Wintersweet Quilt in Summer

I love Jo's style over at Frankie and Ray. I have made three of her patterns now. My Wintersweet quilt is done!

It's a great pattern for using every fabric that exists on your shelf. I have included an old serviette of my Gran's and a printed gingham that my Gran's cousin gave me. I tried to go for contrast in each block - in terms of light(ish) and dark(ish) or contrast in size of print.

I was struck when quilting it how green it turned out. It's hard not to use green!

It ended up being quilted with five different threads. As I used up one, I started another. As usual, I used wool for the batting. It's backed with a woven gingham. (I love gingham at the moment.) Four fabrics were used in the binding. The paisley in the binding is from my paisley phase around 2009.

My other Frankie and Ray quilts are the Blue and Gold Blanket Bay -

and two Aunt Bet's quilts -

Wintersweet Quilt

While the wool quilt sits STILL waiting to be unbasted, I have started a new one.

It is Frankie and Ray's Wintersweet quilt. It's made up of a series of churn and dash blocks and 9 patch blocks.

I have just one block left to make for the outer border. Well, to re-make. Maybe this week. I look forward to quilting it over the Christmas break.

I also wanted to do a house fix update. While I was away in the first week of October, the concrete was finally laid. This was a long time coming. For months I had been parking up the drive and putting my gumboots on to get across the mud. I think it rained all but six days for the whole of August and September this year.

Before - This was on a pretty good day and after some of the shingle had been laid for the concrete. For at least two months, it was a bog. I had planks that I walked on from the front door, past a skip bin and onto the drive. I would change out of my gumboots at the car.

The painter is still working a couple of days a week, so while the kitchen and laundry are finished I haven't moved any furniture in.

Before - and it got so much worse than this during the process.

I think this is when the flea infestation started!

After -

The painting inside should be finished by the end of this week. The tiler will then come back to grout the backsplash and silicon seal where tiles meet walls. The 'blind' lady is coming Tuesday afternoon. It'll be nice to get some furniture back in so it's less echo-y and I can sit in the room. Roll on the Christmas break!