Thursday 15 September 2011

Across The Sea

Across The Sea QAL Top finished!

My weekday mornings always follow the same pattern, chaotic hullabaloo as I get myself and 3 children ready for school, then we walk to nursery and on to school, with me hustling and chiding them along. Once they are all safely deposited at school/nursery, I hurry home, put the kettle on, make some porridge while I tidy the kitchen, get the laundry on, then I settle down at the computer and enjoy my cuppa and porridge whilst I read blogs and stuff. Very often the whole morning disappears before I know it, and it's time to pick up my youngest from nursery again.

Not this morning! Thanks to Hadley's post about her bumper-bonanza-super-sewing-day yesterday I gulped my coffee, scoffed my porridge, switched off the computer, and got out my sewing machine :)

I pulled out my Across The Sea quilt blocks and I managed to get all the blocks sewn together, and both borders on before I went to nursery! I even managed to get a couple of pictures of it before I dashed out the door :)

Across The Sea QAL Top finished!

TaDa!!!

Across The Sea QAL Top finished!


Edited to add:
Fabric is Heirloom by Joel Dewberry, the Ruby Palette bought from the lovely Brenda at Pink Castle Fabric
And Klona Grey bought from the lovely Alice at Backstitch


Thanks Hadley!
Fiona x

18 comments:

  1. Wow. Fiona it is really gorgeous!

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  2. Good for you for switching the computer off - why is it so hard sometimes? I LOVE this colour combo, esp. JD. It works perfectly Fi! Jxo

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  3. So, so beautiful!! Love the Heirloom against the Kona. I'm always amazed at what I can get done when I step away from the computer. Except the next day I usually feel so far behind on my blog/flickr reading that I spend extra time on the computer!

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  4. its lovely, you have good willpower to switch of the computer, i should probably try it more often

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  5. This is going to be a corker when it is finished. Which is not say it isn't a corker now because it is. It'll just be even more of a corker!

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  6. the grey is a perfect background against the colours

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  7. I like yours better than mine. Want to trade?

    And your morning almost exactly mirrors mine. The children morning chaos, get them to school, tidy the kitchen and porridge at the computer - and then that mysterious time shifting thing. Same, same, same!

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  8. Fiona, this is absolutely beautiful! I love the grey with the fabrics you chose. I would be so pleased to make something like this!

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  9. Beautiful, Fiona! I love the grey with the Heirloom.
    I'm planning on a computer free day tomorrow to see if I can achieve anything for a change!

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  10. lol Oh how I recognise that morning mayhem! and the disapearing time, how does that happen! Snigger Snigger! The top is fantastic Fiona! I'm loving Heirloom, it's just so delicious!

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  11. Wow, you work fast!! It looks wonderful - I love the contrast between the grey and the rich crosses, fabulous!

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  12. Ha! Your mornings sound like mine - well my 1 day a week I have at home with the kids! I have to make myself not turn on the laptop if I want to get anything done! I really really love your quilt top, its totally fab!

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  13. The grey looks great with the Heirloom fabric. So lovely... this pattern must go on my "to do" list!

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  14. Gorgeous!!
    Who is this Hadley? She must be amazing! xx

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  15. I love it! I love the grey background, so much that I used it for mine too! It looks great all put together with the borders!

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  16. I LOVE the grey backing fiona! Really makes the heirloom pop!

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  17. Your quilt top looks fantastic, the grey background really shows off the colours in the blocks.

    Next week I'm going to try really hard to get as much sewing done as possible during those golden couple of hours every morning when my youngest is in nursery, instead of losing them to browsing the internet. Switching the computer on is just so tempting though!

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