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Comfort Stitching's Half Hexagon Quiltalong part five

comfort stitching quiltalong part five

This week I sewed the eighteen strips together.

sewing strips together

I did this over a few days and I scrupulously pinned each block so that the joins would be accurate. Mostly I was in luck, I think I only had to redo a couple of joins.

pinning

I agree with Aneela who said usually a gentle tug of the top or with me the bottom strip would usually make the seams abut. I think when I have done a few more of these I will not need to pin as much as I did this time.

lots of pinning going on

I was unsure whether to go with a rectangular quilt which would establish more of a pattern but I really want to use this as a tablecloth for a circular table so I did not need it to be any larger. I toyed with the idea of adding a dark narrow border and another floral border but am going with the simplicity of the top as it is. I scrupulously snipped off all my threads and pressed the seams in the direction they were sewn. Aneela advises pressing the seams open but I do not think my hands are up to that so am hoping to hide the seams with the quilting.

Aneela and others were at this stage at week four. Now on to the sandwiching and quilting!

Only one day to go until I draw the winners to the giveaways!

Time to Create

craft storage corner

 

Wouldn’t it be fabulous to create in this space?

Photo from Joyful Lova on flickr, click photo to see her photostream

Thrift Finds Olga and Maria

Olga Berg for Thrift Finds Tuesday TFT

My lovely Olga Berg bag and Hush Puppy shoes were found in a local charity shop. I am looking forward to wearing them this winter and am planning my wardrobe around them and this week’s other lovely finds. The Olga Berg bag was twenty dollars and is brand new as are the HushPuppies which were ten dollars.

Below are my other wonderful  finds, a  Maria Gallanti patchwork leather handbag and Rivers red suede loafers which go so beautifully with my necklace which I found last year. The shoes were six dollars, brand new and the bag fifteen dollars, again brand new. The necklace last year was ten dollars. It is by Nikita.

Marina Gallanti

Love That Rhubarb Patch

Leafy Rosy Quilt

Friday’s Flickr find is old favourite of mine, Anita of Rhubarb Patch on flickr and Blooming Workshop on WordPress. Anita has the most amazing photostream where she not only shows us her work as it progresses [wips]

Quilt Sandwich 3
she also has the most wonderfully creative way of showcasing her completed quilt tops and quilts. This is just a tiny glimpse into the wonders of her photostream. She is also a lover of Kaffe Fassett’s work and in my opinion is one of the best interpreters of his work…part from Sally that is

Purple Coneflowers

 

Update and More Tears

I have had a talk with a lawyer friend of mine and he said that when I was given the bag of fabric it was legally a gift free and clear so I was within my legal rights to take it and keep it if so desired. So obviously there was no way that what was said to me in that shop was appropriate or even based on legal principles. As long as I know that  I think I can live with this now, without an apology and as long as my husband is not brought into it or mistreated. I know I cannot win anything here without my husband suffering for it and this is unacceptable to me. He does far more good for this charity than any other manager I believe and has even been given an entry in who’s who here for the amazing turnaround he brought to the charity’s flagship store. I am saddened deeply by this matter especially since my son saw me weeping yesterday when I heard that my husband had been spoken to  repeatedly about this matter yesterday, while I was not contacted at all. This was my issue as a customer and I feel like I was treated like a naughty and dishonest worker and then shunned. Surely if I had been seen as a customer at some stage they would have listened to what I was really saying. I did speak with the next person up the chain….who took the same tack at first, you know why did I accept it….well duh…cause they throw it away otherwise. After some discussion he said he would ensure that my husband was kept out of it…he thought he was anyway he said. I asked him after that conversation to put what he did say in writing but am not confident he will because doing so would be an admission of some sort and would really upset customers. I know better than to expect that now but my husband is really angry about how I was treated as is my son and though we cannot say much publicly about this I am not so sure CJ will keep quiet as he is a writer and is absolutely livid about this. I was even thinking of all those whistle blower cases and how they end up…we had a little taste of it today and as I have serious health issues and David is grieving about his mother’s amputation and  impossible state of health I just cannot take this any further. I am just not strong enough. thank you so much for your wonderful support…it has helped me so much to know that you too are outraged. Below is a small selection of the splendors of this fabric. There was fifty five odd metres in the end….and there was enough of the silk to make curtains and full length gowns.

Charity shop gives away over fifty metres of silk and other designer fabrics

Charity gives away over fifty metres of silk and other designer fabrics

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