Happy Mothers Day and May BOM!

Happy Mother's Day to all!

I hope you are all having a lovely day.  I am going to take my mum to our local quilt show.  I will be taking photos and do a blog post tomorrow with lots of the quilts and the winners for you.

Now down to the nitty gritty for those following with my Block of the Month this months block is Puss in Corner.  This block evokes memories of playing this game in the shelter sheds at school before the fire burnt them down.

For this month we need 3 fabrics, this is what I have chosen!

But then I changed my mind for the hand piece block and have chosen these.

From your dark fabric you will need to cut 1 X 4.5" square and. 12 X 1 7/8" squares

From your light you will need to cut 4 rectangles 3 1/4" X 4.5" and 8 X 1 7/8" squares

From your medium you will need to cut 4 rectangles  1 7/8" X 4.5"  and 8 rectangles at 1 7/8" X 3 1/4"

We then lay it out like this.

I then place the four patch parts together the outer square and the rectangle to finish the 9 patch variation and then the middle section of rectangles.  Remember to shorten your stitch length as these squares are a lot smaller and you don't want the seams to undo.

We then press the seams to the dark side!

Then we add the medium smaller rectangles to the edge of our four patch like this.

I pressed this to the outside so no seams back on themselves.  I then line the other piece we previously did and sew them to each block and this forms a variation of a 9 patch.

I then sew the middle sections to each other to give 3 rows to make the block

I have pressed the top and bottom seam sections to the centre and the middle section to the outer area of our block.  This all helps in nesting of seams to make a neat matched up block.

And TA DA! One puss in the corner block is complete!  I will do the hand pieced one over the next couple of days.

Here are all of the machined blocks so far together, don't they look great.  

I have loaded a new quilt on to my frame and will start quilting on that one.  I hope I can show you a couple of snippets but unfortunately I will not be able to show you entirely until July.   

I truly hope you have a fabulous Mother's Day and that you enjoy it no matter what you are doing.  Now it is almost time for me to go to the quilt show and see what else I can find and take some good photos.

Until tomorrow's post have a great day.

Wendy

Mothers Day slow stitching Sunday

What a wonderful day I have had today, this Mother's Day.  Managed to get a lovely sleep in.  My youngest daughter was able to come home and spend the day with me.  My eldest daughter had to work so we will catch up on her day off this week.  Once again my girls have spoilt me and given me some lovely hand and body cream with some fantastic shower gel.  The above photo is a progress photo of my love calms the seas quilt.  I am now able to quilt at a reasonable pace so Heather should have her quilt sooner.  She did take another quilt back with her as it is starting to get a bit colder. 

This a photo of my thread keeper, it has a magnet on the top of it which keeps the needles together.  I love to thread all of my needles and then just cut them as I need them.

I thought I would also share a photo of my thumb thimble and my new little threader which my friend Kathi sent to me as a surprise with some fabric.  It makes me smile each time I see it.  I am linking up with Kathy for Slow Stitching Sunday. I would like to wish everyone a happy Mother's Day and I hope it has been special for you and that you can be thankful for the little things in life.  Remember by adding the little things in life we achieve big and wonderful things.

So until next time have a wonderful and fun time,

Wendy