These were the scallops as I was counting them into sets (groups of 30 scallops - 12 for the shorter borders, 18 for the longer ones).
I've used my cool colour scraps - and it's lovely to see part of an old dress, fabric I used on the girls pushchair, a little from the very first set of FQs that I bought.....all sorts of delights from my quilting life!
The top row are machine appliqued, the missing row is on the sewing machine, and the two bottom rows are waiting for their turn for the zig zag process.
This week hasn't been a week with much time for sewing -but I have cleared out / boxed up a lot of my sewing space (which is also library and study as well as general dumping ground, it turns out!) and been looking after my DH who is rather immobile following an op on his foot. More of the same for the next week, I think, although we'll have a better routine in place, so I'm hoping I'll carve out a bit more sewing time again.
Hope that you are finding time to enjoythe things that you love too!
This looks very nice and I am eager to see the progress of it!
ReplyDeleteWhat adorable little scallops! Isn't it always fun to go through our leftover fabrics and remember where we've used those fabrics before?
ReplyDeleteLoking lovely Plum. Good to see you this morning as I zoomed past!
ReplyDeleteoooh, they look interesting! I love the one with the elephant on it! At first I thought these were going to be 3d scallops, that you'd sewn 2 right sides together and turned and were catching them in the seam. I suppose that would be very floppy though!
ReplyDeleteI lost one of my jobs and thought oh yay! I can do more sewing now. Somehow it's not happened. Hopefully soon I will get to where I am at least working on something every day and for more than a few minutes in a day.
ReplyDeleteI think this is why I love scrap quilts so much, the memories each bit of fabric brings. Look forward to seeing it all done.
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Hi Plum I also get a thrill out of having little piles of per paired pieces of appliqué when making a quilt. I'm doing that with my LE that Esther has designed. It is slow but so satisfying. Yours look so lovely with lots of memories too. Cheers Glenda
ReplyDeleteOh Plum your scallops are such a satisfying sight to my eyes, I have just been thinking of my own scallop box which I should really WIP up one of these days and here you are, making your own fabulous creation...I already love it!
ReplyDeleteHow satisfying to reuse those "memory fabrics" - be sure to pass on their stories, write some on labels on the back maybe?
ReplyDeleteI've not done a design with scallops so this looks interesting. How lovely to have the memories in the fabrics too. I hope your husband continues to improve too.
ReplyDeleteThis scallop design would be nice to sew some day!
ReplyDeleteI'm intrigued- I think I can work out what you're doing but I've not seen it done like that before!
ReplyDeleteI love the look of this! Very fun!
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