Farmers Wife Sampler Quilt

I have just bought the book for the Farmers Wife Sampler Quilt (FWSQ) and plan for it to be a long term scrap quilt project probably taking many years to complete! I chose to do this one as lots of ladies here do the 'Dear Jane' quilt and I wanted to be a bit different.
Today I have finished the first block. I'm not sure how large a quilt I am going to do - I have plenty of time to make that decision. I'm not sure about the colours but as it is a scrap quilt I have to wait and see!

The sun is back.

It's another beautiful day today so we took the chance to tidy up the veggie plot and plant a few things we bought yesterday. There is a commercial veg plant supplier near us who opens to the public on Saturday mornings and we bought 6 lettuce plants, 8 beetroot plants, 2 parsley plants and a courgette for 2 euros. it is much cheaper for us to do this than buy packets of seeds as there is only two of us and a very small potager! It is looking good now....

Yesterday it rained all day so it was a good excuse to do some sewing. Emmy didn't want to put a paw outside but decided during the afternoon that she was bored and needed to play - or learn to use the sewing machine!!

Perhaps she will finish the folded log cabin mats I am making!

Homework is finished.

I have been working on our homework from Ploudal over the last few days as I wanted to get it finished and not have to rush at the end of the summer!

I just hope I read the instructions correctly and that everyone else has blocks which look roughly the same as these! We were provided with the fabric to put in the corners and the rest of the blocks we make up from our scrap box. I'll let you know what it ends up to be!

Coin Couture

Yesterday we had our last meeting of the group at Ploudalmezeau before our summer holidays. Although I have only been going to the group for a short time I enjoy it very much, all the members are very friendly and patient with my bad French!! We have homework to do during the summer so I will post photos of mine when it is done.

This is one of the things I made in the first half of the year - a small decorated panel to hang on the door of my sewing room.

I have several unfinished projects I plan to work on over the summer, I will post photos when they are finished.
On Monday we have a patchwork day at our club in Roscoff, a report will follow!!

France patchwork - Quilt Mystere

I am a member of France Patchwork (FP) which has lots of benefits for me. Four times a year there is a wonderful magazine which features patterns and textile art from some wonderful designers.
Also, several times a year we have a Journee d'amitie (literally translated to a friendship day) where members here in the department of Finistere get together and make something. We get a kit to make a project , take our picnic and spend the day together happily sewing. Jeanne is my very close friend with whom I spend a lot of time sewing and driving around the countryside to various patchwork events. I will post more about our escapades in due course! We laugh a lot together and practice my French and (occasionally!!!) Jeanne practices her English!
This is my version of the Quilt Mystere from FP for the 2012/13 year.

Cot Quilts

Both the cot quilts I was working on in my last January post have been finished. This one has been delivered to the UK and is hopefully now being used.

The other one is finished but has not been handed over yet as the little one will not arrive until July. Here in France, as in the UK, it is not considered good luck to give baby presents before they arrive.

Kaffe Fasset at The American Museum in Bath

As usual I have been very bad at posting!! I have been very good with stitching though. I will post some pictures soon.
When I was on a visit to UK in April I went with a friend to the American Museum in Bath where there was an exhibition of the work of Kaffe Fasset. It was really colourful and the trees in the grounds had been decorated as well!