Finish-a-long 2019 – Q4, finish 2

This is my final finish from my FAL Q4 list and has only taken me a year and two days to finish!
I've had this quilt top on my list since Q1 and finally it is a completed quilt.
 

The blocks were from a block of the month club and I think they were designed more to learn new techniques than to be used together for a quilt. I framed each block in dark grey and added sashing to make a decent sized quilt. Quilting was simple straight lines in the sashing and either echo or stitch in the ditch for each block as most appropriate.
 

The backing is fleece (which meant the quilting could be light) and the binding is the same dark grey as the block frames.
 

Hopefully Project Linus can now find a suitable home for this quilt.


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Finish-a-long 2019 – Q4, finish 1

My first (and hopefully not last) finish from my FAL Q4 list is the shaker style box I got at last year’s Knitting and Stitching show in Harrogate and which first appeared in my Q2 list.  It had an insert to go in the lid and I needed something to decorate it.
 

 
I had bought a needlepoint kit at Festival of Quilts in the summer with the view to adapting the square pattern to fit the oval shape of the lid. However, while I was still thinking about this, I received a lovely hand embroidered card from a very talented friend and I realisaed that this was a much better starting shape.

(This was taken after I had poked around the edges to see if it would come apart)

By adding a bow and making the stems a little bit longer, the embroidery was just the right shape and size for the lid. I add a couple of layers of quilt wadding to pad the lid and laced the fabric across the back to secure it to the insert. The insert was then fixed to the lid with some double sided sticky tape
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Even though my stitchy contribution to this project was very small, I’m so pleased to have repurposed this embroidery in to something that I will used. I’m planning on keeping sewing essentials (a pair of scissors, a few needles, some pins, and bobbins of threads in useful colours) in it so they are at hand for mending jobs etc so I don’t have to root around in my main sewing box.

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Finish-a-long 2019 - the list for Q4

I completed just two of the six items on my list for for Q3, so for my list for this last quarter I am going with the four uncompleted items and not adding anything new:
 

1. BOM quilt No progress at all during Q1, Q2 and Q3 on this quilt - perhaps its time will come in Q4. My target for this year remains the same - to have it as a completed quilt and donated to Project Linus.
2. Upcycled bag This pure wool jacket from the charity shop remains deconstructed waiting for me to make it to make into a Carter bag.
3. Shaker box I've still no idea as to what I would like to put on it, but I'm still thinking it will probably be something EPP.  Perhaps Q3 will be when the ideal pattern for it appears.
4. Liberty pinwheel quilt I made this quilt top several years ago with a view to turning it into a picnic blanket, but something more suitable came along. I'd quite like to get this finished as a quilt now, maybe using it to practice FMQ as it has large "empty" areas.

Let's see if I can make the effort and get all these finished by the end of the year.

Linking up with 2019 Q4 Finish-A-Long


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