1st SAL.....Peg, Dale and I committed to stitching Anni Downs - A Gardener's Journal in March. I blogged about this on my blog thinking maybe one or 2 others may join us and lots of girls indicated an interest so I decided to start this blog where we can all encourage each other to meet the goals set along the way....March 2010 -March 2011...........
2nd SAL ......well so many of the girls wanted to continue on with another project and some new girls joined us and now approx 91 girls are stitching Natalie Bird's Tis the Season. March to Sept 2011...............
3rd SAL....many girls want to stick with the SAL so now we have moved onto Anni Downs Some Kind of Wonderful - My Favourite Things Quilt.......Oct 2011-Oct 2012.........
Where are we now.....
4th SAL 2013...is numerous smaller projects from the previous 2 books Tis the Season and Some Kind of Wonderful plus some projects from Red Home by Natalie Bird approx 60 ladies stitching together.........
2014 we had the year off..............
5th SAL 2015..........inspired to continue we are doing another quilt project.....Anni Downs newest quilt Natures Journey.....
6th SAL 2017.............A Holly Cottage Christmas by Michelle Ridgway.......once again the pattern is in an affordable book so it is easy for everyone to join in...........and you can raid your stash for the fabrics........or lash out and buy a the whole lot........this SAL will be run by Fiona aka Bubz Rugz and Raewyn........
Chookyblue........

Sunday, January 6, 2013

First finishes for SAL…

This is the first time I have joined Chooky and Friends at SAL. I am looking forward to working on all the projects from the three lovely books…
I have SKOW but had to order “Tis a Season” and “Red Home”. Hope they arrive soon.
 Even though I don’t have the book I was able to make the Thread catcher by looking at how Chooky made hers…


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Also pleased to have completed my Shoe Bag from the SKOW book…

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Happy Stitching
Hugz  Maria

11 comments:

Susan said...

Beautiful choice of fabrics Maria..It's great to have you as a member of the SAL. Happy Sewing with us.

Quilt Kitty said...

Your a clever one accomplishing that without a pattern. Last night & today in the cave were very productive. Tracee xx

Anonymous said...

well done Maria,they look great.xx

Maria said...

I've done the tick,thanks Susan....

Fiona said...

Lovely shoebag... hope the books come soon... my red home arrived yayayya
Hugz

Solstitches said...

That's a very pretty shoe bag and well done for making the basket without even having the pattern. It looks great.
Margaret

Simone Harding said...

Very nice fabrics for the shoe bag and thread catchers

laura said...

Your thread catcher colors are right on trend. Looks great.

Joy McD said...

Very pretty fabrics! I think I need to make a shoe bag too.. it is so sweet!

Wendy said...

Such a cute thread catcher and your shoe bag is lovely as well. Really like you fabric choices.

Noela said...

Great to have both finished Maria. They are beautiful. Hugs...