HQAL: Tori’s Quilt

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Continuing to work on my quilt for my granddaughter Tori aka Torance 🙂 I am ready to update for our three week posting.

In my last post I had completed 5 out of 16 blocks and for this posting I have added 4 more blocks making a total of 9 blocks – more than half way there 🙂 With all the blocks basically the same there isn’t much visual change. I’ll just add the 9 block picture of now.

Last time I shared my new passion – junk journals. I have been fiddling around with some ideas, working on a Christmas jj for a friend. I made a simple quilted cover for this one. It’s funny how when you look at your work in pictures you can really begin to critique and see what you could have done. I quilted around the bird and the single leaf under the bird button. Wow – what if I had quilted all the green leaves – that would have been better. It’s already glued in place and no changing it now. What I am going to do is create an entire quilted cover for my next try 🙂

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  the book is bound in red sari ribbon, along the spine is a piece of fabric that has been torn and glued in place.

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  you can see a hint of of the batting on the edging of the simply quilted sandwiched panel. It looks like the birds are sitting on a bed of snow.

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  Made out of two lunch paper bags, there are 6 main pages in the journal plus 12 page journal writing space.

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  Showing only 4 of the pages the snowglobeman is on top of one of the journaling pages.

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  Pinned to a page are 2 goody bags and peaking out of another page is a cute paper doll cut out from ‘thegraphicsfairy.com’

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  I have stashed all kinds of fun ephemera into the pocket tucks.
  

I always look forward to checking in with everyone in the group to see the progress on their creations. Won’t you join me by clicking on the links below. Wishing everyone well

Hand Quilt Along Links

This Hand Quilt Along is an opportunity for hand quilters and piecers to share and motivate one another. We post every three weeks, to show our progress and encourage one another.  If you have a hand quilting project and would like to join our group contact Kathy at the link below.

Kathy, Margaret, Deb, Nanette, Sharon, Karrin, and Daisy