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Watering the garden

February 25, 2011

I only have two more stitcheries to do. And I’m halfway through the penultimate one. 🙂

Resting in the garden

January 26, 2011

The next stitchery for the Gardener’s Journal quilt is done…it’s called Resting in the Garden.Obviosuly it’s not my garden she’s resting in! But hopefully this will be me by the end of the summer.

I only have 9 more stitcheries to finish and then I can start to quilt. Just need to find the book now!

More stitcheries

January 3, 2011

Not a lot of stitching has been happening on the Gardeners Journal quilt stitcheries recently, but over the holiday period I didn’t feel much like knitting or sewing so I picked them up again.

I managed to do the following 3:

The Garden Shed was stitched on New Years Eve accompanied by some rather splendid red wine. This accounts for the “charmingly” wonky stitching.

I’ve another one in progress at the moment and then I’m about 2/3rds done with them. Good progress, I think.

Before I start I have to say that the pictures don’t do this justice, simply because it’s so big! It’s nearly 70 inches wide and about 80 inches long. Huge!This is An Angels Story Quilt, designed by Anni Downs and made for Button by Ma Stitches.

It is spectacular.

It almost fills the whole wall of her bedroom, which is where it’s staying until she is big enough for it to go on her bed.

It changes the whole look and feel of the room.

And, most importantly, Button absolutely adores it. She pronounced that she was “very excited” about it whilst Daddy was hanging the café rod. She declared it “beautiful” once it was on the wall. My girl has excellent taste!As you can see the appliquéd stitcheries are just lovely. But perhaps the most impressive aspect of this quilt is that it’s the first quilt that Ma has ever made.