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 I am so happy that I have managed just a little sewing this week despit my injury. Not much really but 3 more paper piecing blocks are finished.

One more thimble

One Mini Alphabet block, the only one so far...

and a mini tea cup block

Can you believe that there are 13 pieces of fabric in this piece?

Linking to Design Wall Monday,  Midweek Makers, Wednesday Wait Loss, Needle and Thread Thursday, Put your foot down, Brag about your Beauties, Off the wall Friday, Patchwork and Quilt

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 Not much sewing time again the last 2-3 weeks and this has mainly be due to lack of time/too much work... I had completed the train block but wasn't happy with it so I unpicked it and remade it this week. 

I also started on the top row "Harry Potter" and had spent quite some time 2 week-ends ago cutting the pieces with little fabric to spare... only to realise that I had only cut out "Harry"...

This block is actually half of the top ...

 Very slowly I am making progress on my Harry Potter UFO. I finished Hogwarts crest at the week-end, just in time for the Quidditch tournament that was held in our town!

One more block for the top but quite a few still to go! Hopefully soon as I am happy to be able to report that I have managed 5 days of sewing this last week, a great improvement after I didn't manage more than one day a week for the whole of February.

Linking to Life in Pieces, Design Wall Monday, Midweek Makers, Wednesday Wait Loss, Happy ...

 A break from bag making! Some time ago, while I was going through my UFOs etc, I digged out the blocks for my Impromptu Quilt, with the aim to finish the top to send it for quilting. The top finishes at 90'' square so it is too big for my own frame and after sending my Flabellum for quilting, I thought it would be a good idea to send this one too. The only problem was that

1) the top wasn't anywhere near ready to go

2) I am pressed with time with the house move

Anyway, Kerry kindly ...

 In 2016, I joined the Modern HST quilt-along with Alyce. I didn't quite follow through but eventually caught up with the blocks in January 2019. I had all but one block done and a problem: I didn't have enough background fabric left for the last block. 

I searched online, ordered some, my order was cancelled because the fabric was out of stock. I launched an appeal online but never got any reply. So I was stuck with 23 blocks, not sure what to do to finish it off. 

Last top finished, first one quilted? Well yes! That was not the original plan but since I ran out of thread for my bear on Saturday night, I figured I should take it off the frame and replace it with another quilt for which I had enough thread to last the week-end! So on came the Retro Tetro quilt top.

For this one, I had planned to use same colours as the fabric, which of course, meant changing threads very often! I used an all-over quilting motif for the top and used up so many bobbins.     

I really like how ...

When the Halo Quilt Along was announced back in March, I had all intentions to join in with the fun. I ordered the book, printed the template and set on using my stash of Liberty fabrics. But I worked on other projects and never got started...