A finished tablecloth and great helpers

I am afraid to say that I had  to be reminded by one of my daughters that "you havent blogged in over a week".  The time gets away sometimes.  My excuse is that last week I needed to do heaps of administration work.

 But -  I finished my tablecloth.  It is rather difficult to take a photo to show the colour correctly.  But if you click on the photo the enlarged one shows it a little better, I think.

This was started as a friendship round project with a group of friends in 2006.  Each of the 8 friends made an embroidered block and a 9 patch block for me.  My theme was garden and light to mid blues.  I provided the white homespun and lots of pictures for inspiration.  The embroideries were amazing.

It is a lot of photos, but I am going to post the photos of all the embroideries done by my friends, as a record for myself - for when I get old and my memory is not so good.  (hehe).

 Marilyn T.

Chris

Judy 

Bettye 

Pat 

Pam 

Ailsa 

Lorraine - this is the first embroidery Lorraine has done, and she had the others in the group teach her the stitches - she has done  beautiful work. 

This is one of mine - I placed it in the centre as it is non directional.  Each other embroidery faces outwards so it can be seen well  by the person sitting in front of it.

  

I did the remaining 6 embroideries over time, but the most difficult part was working out the size of the outside sashing and border to fit the centre section.  It finally went together well.

I have a very old table which had belonged to my Great Grandparents and would be at least 130 years old.  The tablecloth fits perfectly on it.   

Kai and Charlie had a sleepover on Friday night.  On Saturday they cleaned the outside area where their dog (who has a permanent sleepover with us) usually sleeps.

Such great helpers.  They also bathed their dog - and turned the hose onto me, which of course they thought was hilarious.