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Trick or Treat?

Here is wishing you a Happy Halloween with this Lollipop Candy block. Candylicious?

Don’t forget to check in tomorrow for the block pattern! Meanwhile, have a scary,  spooky day.

A Bouquet of Beautiful Blooms!

It is a lovely rainy day today here in Jaipur – the monsoon is in its full glory!

To add to the cheer, here are some lovely dahlias – and a lotus!

Devi Nair's purple and orange Dahlia
Purple and orange Dahlia by Devi Nair
Prabha Mathew's yin and yang!
Prabha Mathew’s blue and gold beauty
Anuradha ramesh - Lime and purple
Anuradha Ramesh’s purple with a pop of lime
Pink lotus by Jaya Parker
Jaya Parker’s pink lotus!

If your Dahlia is not featured here, it is because I have not received the necessary go-ahead from you!

Meanwhile, there are many more Dahlias at the budding stage – am waiting eagerly to see the full bloom!

There is something very special coming up here soon – a guest blog by Jaya Parker, who discovered a technique to piece the dahlia without any paper piecing – using just strips! I am not giving away anything more – only telling you that her method is so easy, that I am inspired to make a king size quilt of dahlia blocks!

So do keep tuned in!

Just takes 2 – progress for today…

Completed this block today, adding the triangles…

Just takes 2 Quilt Block 29
Just takes 2 Quilt Block 29

And this – it was foundation pieced! I did the y-seams by hand.  Probably need to rip the bottom right corner, and re-sew it!  The pieces were already cut and yet it took more than four hours to construct! I am tired 🙁 And I hate paper foundation piecing – keep getting confused  how the next piece will be sewed on! Next time, shall English paper piece. Equally accurate and less taxing on my ageing brain.

Just takes 2 Block 40
Just takes 2 Block 40

Decided to clean the blocks of stray threads and iron them when I am ready to join them!

What I did not submit for the March Quilting Challenge – finished!

Last month I got my new  Brother, who I am still to get used to loving. Having used a gentle, elderly (she is all of 76 years old!) hand-cranked Singer all these years,  it is not easy getting accustomed to the brash new  baby – who runs when I ask it to walk .   Anyways, I decided I would devote  November and December to UFOs (unfinished objects) so that I could start the new year with a fresh slate. And get to know the new family member better!

One of the few UFOs I managed to complete was this from March. (Blogged about here)

Table top - kaleidoscopic block
Table top  using kaleidoscopic quilt block

This is my first quilting on the Brother; I did not have the walking foot, so I have used the regular foot.

There are many things I do not like about this – firstly the red binding! I also hate the machine sewing in blue on the binding – it sticks out like a sore thumb 🙁

But what really makes me cringe is the back!

Back of quilted top for wound table - UGLY!
Back of quilted top for round table – UGLY!
Kaleidoscope quilt block table top
Kaleidoscope quilt block table top – unquilted!

I did like it much better unquilted.

 I would love to give it away, but am going to keep it – as a reminder of how bad I was, when I (hopefully!) become better.