well done us!

Three different results!
Three very different quilts...and so interesting! wow.
Cant wait till the next one.hehehe and we are all starting early right? right yeah right!

Perhaps I am stronger than I think - Thomas Merton, That made me started to think about how you can see the strength inside people. Of course you can't see the strength and that leads onto where does your inner strength come from - head or heart?? My quilt does look a bit simple (doesn't help when I didn't start until Sunday night) but it was hard to put onto quilt what was in my head!!!
Roll on next month - I have got the word ready and got a head start (all of a day) so get up early and see what July brings.

Strength - In your head or heart?

Ta Da!!

Here it is!!.

When I thought of the word strength 'sisterhood' is the word that came to mind!

When you are sad, happy, in need of a sympathetic ear, someone to share good or bad or sad news with it's usually a friend, sister, mother we share it with.

My quilt background is crazy patchwork with athell colours of emotion included. Also from the bottom left hand corner where life starts to the top right hand corner to where life ends are materials that have the colours of stages of life in them. And across all this are four 'sisters' who are there throughout your life to encourage, listen, laugh/cry with you...all the time giving you the strength you may not have in yourself to face the challenges of life. And yes you are right, I haven't done the binding yet.

But...I am rapt with this quilt, I'm tempted to hang it on the wall of my office!!

Sorry to keep you waiting

Hi there. Wow Bev what a beautiful little quilt! I am amazed at how differently we interpret the word...isn't that a great thing, imagine if we all made the same thing!! I am just waiting for my camera battery to charge(thanks kids) then I will get my picture on here.

closer

the front

I began by trying to make a list of the strongest things......and they kept coming back to triangles which I think I recall being the strongest shape...so I looked for a pattern using triangles.I have always wanted to make a kliedescope quilt so I did. Although the photos look bluish it is actally all greys....because I wanted to add in Diamonds (treasure) which was the strongest element when I went to school....now of course there are harder things! I looked at the cutting of diamonds..often in triangle shapes and intended to quilt a cutting diagram over the top. Unfortunately my idea was greater than my skill so I have settled for diamond shapes in metallic thread....I hope the photos will show the sparkle!

Cheers.....

The back

The verse on the back is
A Faithful Friend is a strong defense and he that hath found one hath found a Treasure.

Also last Sunday my first great-nephew was Christened and the bishop(FEMALE!) talked about strength...2Timothy 4;16-18 and I have noted that event on the quilt.
And the backing fabric is all triangles....which also are the basis of the front!

strength

heres a little taster!

The back! And the sign that I have yet to master quilt photography

chill

Stop and breathe deeply..I said 3/4 of the TOP ...I wanted to handquilt it and still have to sandwich etc etc.No stress...we still have another day and a bit.Its meant to be fun! And we both know we work better under pressure.....

I nearly had a heart attack when I read your post Bev saying you were 3/4 finished. I want to cry. I"M STARTED!!! but that is it. Had Steph for the weekend and it goes so quick, Kate and I went to the netball today at challenge stadium and that was about it.

oh my

This is sort of fun..... I am about 3/4 finished the top of mine and all of a sudden it is working....well I thought so but the boys cant see it. But I am happy.

it is reveal day next Tuesday

It doesn't seem like a whole month has gone past - well almost. And like every month I say i'll start earlier next month and this time of the month comes and i'm still not further ahead than last month!!! But a break through happened today - I know what I am doing and how (which is the important part), and now just have to do it. And only have a few days to do it and at the same time think of a topic for next month!! It is all happening

still nothing

I still cant start....my mind is mush.
Today was going to be a sewing day..have the machine the fabric and the space....but its just not happening..yet. I watched a movie..Chocolat ...first Jonny Depp I liked! I ve threaded the machine and reread my notes and looked at the fabrics.Now I decided to have lunch and START in half an hour.
God give me STRENGTH!
Bev...I need a kick up the you=know=where!

Well another week gone by, 1 week closer to the reveal and I haven't got much idea yet. Long hard thinking ahead for me!!!!

Would you like to see our quilts in real? We could send them over with Ryan. Bev's quilting looks way better in real life. When we went to the quilt show she brought some 'Razzle, Dazzle and Shine' (3 different sorts of threads) it looks so good. It is thicker - like crochet cotton - and you wind it onto the bobbin and quilt from the back side. Very impressed. Of course I didn't buy any threads!!

We have become philosophical!!!!

Frances de Sales:
Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.