Rising star

Memories from July 2013...........

Just 9 years ago I started this quilt...........this was the fabric pull made at my Cottage on the Hill  Retreat....post here and here.......It was going to be 4 stars but I have a tall son even then so I decided to make it longer by making 6 stars.............it was going to go on a king single bed but drought delayed that and then we were given a queen bed...........

the quilt got forgotten about and suddenly in 2016 according to this post I got the top together......

and I thought afterwards that maybe I should have added another row of stars so it would fit the bigger bed..............oh too late I would have had to unpick all the squares surrounding the blocks and I was happy with what I had that was that...............into the pile of finished tops it went to wait...........

But as you know a few months ago I started the crazy binding faze and sent off some more tops for quilting.......these are now all completed..........plus the one I did for Fairy Girl last week so that's 16 quilts finished this year.........besides this one I need to show you 6 more.......I need to get some photos done...........I just used Mr Chooky today on the Chookshed deck as it was easy and this quilt wasn't to big to hold up............

you can see some of the quilting here..............

My absolutely favourite colour combination........in the perfect tones too.............

these blocks are 24inchs

And here it is.........all grown up and ready to keep someone warm............

I finished it today in my short zoom session.......a couple popped in....

it was nice to talk to someone but OMG I was busted after that.......

do something then go lay down again.........

Quilt details

Name Rising Star

Pattern Rising Star by Anka's Treasures book Angles with Ease

Started July 2013

Completed 2022

Range mixed

Size 88x 60in

Quilted by Betty Field

Today I moved back into the house..........seems a little weird as I have not been in for nearly 2 weeks with being away for work prior to getting covid.......

Very sad to have spent so much time in the Chookshed and basically sewn nothing..........

Just laid there and looked at fabric, quilts, books etc

have a great week......

Catch you later........

Chookyblue.......

the saga continues......

Terrible photos of this quilt..... The colours are so wrong but besides that in my clean up while on leave I dug this quilt out...... Pops it on the board....... It's looking very scrappy i know when it got out away something was going wrong when I was joining the rows so I needed to unpick some blocks but but but I can't remember what was wrong so I will need to put the pattern out and see that the blocks were right to start with.........

But........ 

There was a corner missing.......I searched high and low.... Pulled all the fabric together that I knew were part of this quilt........I could not find the corner.......I had even taken the scraps near these fabrics inside to sort thru and iron in the hope I found the missing pieces......But nothing......

Fast forward a month and a memory came up in my photos.......

hhhmmmmmm 2013 or 2009 I can't remember.....

I was so excited to see this...... The colours are a little better....... Maybe not as creamy in the background.......

Look at the photo.......

Yep a corner is missing...... Yes just flip the photo but mystery solved.......

The corner was missing way back when.......

So I have stopped looking.......

I will need to make sure I can find enough of the background but I can find other fabrics to make two corners.......

Separately

I had also lost some work clothes...... 

Turns out I put them away in a new spot.......

Not coping with being organised..... Lol

I did get a binding finished last night so Rose Marie will be happy I met the challenge.......That's great...... I'll try finish the last two today to meet the goal for July........ As I can hand stitch while I'm chatting to the old folks.........

I've done something I haven't done for ages...... connected the TV up so I can watch some of the Commonwealth Games...... Anyone else watching?????

Trying to get some more churn dash blocks finished..... While I'm making progress I may not make July by my time....... Might by the time the last  USA time zone comes around......

Rain is forecast this week so that will be nice but I need to get lots of other stuff done before I head away for the night........

Have a great Sunday......

Chookyblue......

Ta da......

once I got the post visitor jobs done and the last blog post I put the sewing machine to work........

I had a goal..........to get my quilt top together.....

TA DA...........

yet to decide on a name or if I am adding any more borders............I started it at Cottage on the Hill @ Nundle at my 2014 retreat 2013 retreat.........

link here.........

The pattern is Rising Star by Anka's Treasures........

Found in her book Angles with Ease.........

I love her patterns...........

Also whipped up a design board............

Well that's the wrap for the weekend............

THANKYOU EVERYONE so very much for joining in the fun...........I've still got to visit all your posts to see what you have done but I am heading to bed shortly.............those girls are all night owls and I stayed up WAY to late every night..... 

I am so blessed to have the Chookshed something I never ever thought I would achieve.........so it is an absolute delight to be able to share it with friends I made thru blogging both in person and online is very special.............

Keeping the love of blogging alive...... 

Chookyblue.....

I will get these triangles right ....................

I will get these triangles right......I will get these triangles right.......I will get these triangles right.........I will get these triangles right......I will get these triangles right......I will get these triangles right....I will get these triangles right......I will get these triangles right........I will get these triangles right.........I will get these triangles right......I will get these triangles right.......I will get these triangles right.....I will get these triangles right.........I will get these triangles right....I will get these triangles right.........I will get these triangles right..........  

3rd time lucky........Thanks Heather...(she must think I am a complete idiot along with the rest of you).....I have moved the ruler slightly to the right so you can see the dotted line that is what I am supposed to line up with...........

 The rectangle cuts as they finally should be.........fortunately I had only cut one set  (the second wrong way) and I have plenty of fabric............

 

We went for a drive today to the movies...............it's the only thing Fairy Girl really wanted to do in the holidays so today was the day............a fun kids movie.........poor child hasn't been to the movies much because she sat in the seats and said I feel like I should put my seatbelt on.....lol.......

Oh and have worked out how to get the reverse stitching done on my quilt..............an itunes gift voucher and Fairy girl.........fair payment I would say as I would throw the quilt in a corner or leave it hanging on the wall and not get it finished...........she has unpicked 2 of 9 rows.....so I will start constructing from the bottom..............

thinking of a name for my quilt.............Cosmo maybe turn into "Omsoc" (reverse)

.........take care til next time.....Chookyblue.........

the good and the bad.............

so lets start with the bad.......I need to do some reverse stitching.....

see the pic below..............I missed part of the cutting directions because when I cut half triangles from rectangles I do it like the right side of the pic.............what I needed to do was the left side of the pic...............
edit: yep that was wrong too see my next post

wouldn't think it would make so much difference but look below....the correct one is on top.....

quite a different shape..........

 it means this pic would then look straight across the top (sorry pic on side) instead of weird angles that look like they need to be trimmed.............

What I should have done is email Heather and ask 2 days ago instead of last night.........

my mistake not hers but she helped me work out where I had gone wrong..........

But the good news is I now have a new laptop.............my connection to the world we share.......so life online will get back to normal doing everything the way I normally do it...........and I can open all my own files and pics etc.......all my logins work...........LOVE IT........and now I even managed to get the printer working wireless which I could never get going before................

 Yummy Sausages for dinner in the slow cooker.............my recipe here

.........take care til next time.....Chookyblue.........

Cosmo progress........

4 (2x2) rows together..........another 5 to go....

.....it's a slow process adding all the strips in between....and I hadn't added all the centres squares so doing some of those as I go too.............

.........take care til next time.....Chookyblue.........

Cosmo quilt.........

Now remember this pic........well it's the book and ruler I have been working with making the quilt on the front cover........."Cosmo" by Anka's Treasures

Sandy and I have been working on this quilt for the last few days........well the truth is she found out I finally had started cutting and temptation was too great she had to get going too........but she has caught up and got ahead of me I think............

cutting the blocks.......... 

Piecing.......... 

 

2 triangle units joined together..............

 star backgrounds.....trimming i think........
EDIT should not look like below.......should be straight.......across

this was my progress last night.............i've got some more centres in the stars and worked others out and removed the 2nd block down on the right - it's bugging me........ I like the fabrics but they just weren't working in the quilt..........

Had some soup for lunch at 2pm and back out to the chookshed.......trying to get a row or 2 pieced........

Check out Sandy's @ Shiralee's Stitches progress (completely different colourway) and yes Sandy I am impressed you were able to follow our instructions to do a post from your phone........that should fix the blog silence............

Also is anyone else working on any quilts from this book...........

.........take care til next time.....Chookyblue.........

Yippee......

Well I have been waiting for the mailman..............when you only get mail delivered twice a week and it rains and he doesn't even come 3 mail runs your bursting to get to the post office...........

I knew this parcel would be there waiting for me...........

As soon as I saw this I wanted it............

Heather Mulder Peterson aka Anka's Treasures

And you need this ruler to go with the patterns in the book...........

I got it from my gorgeous blog mate Sandy @ Shiralee Stitches...(locally)......

that is the cutest little tag............

She's stocking this book and some of Anka's patterns..........

Can't wait to get into a block or two.............i love the quilt on the front cover..........

I'll let you know if I love or hate the ruler..........

Catch you later

Chookyblue

PS another chilly day even with the sun shining.........the winds must be coming from Antartica...........