wordless wednesday

 

 

Dotty Spotty

Dotty Spotty is all finished :)

Quilted in diaganal lines

Srips of colour on the back so if it's used on the floor it wont show up too much dirt :)

Finished size is about 110cm. Overall happy with it. Still not sold on the unisex thing...

What do you think? Would you call this unisex?

And another thing.....how do you take good photo's of quilts?! Seriously, I suck at it lol! xox

Crafty folks :)

Yesterday I had the absolute pleasure in meeting and hanging out with 3 like minded crafty ladies.
AND THEY LIVE IN DARWIN!!!
Wooohooooo!!!!



Me and my little one, Kirsty, Nikki and Anna down the front. And the little man over the back is Anna's little angle. My boy child took the picture.....hence the fuzzy ;)

One of the hardest things about moving up here was not being able to attend my local craft group (hello ladies, I know your reading) I missed chatting, the company, show and tell and most of all the friendships that come out of craft. There is something extra special about being with a group of people that just get. it. You know?
While blogging has filled part of that void, the thought of meeting regularly with a group of awesome crafters is, giddy silly exciting, jump and twirl and skip and run kind of exciting :) Yes. I am very excited!!
Hopefully next time Mel and Melissa with be able to join us!!

And so you, my gorgeous bloggy friends don't feel like you have missed out....here's some show and tell for you ;)

 

xox

sunday stash #4

I started the day saying good bye to my beloved husband. He has 'gone bush' for 4 to 8 weeks. I really hate not knowing when he is going to be home. Sucks, but you know, that's life :)

Moving on....I had taken photos for todays post but thats not what I am showing you now. I went to spotlight with all the children. Yep. Not for the faint hearted.

I seriously couldn't help meself

I'm hoping the last stack will be ok to use for a unisex baby's quilt. What do you think? I was thinking maybe pin wheels with white? Mmmmm. These people that dont find out what they are having! Unisex is hard! xox

I love Sherbet Pips!

So it's not uncommon for me to fall in love with a fabric range. It happens at least once a month but this, this is different. This is a hard core love affair.

It's serious, very serious.

I love the girls in the swings. Look at the tiny snail and hedgehog!!

I love the dogs chasing the balls with little mice scurrying around!

I love the kids on their scooters!

But my favorite, absolute favorite is the grey! I just love it! This picture doesn't really show the true colour, over cast today and hard to get a good picture. But trust me. It is perfect :)

Nice and easy. Charm squares (about a pack and 1/2) sewn up then quilted in straight lines :)

I do love the graduating colour :)

Backing, white with blue spots from the stash, thinking it might have been spotlight fabric. Binding, red Polka dot from Bonnie and Camille's range 'Bliss' 

I can not wait for this range to be released in yardage!!! xox

Weekend quilt top #1

After the fire, when I was cashed up and needed to restock, I brought this glorious kit from the girls at Ink & Spindle. For me. No one else, just me :)

I have finished the quilt top! I really do love it!

Being a kit there will be others out there similar I decided to add a little red to the mix. I had some Ginkgo and Keys, both Ink & Spindle, in the stash.

Thinking I'll quilt straight lines across then maybe add some hand quilting lines as well. I do love sitting and stitching xox

Coin quilt top :)

And just like that, I have another quilt top!

The strips are a precut sweet roll of Sweet by urban chicks I brought a while ago from fabric patch

I cut them into 61/2" pieces, ordered them in colour, then sewn them up. In hindsight I would have ordered them, then sewn them in groups of 10 then cut. Would have been much easier!

I also would have made the white sashing slightly wider. Other than that, I'm happy.

Please excuse the photo too. iPhone pictures are not the best!

We're on cyclone watch at the moment so I'm off to fill the drink bottles and try to stay dry. Already very very wet and windy xox

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I suck!

Like, totally.

See I signed up....late...for The Down Under Doll Quilt Swap. And convinced Ms CP to join me. Consequently we got each other as swap partners. Which, has been a load of fun because we are mates and she is cool! 

However......

Agreement was we were to post our quilts on the same day to see who got there's first. Abbe posted hers......and I....did.....not.

So now, this fabulous perfect TOTALLY LOVE IT little dolls quilt is here at my house and Abbe's quilt....is...ummmm...well...here too...

See, told you, I suck xox

Please note my dear beautiful friend Abbe who is the stitching and quilting queen (sucking up now) that yours is going in the post, express, first thing in the morning. Pinky swear xox

DQS9 received and I LOVE IT!!!

I have my Doll Quilt Swap 9!!

And I LOVE IT!!

I love the colours! 

I love love LOVE Lecien's Flower Sugar range. I have it all in my stash (oooops!)

I love that it is 3D! How cool is that?!

Like I said, I LOVE IT!!

Thanks so much to Sweettea Mom for my wonderful quilt! And thanks to all the mama's that organise this international swap! It has been loads of fun :)

On a side note, mine has not made it to it's destination yet :( Really freaking out. Lucky I paid extra for registered post. Will be on the phone first thing Monday morning tracking it down. Auspost wed site says no item found ekkkk!! xox 

Small quilt top

Hope you are all having a lovely weekend :)

Between loads of washing, feeding and watering children, running them around to parties, sports etc I manage to make a quilt top for the UHG Swap :)

Overall I am happy with the piecing. They are cut 1 1/2" so end up 1". Made from the Momo Wonderland Sweet roll. Just need to add some boarders and I'm good to quilt! I am a little worried that it isn't 'modern' enough.
It's great to be back at the machine!!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend! Hope you footy team has had a win xox

FINALLY!!!

My Doll Quilt Swap #9 is finished!! Wooohooooo!!

I'm so happy with it. Very very hard to give it away.

100% hand pieced. Even the binding. Pretty pleased with myself I must say ;)

Just need to put the label on tonight and it will be in the mail tomorrow! I also made a pin cushion to go with it. Pretty cute if I do say so myself...

Now to get cracking on the Urban Goods Swap and the Down Under Quilt Swap xox

"Hello Chicken"

"Hello Chicken! What's that? You want to show me something?" (nothing to do with 'precious gifts'!)

"Please, can I see?"

"Oh so pretty!!"

"And what does mummy make from the pretty hexies?"

"Flowers!! So lovely!!"

"Mummy is so clever ;)" 

Teehee, making for Hexed 2010 hex a along xox

Confidence

Having a little crises of at the moment....

You know don't you? When you think you've got it and then you don't. Doubt creeps in......

I'm still working on the DQS#9. Thought I had it but now.....not so sure. And I'd really love some honest thoughts. Because you are my friends and you can be honest :)

Here's how she looks at the moment. 

There will be linen diamonds all around the edge and then binding to finish her off. So the quilt will keep the hexagon shape. 

I'm still not sold on it. Hard with crappy camera (waiting on insurance) but I'm thinking it might be missing something.....what to you think?

These are the other 2 fabric I thought I could add.....or not. 

Otherwise I could scrap it and start again.

Thoughts please?? xox

my creative space

Firstly, thank you :) You guys are so lovely. Seriously. This week is really sucky. And you guys are great :)

So I'm going to pretend for a minute that we have curtains instead of boxes covering our windows and that we have a kitchen full of lovely thing instead of paper plates and plastic spoon and show you some seriously yummy fabric that will soon (end of the year) become a grandmothers flower garden :)

Sweet!

Old New Fabric Collection '30 by Lecien brought from Threadbear :) 

I can't want to start!

And yes these pictures are taken on our new stove top. With the safety switch OFF ;)

More spaces, as always, over here where Kirsty is playing with Aunty Cookies Cheaters. Love it! xox

An update and some hexagons...

Good morning! Again, been awhile.

Thanks a bunch everyone for you kind words of support. It has been a hard month. Warms my heart to know you guys are all here cheering me on.

House update : At this stage we will be back in at the start of July. We have great temp. accommodation and school holidays start at the end of this week so no more frigging driving!! Woohoo!! Here is how it looked after they filled the skip bin

Yesterday when I popped in they have the ceiling in and painting has started.

Now for the fun stuff!!

I have been hexing up a storm! Decided to make a 'fire' quilt. Which is just a quilt made while in accommidation by hand lol! I've used black as the back ground, because, well the house was black with smoke. And the charm pack I have used is Blush. It was gifted and sighed 'This one is not smoky, love Fi' Thanks Fi :) 

btw did you see what Fi made me?! Stoked!! LOVE it!!

Crappy pictures. Still no camera so these are taking with the still broken iPhone. Sigh!

It's only little. I'm not completely crazy;) I was thinking of adding some smaller hexies in between the centre blue centre one and the outer ones. Now I'm not so sure. What do you think?

And because I had so much fun hexing those up I made these. 

They will become a story book quilt for the kids! And you all thought I wasn't doing anything ;) xox