Manor House has a border and it is ready to quilt

We have been having lots of rain recently, so more time spent indoors. I found some dark grey fabric in my stash, enough for all the flying geese which form the inner border of the quilt.

For the corner squares of the main border I am using bird motifs from 

one of the fabrics used in the quilt.

With so much rain everything is looking lush, and when the sun comes out (which is not very often now), the garden is buzzing with bees.

 

So, one last press,

and it is ready to be put together

to be quilted.

I was unsure which colour to use for the quilting; grey would had been the obvious choice,

 but in the end I decided on light gold, which I think will work quite well here. 

  

This is little too early, I know, but I have also decide on the fabric for the binding; 

this deep wine matches one of the colours used in the applique.

All ready to quilt, but as I am going to do it by hand, now is not the time, 

it is too warm to have a quilt on my lap. 

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........................more of Manor House

I have now joined all 4 sections - rather long for my washing line.

I ordered more of the background fabric for the borders, it arrived Monday, but they sent a wrong one.

Fortunately it was resolved the same day, and today the correct one arrived in the post, hurrah!

I also found reduced fabric online for the backing; should had been light grey. What arrived is not something I would call light grey, more like light khaki, but it is for the back of a wallhanging (not often seen), so I shall go with it - it was cheap; so there is a lesson 😏

Actually, since I wrote this, I contacted the supplier about the colour not being what I expected, 

they called back within a couple of hours, agreeing with me re rather bad colour description and informed that they are sending out another 3 m in better grey; despite the fact I offered to return the original I was told to keep it for another project! Nice people.....😊

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FNwF and another month

This year is moving along in an alarming rate; one day we might think of this year as a lost one - or possibly not, depending on how many quilts, socks, jumpers or other projects we have made during this time.

Friday night was that time again - to virtually meet up with others at Cheryll's, who very kindly lends us her blog for monthly "hang outs".

What was I doing? After a rather wet mid week, the sun came out and it got very hot again. The result was that Friday evening turned out to be very pleasantly warm and so we stayed outside longer than normally and while the light permitted, I worked on the last applique part of the Manor House quilt, nearly finishing it, I just stitched the last leaf on yesterday morning.

The next step will be two borders, but those will have to be done inside, as the sewing machine will be engaged - not my favourite pass time at this time of year, I prefer to be outside.

With some rain and sun, our little garden it looking rather lush; this has been our oasis since spring.

Last weekend our family got together in our daughter's garden, to celebrate all those birthdays missed during the lock down - 4 of them, including mine. We all chipped in with food; I made a summer cake, which I first made last summer; made with almonds and honey instead of sugar. I have come to a conclusive that apricots work much nicer here than nectarines.  

Once cut, it went rather quickly, before I had time to take a picture of a slice.

I am off outside again, to make few more 2 in hexies!

I hope this post will come out OK, I am trying to get in to grips with the Blogger version 😕

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