The Blogger blues

I had a few replies after my last post . Encouraging one and all. Unfortunately after Google's messing about with the settings a few years ago my blog is still not back to normal. These were all persistent commenters as 

• I apparently stand as a "no reply" blogger, while I never was in the past and I haven't changed anything,
• I was mostly unable to reply from my email this week, but could reply to some in the comment section. I apologise to those who heard nothing from me; I hope you now understand.

Has anyone else experienced this situation? If so please let me know how you resolved it. In fact any suggestions about where in the settings I could locate the problem would be very welcome.

In the meantime I've been busy, but not sewing. At the moment I'm working on this month's block for "Do Good Stitches".  It's not difficult but I'm now unpicking seams that are too wide. How did that happen? The annoying thing is that the discrepancy is about 1/16th of an inch, but over six seams that's noticeable. If it was my own quilt I wouldn't bother so much but it's too bad to send to the Queen Bee in this state.

At least, irritating as unpicking seams is, I'm back at the sewing machine, It's a start! 

From seam-ripper land 

Happy sewing

Marly.  

Patchwork jacket, One Monthly Goal

 As I wrote last week, my goal this month is the same as last month's: to finish my patchwork jacket which was started last month. I thought when I started that finishing in one month was too optimistic. It was!

 

 

 

Here is the same photo as in my last post. All I've done since is sew that right-hand strip to the back panel and pin the next one to the left. Here's hoping I can get down to it this weekend. One good thing is that normal summer weather has returned, and perhaps it will raise my my energy levels.

 

I'm linking this post to 

 

 

click here above to see more quilting goals from other quilters.

 

 

Sew happily

Marly 

 

 

 

My one monthly goal for July ...

 ...was to finish my patchwork jacket. At the beginning of the month I posted a photo of the fabric selection. Well, two heatwaves in four weeks have put pay to reaching my goal. The heat is sapping my energy! This is Northern Europe and largely air conditioning free. We can't install a unit because it's forbidden to alter the outside of the building.

 

After that moan about global warming and building restrictions, back to the patchwork jacket.

 

 

This is the back panel with a strip pinned on the right ready to add to the edge of the panel. 

The white you see on the sides is the filling and inside of the jacket. It is made using the quilt-as-you-go technique. There is extra fabric all round just in case the size needs alteration, but the inside was cut to the right size.

 

The front panels are at the same stage as the back, and I still have to start on the sleeves. Once the patches are on the sleeves I can start assembling. and hopefully it will start looking like a jacket.

 

It seems that next month will see the same goal as this.

 

I'm linking this uncompleted goal to: 

 https://www.storiesfromthesewingroom.com/2026/07/july-one-monthly-goal-finish-link-up.html  

Click on the coloured section to see how more diligent quilters have made progress.

 

Sew happily

Marly. 

 

Patchwork Jacket and one monthly goal

 

Elly's own jackets in her shop in Zoetermeer: photo from her website

Yesterday I started something new in a workshop given by Elly Prins Machine Quilting: a patchwork jacket! I wanted to make the main colour terracotta, but I didn't have enough different fabrics with that shade, so I settled for a collection of browns with some terracotta.

I spent most of the morning cutting ten long-quarters into 2.5" strips.  Next into given lengths to be joined, ready for stitching together into long strings.

 

 

 

This was quite a slow process. Elly showed us a useful method for ensuring an even distribution of the fabrics in the finished result.

Now I'm finally sewing; joining all the small pieces from the long quarters, firstly into twos, then into fours and finally into eights.

My one monthly goal is to finish my jacket by the end of the month.

I'm linking this post to https://www.storiesfromthesewingroom.com/2026/07/july-one-monthly-goal.html

  

 

Happy sewing

Marly.