Give away @ Sew Fun Quilts

Check out this give away it gets bigger everyday it is at Sew Fun Quilts, a lot of fun to be had.

We are sitting on the patio having a cuppa, sun is out but still fresh.

Enjoy the weekend.

cheers
Christine

Quilt for sale

Hi all

If you check out my post from 2nd September 2008 you can see a picture of a Jelly Star quilt, it was quilted on a long arm machine with lots of feathers.
The quilt fits on a queen size bed as you can also see in the picture and I would like to sell it for
A$ 650, it is a beautiful quilt, but I have two and really only need one.
If you are interested you can email me and I can send some more images to you.

Hope you are all having a great weekend, Queensland is beautiful one day and perfect the next.

cheers
Christine

This is what I will do....

Thanks for all your lovely comments and yes you are right start one now and finish it for next year.
I am going to look for the right pattern first, I am not a real Baltimore fan and will look for a Applique quilt that hopefully we both like and stitch it in maybe the traditional white/red/green and yellows.

Feeling good about it now.

cheers to you all
Christine

ps. I do appreciate all your comments, even if I don't always get to write back, thank you for visiting.

Regrets

Hi all

Hmm.......I am sitting here still sick with a cold or flu or whatever (has gone to my throat) and been thinking....

It is our 30th wedding anniversary and you know I should have made a quilt, I know it is never to late but it is to late for August.

My husband never says much about my quilts and the only once he ever really makes a comment about are the Baltimore or Baltimore style quilts. He has said in the past that it would be a quilt I should make for us.

Now I wish I had started on it twelve month ago, never mind have to put it out of my mind for now.

Happy sewing to you all
Christine

Nine Patch Swap

Good morning to you all

I am going to show you some of the images I got from lots of you to make everyone want to get theirs done.

They are all looking fantastic.

If you made your May blocks send me your image and I will include it here.

Have fun making your nine patch blocks as you will receive a wonderful range of different ones in return.

The images are on the right hand side .

Enjoy

Christine

Sydney Quilt Show & other things...

Hi to all of you

Well I have had a great few days and would like to share some pictures with you.

First up I still had a $200 gift voucher that I received as part of my prize in October 2008 and it was time to go and visit Apatchy (http://www.apatchyquilting.com.au/) and pick out some goodies.

Go and visit Kaye's website and see all her goodies on offer.

I had a great time.

Yesterday was my day to fly to Sydney in the morning at 6.30am and visit the Quilt show, I also met for the first time in person Robyn from Daisyquilt's, we have had a wonderful day, shopping, talking,coffee drinking, more shopping and more talking.

Thank you Robyn for a wonderful day and also my gift.

The pattern is from The Quilted Crow in Tasmania and they had the quilt on display, I soooo love it and it is in civil war print, stunning, so now I have to make it.

Also made some other purchases along the way.

I was home by 10.30pm and must say it was well worth the visit.

I have taken some images of the quilts and will share some of them with you soon. I just want to find out if I am allowed to do so.

cheers

Christine

Long weekend in Australia

The above three quilts are now ready to be send down south, the fishing one was a completed quilt from Gabi and the other two I have quilted and bound this weekend

There are more to come but it will take me a little bit as I do it between work and everythings else. I am sending these quilts to Christine Kuhne. There have been lots and lots of quilt donated.

cheers

Christine

ps. The books I just had to have

And the winner is......

Hi all

I have drawn out a name and it is Lindi, please email me your details so I can post the book to you to enjoy.

Congratulation and thank you to all of you that have entered my give away.

cheers

Chrisitine

btw. I have also finished the quilting on my new quilt.

"All Sewn Up" giveaway drawn 8th June

Hi all

I am going to have another giveaway and this one is for the "all sewn up" launch on the 8th June.
Leave a comment and also click on the red button for a link to Sarah Fielke's site and read more about it.

I am giving away is a copy of the book by Pam Holland called "The 1776 Quilt", the quilt won at Houston a few years back.





good luck
Christine

New Quilt......

Well, I have finished a customers quilt (actually Chookyblue's) and was going to put a charity quilt on the machine and then not sure how my new quilt top got in the way and wanted to be quilted first,tztztztz.

What to do, anyway it is only single bed and won't take me that long, so the other one just has to wait a few days.

Here is a little peek.........

This quilt will either be a new class or maybe even a pattern, hm have to see.

I am going to Sydney on the 11th of June and will meet up with Robyn from Daisy Quilts, I am sure we are going to have a great day.

My flight is at 6.30am in the morning and I will be back at 10pm at night, going to be a long day, but that's ok as I missed out on going last year due to my back being sore.

bye for now from cool but beautiful Queensland

Christine

My other sewing room and the Give away draw...

As promised here is my other room and someones quilt on the machine, hopefully I finish it today.

And the winner for my 6 fat 1/4's is........................... comment number 17 " Quiltmom", please send me your details via email so I can send you your prize.

Thank you all for taking part and maybe your name will come up next time.

Happy stitching

Christine

Wonky Houses Swap

Hi Girls

I got my Houses in the mail from Lurline's swap and they are soooo cute, I only sent six so got six back and now wish I had made more, anyway might make another three myself.

Thank you to Toni, Peg, Tracey,Shari and Cathy for my houses.

See what I have done with them so far:

Happy House stitching to you all.

Christine

My sewing space......

This is my sewing room , hope you enjoy having a look around.

The next two images are from our bedroom......


I also have another room with my long arm , I will show you next time

cheers

Christine

Socks model and give away

Hi all

Well I will never make it as a model, but maybe I could at least model my socks. yes I have finished my first pair of socks and am very happy, the other pair was knitted by my mother in law.

Check out Robyns give away at Daisy Quilts and join in the fun.

Anyway that's it for me for now.

Good night

Christine

TaTa 100th Post Give away

As promised here it goes my 100th post, thought I never get there you know being a shy little flower (very big grin ).



Anyway I have six fat 1/4's to give away.





Easy enough? I will draw the winner on the 30th May.

Good luck
Christine

99th post.. Bamboo Batting

Hi all

Just to give you an update on my second Jelly Star Quilt (design by Fig Tree Quilts) I have finished the quilting and the binding yesterday between classes.

Today was wash day and off it went in to the machine gentle wash.

First I like to say that my all time favourite batting has been Hobbs Heirloom Cotton 80/20 and when everyone talked about Bamboo Batting I thought I should try it.

The first thing I noticed the extra weight in the quilt and the second thing was that it is bearding

I took it out of the wash and there were small lumps of fibres from the batting.

I did run a lint roller over it to show you some of the bearding. Hopefully it will not continue.

The quilt is dry and the thing I like about the batting is antique look the quilt got after the wash.

Will I use it again? Let's see if I get more bearding. What is next on my list? well I will now in between customer quilts start quilting the tops I got while I was in Germany so that the quilts can get finished and send down south. Here are some of them.

cheers

Christine

ps. check out the new DUQ Magazine there is a project from Lurline, Robyn Daisy Quilts and Jane from Purrfectly Quilted)

Canadian Quilter.. Nine Patch swap

I have received an email a few days back from a fellow quilter in Canada and she is going to host a swap there.

Now she ask me if she could use my picture on her blog and I was going to email her but it bounced.
If you are reading this, please email me again, otherwise yes you can take the image of my nine patch quilt and put it on your blog.
Thank you for asking.

Christine

Long arm quilting

Hi all

Once again I am sharing a quilt that I am quilting for one of my lovely customers, this is her first quilt and it is made using the Yellow Brick Road pattern.





I love it, I am quilting it with a panto Butterfly's and Daisy's in a soft pink.

Now her backing is also pieced using all her leftover fabrics, plus a bit extra. I am feeling comfortable now taking on quilts and use mainly Rasant, Aurifil and King Tut Threads, have had great results.

I am still learning but know what I want when quilting and that is making sure the stitches are not pulling at the back or front as well as having the stitches not too big.



I might not have a computer machine, but feel at ease with the one I got.

My machine does not have a locking stitch so I am feeding all the threads in after quilting and find it gives a better result.

Next week I am taking part in a one day workshop with Sharon Schamber to learn to quilt Feathers, I am sure it will be a great workshop.

If you have a quilt top or some binding to do just email me. I am in Brisbane and have a couple of shops that you can drop the quilt in.

Thanks for visiting my blog.

Christine


ps. If you like the Aunt Mellie's Garden quilt in my previous post than visit Peppermint Stitches as they are running it as a class beginning in June. Fiona Bergman is teaching the class and I am sure you will learn a lot.

Some sewing today..

These are some of the things I am working on at the moment (well there are a few more hiding)

As you can see in the pictures when I do bindings I use those clips instead of pins, they work really great.

cheers

Christine

Swap

Hi all

I now have 24 swappers, please welcome Jane from Jane's Fabric, Jane will be sponsored by Lurline, isn't that lovely, thank you Lurline.

So everyone will send me 6 lots of 12 blocks at the beginning of November 09 and will receive in return one of their own plus 11 different once per month i.e. 72 in total.

Please check if your name is here and I will add a link to all your blogs in the next few days:

Sharon F.
Jane ( Jane's Fabric )
Cardygirl
Peg
Kris
Toni
Maggie A.
Janet
Robyn
Donna
Julia
Jeni
Melanie
Bernadette
Linda C.
Lissa Jane
Lea G
Deidre
Jenny K.
Erin
Kate
Lurline
Leah

and myself.

If your name is not there let me know and thank you for playing.
When you send your picture each month to my email please make sure it is small otherwise it takes to long to download.
My addresse will be send out closer to the date for you all to send your blocks.

cheers
Christine

Two Posts in one day...

Well I am trying to get to 100 posts and then maybe have a give-away?

It seems to take me forever to get there, anyway I received my sewing box in the mail the other day after we posted it from Germany.

DH has polished it up for me and I love it very much, as said in my earlier mail it is from the 1940/50 and was given to my mother in law and she thought I would like it.

Reproduction nine patch swap update, we have now including me 17 swappers, maybe we could get to 24, come on aussie quilters join in.

cheers

Christine

Made my Nine-Patches for this month

Hi all

I am trying to take my mind of my cough it is driving my crazy so I thought I show you my finished nine-patch block. Hopefully we get a few more of you playing.

If you are interested check out my previous mail about the swap.

cheers

Christine

Hm.. Afternoon Tea

Had some Plums left in the fridge and thought I try a new recipe, it sure was yummy...

The tablecloth was stitched by my mother in law and given to me as a gift while we were there.

It is all stitched by hand, not sure if it if called white work embroidery, she used very old linen and the design was traced on by her ( a very old one she has now made three, one for herself, her daughter and mine)

cheers

Christine

Nine-Patch Swap

Hi all this is for Australia only

Sorry to all others but the postage would be too difficult to work out.

Ok who wants to play? I am holding a nine-patch swap and if you would like to join let me know.

I am planning on starting this month.

The way I thought I would do this is as followed:

1 )If you like to join you would make 12 nine-patch blocks from the same two fabrics per month over six month. Each month you use a different set of two fabrics. If you haven't got enough of one fabric to make twelve for that month replace with a similar fabric. The fabrics in my quilt are mainly reproduction fabrics so let's make the swap reproduction fabrics too.


2) They will need to be made from two fabrics one light/the other dark


3) They are to be 6 1/2inches square nine-patch blocks


4) The dark fabric is to be used for the five squares and the light fabric (or contrast) for the other four squares. If you look at my quilt in the previous post you will get some ideas for colours.


5) I would like to receive a photo at the end of each month showing your set of 12 nine-patch blocks.


6) After six month you will send me 6 sets of 12 blocks, including a self addressed envelope (with postage) to receive the same number of nine-patch blocks in return.


7) Please only join if you really think you can do this and want to do take part.


8) Please copy/paste the button that (Robyn from Daisy Quilts has kindly made for me) add a link and hopefully we get enough swappers to join.




Of course you can make two lots of 12 different sets, it would mean you get more back.

The minimum swappers I would need is 12, maybe we make it to 24 ? Who knows.


The last thing have fun.

cheers


Christine


ps. This is my quilt with the binding finished, sorry the image is a bit dark. I will take a new one today sometime.

Quilting and maybe a New Swap?

I have been quilting the last few days and must say I love scrap quilts.




The nine-patch quilt was made from nine patches our group did as a swap, we had 12 people in the swap and made 12 nine patches each month and swapped.

We all had 144 different ones at the end of the year, it was great fun,hm maybe I could work out a swap somehow?????

Have to give this some thought how to organise it , we could make sets of twelve for say 6 month, send a photo each month of your set of twelve, then send the lot at the end of the six month, I would then do the swap and send them back.


We should all end up with 72 different nine patches. Let me know if there is interest out there and I will organise it.





These are images from my Jelly Star Quilt that I am custom quilting (my first) and I am pleased with how it is going.


Also a bit of a tease, this is what we had one afternoon while in Germany..... yummy Torte.




quilting hugs
Christine

Here are some more pictures

Hi there, here are some more pictures from our holiday, there are some wonderful old cities in Germany with beautiful buildings many hundreds of years old.












Enjoy Christine

Oh dear

Good morning to you all

I have been a bit quiet as I am feeling a bit under the weather,hm no reason just need a big push to get on with things.
We have been very busy getting our DS in to his place since returning from overseas and therefore have overdone it and been flat on my back a couple of days.

He is going to move in over the weekend and hopefully all will return to normal, but then again what is normal?????
Don't want to complain to much as we are very very lucky and don't have reasons to complain.
I look out of the study and the sun is out, wind blowing and it is getting a little cooler. Now the best time of the year starts, I love the crisp mornings and the colder evenings very much.

Went to swimming lessons with our little Sophie the other day and she is making great progress for her 21 month age. Good to see that she is enjoying the water, when she spotted me she called out ,ohhhhhh omaaaaaa. She is the light of my life and a lot of fun to be with.

Anyway enough from me for now, I have a quilt on the machine and will try and get it done without overdoing it today.

Happy sewing and big quilting hugs
Christine

The last two weeks....

Not sure where the last two weeks have gone, but we are home and slowly getting back in to the day to day running of our lives.

DH got sick in the last week of our stay in Germany and we stayed home a lot for him to get better before the long flight.

Didn't get to see a number of people I wanted to meet, sorry Renate but I will be back in Germany before to long and make sure we meet.

I was given a lot of tops and projects to finish for our Bushfire survivors and will make a start soon to send them south.

As I finish them I will post pictures for you to see.

My classes are also starting soon, ohhh well enough of being lazy, go and check them out at www.patches.com.au if you are interested.

I have started knitting socks while away with my dear mother in laws help and as you can see.

The images are from the town Stade that my mother lives in, it is a very old town and a lot of the streets are for pedestrians only, love it great walking and window shopping.

Hope everyone had a safe Easter, no chocolates for me as I really need to loose weight.

Bye for now

Christine

Hi again

Good morning

Well we are having a good time but are ready to fly home, there is no place like home.

My easter swap parcel is on it's way to Australia, not sure if I am allowed to say the state? Hmmm maybe not.

Hope my swap partner likes her present.

We had some snow the other day not what you want at the end of march, it didn't last long but was lovely to see.

Today the sun is out and no rain, we are going to go for a walk later today.

I love walking through the forest, one big thing I miss in Australia, but I guess a small thing.

Have only been to two shops here, one has wonderful Tilda fabrics, I was strong and didn't buy any but might have to go back and get just a few.

I am a very lucky girl, my mother inlaw has given me this beautiful sewing box to take with me, it was made in the 1950's and I love it.

bye for now

Christine

Easter swap

I have been working on my easter swap present and am nearly done, I hope I get it posted very soon.

So far I am pleased with how it is turning out, I have taken only limited tools and fabrics with me on holidays. Today I will do the binding, I have also purchased some other easter treats for my little parcel.

The next images are from our parents place and the flowers are slowly showing their colour.

I am going to take some photos in the next few days off some quilts, tops , blocks and fabrics that I have been given for to finish and give to our bushfire victims, so come back in a few days if you like to see these lovely gifts.

happy stitching to you all

Christine

Quilt show in Germany

Hi all

Today my husband took me to a quilt show in Hamburg/Germany, we had a lovely day the sun was out and the driving not to bad.

The quilt show is held every four years and most of the quilts are made in classes with the organiser, I have taken some photos and thougth I share them with you.

After the show we went and visited a quilt shop near by were I found the magazine I have been looking for "Quiltmania",the owner had a few issues left so three went home with me.

The shop is called The Quilthouse and has a website www.thequilthouse.de

Last night I worked on my present for the easter swap and have nearly finished it, hopefully it will make it in time.

bye for now

Christine

Hallo from Germany

Good morning

Well it is again grey, grey and grey and a bit of rain.
After a long flight we got to Germany a few days late and before leaving Australia we changed our flight to business class, well what a difference it makes on how you feel.

We had a lovely afternoon at my DH's mothers birthday and made it just in time for cake and coffee,yummy.

I have been sick since monday with a bad cough and cold and only feel a bit better this morning.

It is good to see the family and it feels like we have never left.

A number of Germany quilters have been in touch with me and are giving me tops and blocks and other things to take back with me for our bushfire victims, support from around the world.
Quilters are great people.

Must go now and have breakfast.

hugs to all
Christine

Still at home...

Good morning all

Yes we are still at home and had to change our flight to Saturday.

We had a bit of an emergency with our daughter and I wasn't going anywhere until I knew she is going to be ok.

She will be fine and is home again, we are so lucky as our daughter in law is a doctor and works at the same hospital our daughter went to, makes getting info a bit easier.

I have had a funny feeling about this trip for a while and am so glad we had a late flight as it all happened through out the day.
Emirates have been fantastic about it and with the doctors certificate it wont cost a cent changing the flight, mind you wouldn't have made any difference on our decision to stay until we knew all is ok.

So with this I am having a few extra days on the sewing machine and will finish stitching the house blocks for our swap, check out Lurline's site if you like more info.

I m also finishing at knitted scarf that I had started and it only needs another 20inches or so.

Will post some pictures later today.

hugs to you all
Christine

Hi, I have been quilting......

Hi all

I have been quilting two more quilts and should be doing others things,hmmm like packing or oh I don't know.

Anyway the little quilt is for my table and I bought the fabrics from Freda's Hive they were squares and in my parcel I got all these cute little squares.

So when I pieced the larger squares I thought I could applique the smaller ones on top.

Anyhow I like it and when it came to the backing I found a panel and some pieces of fabric I had in my stash for quiet some time. Pleased with how it turned out.

The other one is a customer quilt, it is for Stacey from Peppermint Stitches at Toowong, if you ever in Brisbane go and check her out, she has a great eye for picking wonderful fabrics for her shop.

I am going to piece my House blocks and a couple of stars before going away, am working all day Wednesday (three classes one after the other), class on Saturday and work after at Patches , a hand quilting class on Monday at a local group and then we fly out. Oh forgot doctors appointments in between. I might also have to pack at some stage too.

Hello to everyone and thank you to Mel + Gabi

It is amazing to see and hear about all the people from all over the world caring so much for us here in Australia, it is wonderful donations are coming in from everywhere and offers of help to rebuilt the communities. Amazing......

We did our bid financially and made our donation and I hope to make some star blogs for Tia she is making a few quilts to give, you can find out details on Lurline's blog the link is on my sidebar.

I have also received an email from Gabi a quilt shop owner in Germany "Quiltshop Kaleidoscope"

and she would like to organise stitching comfort cushions, she will pass them on to me and I will then pass them on from here. Her blog is http://gabi-allaboutme.blogspot.com/, go and check it out.
Have been thinking to raffle one of my quilts, but not sure how to go about it, if there is anyone with some ideas please let me know.

Today I am sending my three gifts from my give-away,sorry about the delay but I have not been feeling 100% the last week. Have been in a lot of pain in my back and my right side seems to come in 4 week waves, never had this before but noticed this happening for the last 8 month or so. Yes have been to the doctor and will have a US on Tuesday, need to know what I am dealing with before flying overseas.




DS 2 (21 this year) had his fiance approved for his little townhouse this morning, just wonderful

Now a very big thank you to Mel I have received my gifts from her give-away, thank you so very much it was wonderful to sit down and read the two magazines.




Last but not least I got my new book in the mail this morning : "The Fabric of Society" by Dr. Annette Gero, will have to have a few hours to sit and read and dream of making some of those quilts. If you click on her name it will take you to the website and see a lot more pictures.






bye for now

lots of quilting hugs

Christine

News and what I have been doing

Hello to all

The news is devastating and full of stories of loss and sadness, as well as survival.

The fires are still burning and more towns are under threat and are being evacuated.

My dear son in law has left to help, he is an Officer in the Defence Force, I hope they all stay safe.

To make this post a little more quilty, I have been quilting a few customer quilts to keep my mind of things.

This oh so cute quilt was made by a mother to be, it is her first attempt and I think it is so very cute.

Thought I share some photos with you.

Also my baby boy bought me these beautiful flowers for my birthday.

I am going tomorrow to donate some money as we are told that is the best thing to do to help at this point in time.

Hope you all stay safe.

hugs

Christine

Fires in Australia

Waking up this morning with the sun shining reading the news, my heart goes out to everyone that is going through the worse time in Victoria.

Just reading that at least 24 people of lost their lives and they fear even more lives have been lost trying to get away from the fires.Makes any of those little problems you might have really nothing.
Queensland's north is flooding.

Feeling very sad this morning as well as helpless.

hugs to all
Christine

And the winners are...........

Thank you to everyone wishing me a happy birthday and for entering my draw.
I would also like to wish everyone that has or had a birthday last week or this week or even today a wonderful day.

The winners are the following people:

Herzblatt : you have won the little quilt
Christina: the embroidered Angel will come to you

Millie: the two cushion covers are yours

please send me your address so I can send your gifts to you next week.

Congratulations to you all and hope you all have a great day.

hugs to all
Christine

Give away why? ... because I can...

Hi all

As I said in the last post I have a few things I would like to give away to a new home.

If you leave a comment and post it on your blog I will put your name in the draw for one of the items, well in case of the cushion covers for both.

They are things that I made a while ago and might like to find a new home.

I will close the give away on my birthday 7th February.

Good luck

cheers

Christine

Lots to talk about

Ok this will be a longer post as I have to catch up on a few things.

First I won a giveaway from Shari and it arrived a couple of days ago. A wonderful magazine that I have not seen before with lots of little projects to make for gifts.

She also send me a stack of I-spy fabrics and I am planning to use them to make a Library bag for Sophie, she is only 18month but loooooves books, her Mum (my daughter) is a teacher and Sophie has been read to since birth.

A big quilting hug to you Shari.

Then today I got a parcel in the mail from Carol and it had the beautiful Amish quilt that Carol parted with, she had a giveaway of 5 items and I was very lucky to receive this one.

Keep an eye on my blog as I am planning a similar giveaway very soon.......

I sure will treasure this quilt( have never received a quilt before) what a wonderful feeling.

Quilting hugs to you Carol.

Now I have been tagged twice, I think a little while ago to tell you eight things about myself:

1) I am left handed

2) I have my 30th wedding anniversary in August

3) I am going to be 48 next month

4) I immigrated to Australia in 1983 with two young children

5) I looooooove quilting

6) Reproduction and 1930'2 fabrics are my favorite

7) I would love to own a vintage double wedding ring quilt or top

8) I am a wife, mother to three and a Oma ( grandma to Sophie)

Now if you like to play along, count yourself tagged.........

Also Julie has tagged me showing you a photo out of my 6th folder and it is to be the 6th photo:

Christmas eve 2007

The last thing for today, I have finished quilting my DD mystery quilt

That's all for now

good night

Christine

Jelly Star take two

Just finished the top for a second Jelly Star quilt top a design by Fig Tree Quilts.

I like this one better then the first and will quilt it myself.



cheers

Christine

Scrappy Quilt

Ok, I had a few people ask to give the info on the quilt I made using left over units from Orange Crush.

There is a photo a couple off messages down.

Each block uses four of the left over scrap units,sew them in to blocks, the blocks measure 61/2in square.

I have four rows of three blocks, the yellow sashing strips are cut 61/2in x 2in, you need 31.

The corner stones are 2in squares and you need 20.

For the checkerboard border I used 164 scrappy 2 in squares,sewing them in to pairs, one light one dark.

For each side you need 21 pairs

For each top and bottom you need 19 pairs.

The skinny green border is cut 1 1/2in wide

The red border is cut 1 3/4in wide.

The outer border is cut 51/2in.

Hope this helps anyone that wanted to know, any problems please email me and I will try and help.

The other image is a bag I made this weekend, I bought the pattern and main fabric from Freda's hive.

I love it.

Wow two awards

Thank you so much to Julia and Mel for giving me these awards. It means a lot to me.

Blogging has been very good for me and I have been in touch with so many people from all over the world, I love it. Thank you to Lurline for getting me on to Quiltville because that is when it all started for me.

Now I am suppose to pass the awards on, I think and I have to say this is very difficult as there are so many wonderful bloggers out there.
So I am giving these awards to all of you, each and everyone that has a blog, thank you all for sharing.

It has been very hot here today and I feel for all the people living near the bush fires (hope you are all ok) and also everyone that lives in the extreme cold parts of the world.


quilting hugs
Christine

This is not what I should be doing

Hi all

Now this is not what I should be doing, but my mind is racing and I am not sure were to start.
We are going away next month and I would rather stay at home, but we have both our mother turning 80 and my sister 60, so we better fly and visit.
Hopefully I can fit a bit of quilting in and visit some shops and buy a few little things.

So instead I work on something where I don't have to think.

The blocks in the centre are left over from the OC mystery quilt I made a while ago and I thought I could make them in to something and this is what I made.






All the fabric is from the stash, so again I am very pleased.


cheers


Christine

Yepeeee Mystery top done

Hi all

I have finished the mystery quilt top, not as quick as others but I have to do a few things in between.

Here it is:

The only fabric I bought is the border, I have used so many scraps of different mustard's and purple, amazing feeling to use up odds and ends.

cheers

Christine

ps. not what I normally would make, but I am sure someone will love it one day.

Good morning all

Here are my blocks for the mystery, I am slowly getting there and am very pleased the way they look and all the fabric comes from scraps.

I have used lots of different purples and pinks anything that would possibly go.

Also a better picture of the Boxy Star and another customer quilt done, I really like this home, I used a variegated thread and must say pleased with it. It was I think the largest one so far.

bye for now

Christine

Step 1 and 2 from the Mystery done

Hi all





My other sewing room before it got messy with the mystery quilt sewing.


I have finally finished the first two steps and cut out step three.
I think my camera needs charging the pictures aren't very clear, never mind.




Also these blocks are for a new quilt for our little Sophie, it is Bonnie's Boxy Star pattern, very quick I ran out off fabric so have to go shopping before I can do some more.




cheers

Christine

Keeping busy

Hi to all you wonderful people in blogger-land

I have been trying to get a start on the next mystery quilt from the Quiltville site and get stuck at the computer every now and again, very big grin.

Thank you to all you caring people out there, you know who you are.

Here is my start of the mystery

and another customer quilt loaded on the machine ready to quilt, can't leave the machine idle for too long.

Christine

Charity Quilt for Robyn from Daisy Quilt

Happy New Year to you all.


We even stayed up this year and I am paying for it this morning being very tied, anyway I have just finished the binding on this little quilt.


Robyn from http://daisyquilts.blogspot.com/ makes these quilts with the help of others and I have ask her to send me one to quilt for her.

Well seeing that she hurt her hand before Christmas I thought I might as well bind it before sending it back.

If you check out her blog you find a link to the blog regarding these quilts, who they are for and how you can help

So Robyn if you read this please send me your snail mail so I can send the quilt to you, I have misplaced it.

cheers
Christine

Quilt bound

Hi there back again and yes I did bind the quilt today and am very pleased with it.

Now I would like to keep it and might have to part with one of my other quilts for my sister,hm have to think about it, there are a few I could choose from.

This one was suppose to have an applique block in the centre, but I didn't like the design so I only did the bears paw block.

All the fabrics are out of my stash, even the backing so I am very pleased with myself.

I also order just before Christmas from Freda's Hive Etsy shop and got my parcel today, she was so kind and added an extra pattern plus some cute trims and fabrics. Thank you so very much.

Will make the bag tomorrow can't wait, please check out her blog it is wonderful: http://fredashive.blogspot.com/. Robyn see I got one off those little houses you made from Nanette.

We just had home made pizza and I am now enjoying a glass of Brown Brothers Vintage Moscato Rosa, cheers to you all.

Christine