"It takes ages to finish a quilt you're not working on!"

Friday, February 19, 2010

Two finishes as promised, and some opshop finds.

Pam Kellogg is creating a monthly biscornu pattern for her readers to do, and this one was January. Her colours were completely different to this. When I was looking through my stash for some Aida or linen to work on, I found a piece of yellow Aida, and for some reason as I looked at Pam's pattern and at the yellow fabric, I could visualise flames. So I used red, brown and orange and have called it my Bushfire Biscornu! Here is my Romantic Bookmark (or small wall hanging). I still have to put a backing on it, but that is a matter of minutes. I'm just pleased to have finished something that was started in 2003!
I went for an opshop crawl today, and found this very old unfinished tablecloth. It is dusty and stained, and I know what you're thinking - as if I haven't got enough to do! The reason I wanted it is because I have two more cloths in this style, with the yellow binding. One has a Mexican design on it and the other a Swiss style design. (I described it as Swiss because it depicts a girl that looks like Heidi in the book of the same name). I'm now wondering if there was a series of these cloths brought out, with designs for different countries?
I also found these two perfectly stitched centrepieces or traycloths.

3 comments:

Jane said...

Beautiful stitching on that last one. Congratulations on your finishes too

Eggs In My Pocket said...

Beautiful work! It feels good to get something finished, doesn't it? blessings,Kathleen

Patty said...

Nice finds and I love the biscornu!