Judylou (Judy) in 2017

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1judylou
Dez. 30, 2016, 5:49 pm

It is almost 2017. 2016 has been a good year for me as far as quilting goes. I have improved so much. I now want to go back and replace all the earliest ones I did with something better!

I finally finished that mammoth cross stitch for my Aunt. It took me more than a year. I have now started another one for my son. A Chinese dragon - all yellows and on a black background, which I am finding difficult to work with. But I will persevere.

I am almost finished - just the binding to go - a baby quilt for my nephew's baby, due in a week or so. I will have to wait for the birth to sew in the label and finish the binding.

Here it is before quilting:


I am still going with the 365 challenge. But I am stuck in mid-October. I will finish it next year. For those of you who might be interested she is starting again for 2017. Just sign up on the website.

I made a couple of table runners for Christmas presents and one for myself too.

This is mine, before it was quite finished:



These are the gifted ones:





The photos are not the best. The colours are actually better in real life!

2avaland
Dez. 31, 2016, 5:36 am

You have been busy, Judy! I love the baby quilt. I like the pattern and delicate colors. I haven't made a table runner in ages, but I'm glad to see someone is (I really need to make a new coffee table runner to protect it from Oliver).

Where do you get your ideas, Judy?

3lesmel
Jan. 4, 2017, 12:14 am

The table runners and the baby quilt are lovely! The table runners almost remind me of a braid pattern runner I have been considering taking a run at.

4scaifea
Jan. 4, 2017, 7:36 am

Oh gosh, everything is so lovely! Well done!

5dudes22
Jan. 4, 2017, 5:16 pm

I love making table runners and those are nice ones.

6mabith
Jan. 7, 2017, 1:27 pm

Love the runners and the baby quilt. Great start to the year!

7thornton37814
Jan. 7, 2017, 6:33 pm

Lovely!

8judylou
Jan. 31, 2017, 4:51 pm

Belated thanks for all your comments.
>2 avaland: I am constantly browsing pinterest, library books, magazines and FB groups. That's where my ideas come from.
I am on holidays in South America for about six weeks. So no quilting for me. But I brought a cross stitch kit with me to start working on. It will be interesting to see how much of it gets done.

9avaland
Jan. 31, 2017, 5:21 pm

>8 judylou: You do get around the world, don't you?!

10mabith
Feb. 1, 2017, 9:57 am

Enjoy South America! What countries are you visiting?

11judylou
Mrz. 17, 2017, 1:50 am

Returned from our trip on Monday. We had a wonderful time. We did two cruises with some days before and between on land. We visited Argentina, Uruguay, Falkland Islands, Chile on the first one. Easter Island, Pitcairn Island, Tahiti, Bora Bora, Tonga, NZ and Sydney, ending up at home in Melbourne on the second. The highlights? The Falklands, Easter and Pitcairn Islands. We saw many new places and met many new people. We had a ball!

But then, back to the dishes and dusting and making beds . . . LOL.

And BTW I only managed to do about two inches of the cross stitch while away. There was always so many other things to do!

12dudes22
Mrz. 17, 2017, 12:16 pm

Well - welcome home! That sounds like an awesome trip. I've always been interested in the Easter islands.

13mabith
Mrz. 17, 2017, 10:33 pm

Wow, what a trip!!

14avaland
Mrz. 19, 2017, 6:35 pm

Glad you are back, Judy! No more floating on air (or water), we expect you back to work on your projects, asap (just kiddin')

15judylou
Mrz. 28, 2017, 1:22 am

I am working! I have almost finished a small quilt for a friend's new baby grandson, and I am getting ready to start one for my sister's 60th birthday in May. I also joined a patchwork group which I have only managed to attend once this year, but they are already getting me interested in applique. I think I would like to try it soon.

16avaland
Mrz. 31, 2017, 8:32 am

>15 judylou: I will be very interested in your experiences with the patchwork group. You seem more an extrovert than I. Looking forward to seeing all your projects!

17judylou
Apr. 3, 2017, 1:31 am

I am anything but an extrovert Lois! I have to force myself to go out and meet new people. There is nothing I like better than staying at home all day in my trackies with no makeup on and no one to impress!! And it helps that the women in the group appear to be very welcoming and non threatening. It is a social group more than anything.

18avaland
Apr. 3, 2017, 4:00 pm

>17 judylou: I always must remind myself that extrovert & introvert has to do with how we recharge ourselves, not the amount of social contact. And I should have known better than to make that assumption.

19avaland
Mai 1, 2017, 10:35 am

Happy birthday, Judy!

20judylou
Mai 14, 2017, 7:58 am

No worries Lois. Thanks for the birthday wishes.

I have been busy and neglecting LT lately. I'm hoping to get back into it soon! Now on to have a look at what you have all been up to.

21judylou
Jun. 7, 2017, 8:21 pm

I have managed to almost complete one very simple applique block. I can see now that it is doable - I don't know why I was so frightened of it before. I am also working on the final week's blocks in the 365 Challenge. I can't wait to get them all done now. But even when all the blocks are done, I know there is still going to be a lot of work to do. Many of the blocks will have to be redone or tidied up. Some of them were a bit too difficult for me at the time!

22dudes22
Jun. 7, 2017, 8:50 pm

In was so impressed when you started this. Can't wait until you can show us how it all looks.

23avaland
Jun. 8, 2017, 2:49 am

I'm glad you find the appliqué block doable. And I also look forward to seeing the results.

24avaland
Jul. 5, 2017, 8:44 am

I saw your note on Lesmel's thread about fabric being expensive in Oz...etc and I wanted to tell you that I keep scraps of an old sheet around, plus batting scraps, for me to test machine quilting on. I've been using bits of this one grayish purple sheet for years....

25judylou
Jul. 5, 2017, 7:36 pm

Thanks Lois. I am working up to trying FMQing. It is very daunting to me and I hate to fail! Therefore I am scared to start. But one day I will do it. The old sheet idea is brilliant. Don't know why I didn't think of that myself. Hmmm, might need to clean out the linen cupboard . . . . never know what I might need to get rid of ;O)

26avaland
Bearbeitet: Jul. 8, 2017, 8:48 am

>25 judylou: I started on table runners which are much easier to maneuver. I still have the first one I did and the machine quilting is pretty awful. The advice I got for the first big quilt I did (and this was ages ago) was to sew a grid of wavy lines through the quilt. It turned out all right. The last big quilt I did was a full size and I did it in my favorite random loopy pattern and it was okay, but so difficult to maneuver. I vowed not to do anything larger than a lap quilt after that. I have done designs using the Golden paper mentioned on Lesmel's thread. All that said, I don't think I'll be doing much of my own machine sewing any more (I've moved away from it anyways) due to the neck injury.

If you haven't been told, you'll need a walking foot and a darning foot for your machine.

Are you still with the patchwork group mentioned earlier here on your thread?

27judylou
Jul. 10, 2017, 7:50 pm

>26 avaland: Thanks for the advice. I am working up to starting. But I like to think about it for a while first ;o)

I have both feet. They came with the machine.

I am still going to the group, but even though it is called a patchwork group, it is actually a sit and sew kind of group. So they have encouraged me to start applique, which I did and quite like, but most of them do hexies. Not sure if I will see out the year with them. I am by far the youngest there and I haven't really gelled with any of them (they have been together for many years) but I seem to end up sitting and chatting with the same woman most of the time. Generally she is pleasant, but she drops way too many racist comments for me and I am yet to tell her my husband is a "foreigner". That might be an interesting conversation! Anyway, I'll give it a few more weeks and see how it goes . . .

28avaland
Jul. 11, 2017, 7:21 am

Sounds like you could use a more dynamic group, Judy. That would be an interesting conversation!

The group I'm with is having a "sew-in" for their July meeting (it seems most groups do not meet in July and August, but this one does). I have nothing to work on, so I'm debating about going. I haven't been since before the neck injury.

29judylou
Aug. 3, 2017, 8:40 pm

I have just relearned how to post photos, so here is an update on what I am doing currently.



A very starry quilt for my friend turning 60. She likes "stars, purple and green". I think I covered all that!

30judylou
Aug. 3, 2017, 8:42 pm



My mother started this for her sister. She gave up - all the white on white did her in. So I had to unpick a fair bit - it was all out of whack - but now getting stuck into it and it will be finished by the time I next visit her.

31judylou
Aug. 3, 2017, 8:45 pm



Another baby quilt. But this time I have been doing applique for the first time. I put it together with some patchwork pieces and I think it looks good. I have to get going on the applique though, before I can put it all together.

32Lyndatrue
Aug. 3, 2017, 9:15 pm

>30 judylou: This is beautiful work. I can no longer handle the white on white myself (it's a terrible thing to get old), but I can still admire it. Truly beautiful.

33lauralkeet
Aug. 4, 2017, 6:32 am

They are all beautiful, but the star quilt is my favorite. I just love the way the colors play together.

34scaifea
Aug. 4, 2017, 6:57 am

Oh, whoa. Everything here is gorgeous! I especially love the colors in >29 judylou: .

35lesmel
Aug. 4, 2017, 9:26 am

I love the baby quilt in >31 judylou: Those birds are so perfectly adorable!

36dudes22
Aug. 4, 2017, 6:27 pm

I started a cross stitch picture while on a plane to see my husband in Germany back in 1998. I worked on it while visiting him for a couple of weeks and was going great on it. It was an alphabet with a girl & a rabbit in the middle. The white rabbit did me in - I couldn't get past it and finally got did of it when I was going through stuff before we moved this year. I kept thinking I'd go back to it. I love the purple and green star quilt. The contrast within the stars is great!

37avaland
Aug. 7, 2017, 11:09 am

>29 judylou: I love those colors, Judy!! What a use of stars!

>30 judylou: Love the kookaburras, too!

>31 judylou: The baby quilt is wonderful, too.

YOU ARE ON A ROLL!

38judylou
Sept. 28, 2017, 1:40 am

My apologies, but I have lost the thread with the instructions for loading photos here. I thought I remembered, but no. If anyone can please set me straight again I would be most appreciative :O)

39lesmel
Bearbeitet: Sept. 28, 2017, 9:16 am

>38 judylou:

1. Upload photo to a hosting site (Flickr, LT gallery, etc)
2. Copy the address of the image (right click on the image and choose "copy image address")
3. In your post, enter <img src="copiedimageadress.jpg" /> where copiedimageaddress.jpg is the address you copied from step 2.

For example:

<img src="https://pics.librarything.com/picsizes/94/ce/94ce5bc88096c3c636c474a6a41434b41716b42.jpg" />

Produces:



If the image is huge(ish), you can add either width="" or height="" with a number (something between 100 and 400, usually does the trick) in the img tag to shrink it up. You don't need to add px or em b/c browsers are usually smart enough to know what the measurement is.

<img src="https://pics.librarything.com/picsizes/94/ce/94ce5bc88096c3c636c474a6a41434b41716b42.jpg" height="200" />

Produces:

40judylou
Okt. 1, 2017, 7:30 pm

Thank you so much! I will try again.

41judylou
Bearbeitet: Okt. 1, 2017, 7:33 pm



It worked!

42judylou
Bearbeitet: Okt. 3, 2017, 7:23 pm



I have been knitting these little octopus (octopi) for my friend's premmie granddaughter. She was born 8 weeks early but is doing very well.

43judylou
Bearbeitet: Okt. 3, 2017, 7:24 pm



And here is the quilt made for the same little baby girl. My first try at applique. It didn't go too badly, so I am about to start a new applique project. It is a William Morris style and I will make it in fairly traditional colours.

44avaland
Okt. 3, 2017, 2:13 pm

Larger, please! height="400" is good.

45judylou
Okt. 18, 2017, 6:10 pm

Looking back, I guess I now have to work out how to rotate the photos now!

I have started knitting again. I've finished a simple garter stitch baby jacket which just needs to be sewn up - my least favourite part - and started another garter stitch baby cardigan. A local shop has wool 50% off today, so I will go and find some more pretty colours to knit up.

I have just finished a series of cross stitches to go in the baby's room - grey, teal and pink are the colours of choice for Megan and the baby to come.

I have finished one quilt - just ready for binding (have to wait until the baby is born to add the binding as I sew the label into the binding); have started one with butterfly blocks, but not sure how to proceed with that so have put it aside while I start another one with cat blocks.

From always being determined to have only one project at a time, I now find myself with many on the go. Oh well, at least I'm never bored!

Anyway, will take some photos soon.

46avaland
Okt. 18, 2017, 8:58 pm

Busy, busy woman! I hope you will post pics of your baby cardigans and cross stitch projects...and, of course, the baby quilt.

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