When is a rose not a rose?

... when it looks like this of course;

More like an apple ... at least some of you thought so, when i made

this blog post a while ago.

MMMmmmmm i thought!!!
The intention was roses and I planned to make lots of scrappy roses, set them on point and create a rose swagger in each corner.

Like this;

Needless to say I was not impressed by my efforts at all and threw it into a corner of the studio where it has been gathering dust.

It just did not look at all right and how I had seen it in my mind.


However, I don't like to be defeated and I thought to myself 'how's about I get some binding tape and try turning my 'apples' into a stained glass window effect.


While my dear hubby has been working nights this week, I have settled myself in front of the T.V with an ironing board perched next to me, my Clover mini-iron on hand and off I set.


It has taken me two evenings to get this far;

While I'm not exactly loving it yet, I am loving it a whole lot more than I did before.

The question is do I simply stop at the roses or should I 'stain glass' my leaves too?

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Block 7 Free Bom; Count your Friendship Blessings

Sorry for the delay but Block 7 of my free BOM is now available and can be found here or by clicking the picture in my sidebar.

Hope you enjoy.





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Announcing the winners ....

I intented to announce my Domestic Bliss giveaway much earlier.

Can we drum-rolls please the winner of the Domestic Bliss Pattern, kit and goodies is ....


Well done to comment 39 from BillieBee who said;
Great patterns and thanks for the opportunity to win the giveaway.
Send me your details and I shall get the items posted to you.

Now for 5 winners of my pattern;

Julie from Julie's Quilt Gallery

Quiltin Sandy from Sandy's sewing Circle

Patchwork and Play


Rock Granny from
Quilts of Many Colours

Nancy-Sue

I used True Random number generators to obtain my winners - but the icon's wouldn't copy and paste properly - you will just have to take my word for it!!!!

Thank you for entering and once you send me your details I'll get those off in the post for you.

The next thing for me to do is getting my next BOM Block ready.
I'm slightly behind schedule!!!!

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Domestic Bliss Giveaway !!!!

Do you remember a couple of blog posts ago that I told you about a cute little kitchen set that I made??

I sort of promised that a giveaway was to come ... and here it is at last.

I have written up a simple pattern that allows you to make a pretty apron, pot stand and double-oven gloves. There are also suggestions on how to use up any scraps.

My giveaway is for the following;

A copy of my Domestic Bliss pattern

1metre brown spot fabric

1metre pink party-time fabric

1 metre pink wide ric-rac

1 pretty cake pin-cushion

1 needle case in pretty rose fabric

A pack of Clover pink quilters flat-head pins

and a vintage-like tin with thread

It's a pretty good giveaway.

I will also chose 4 other random winners to recieve a copy of my pattern.

Here's what you have to do;

1. Leave a comment on this post for one entry

2. Copy and past my giveaway button on your blog - come back and leave another comment telling me you have done so (I will be checking!!!). That's 2 entries!!!

3. Blog about my giveaway on your blog post - come back leave another comment. That's 3 entries!!!!! Wow. Confused yet????

4. Join my following list - and yes you guessed it - leave another comment telling me you have done so and that gets you entered into my giveaway 4 times!!!!!!

Good Luck.

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Bright and Breezy ...

I have finally managed to complete my multi-coloured blocks that were shown here in a previous blog entry.

I'm so thrilled with the end result that I got rather carried away with the photo's.

Henri approves of my colour choices and is happy with the quilt too.

He looks slightly indifferent here, but I promise that the quilt has had the nod of approval (he didn't mind sleeping under it while I spent two evenings sewing the binding on!!!).

This is a view of the back - which I love - not all the blocks were used on the front and this sort of makes it a reversible quilt.

I thought I had bitten off a lot more than I could chew when I started these lines. That was the whole purpose of making the quilt in the first place - I was desperate to make a quilt with a more modern feel. I laboured with the first quarter, was ready to jump out of the window with the second quarter ... but on I persisted.
By the time I finished the third quarter I was ready to tear my hair out - those lines just did not look straight!!
However, the final quarter seemed to go much quicker, I had finally found my comfort zone and sped through the process (ok, so chocolate and coca cola helped just a little!!).

More than happy with the finished product.

Hope you had a great weekend.

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Block 6 Free Bom; Pamper yourself!!!

I can't believe that we are in September already - where did August go?

If you find it please let me know I could do with just a little bit more time.

I hope you enjoy my latest BOM - it can be found here.

Only three more to go and then a quilt top shall be made!!

Don't forget to come back soon for my 100th post - there's gonna be a giveaway for sure.

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Colour Play Thursday ...

I'm having great fun at the moment, playing with colours whilst trying hard to use up some scraps that I have had since the very first quilt I made.

I started off making my blocks based on a wonky log cabin technique.
Sashing just had to be white - I used a sheet I found for 99p from the Ikea bargain basement bin!

I'm not sure about whether to add a border of coloured squares around my blocks - what do you think???

Hope you've been having as much fun with your creations.

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