Magnificent Monday ...

It's magnificent because the sun is out, the sky is blue and everything in the garden looks rosy.

My friendship quilt is completed and looking lovely airing on the line.
This is a Strawberry plant with dew covering each curve of the leaf - it looked gorgeous and I couldn't resist taking it's picture.

This is my Henri boy, a loveable little chap with a heart of gold and such funny characteristics.

He enjoyed his favourite game of 'bark-at-the-bubbles' - he is such a water-babe!!!.

Hope that whatever you're doing you are having as equally a 'magnificent Monday' as I am.


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A suitable name ...

I've wanted to have a go at a 'Book shelf' quilt since I saw one in a Modern Quilt book by Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr, so when I remembered (eventually) that I had committed to entering a quilt challenge at my local quilt shop I just knew the time had come to give it a go.

The challenge was to make a quilt which simply had to use one of two free fabric FQ's. There are two themes this year ' traditional' and 'modern' and I was dying to get my hands on the Moda Authentic range under the 'modern' category.

I adore these fabrics - there is something that should be intrinsically wrong about beige, black, white and lime-green mixed together. If I were to pick colours out of the sky these would not be my colours of choice, but THEY WORK.

I am loving my book case - there is one more shelf to go and it will be complete. There is something missing that I can't quite put my finger on so I'm going to leave it for the weekend, spend some quality time with dear hubby and doggie and come back to it, fresh next week.

What do you think I should call it, I'm thinking of something literary or a play-on-words ...

any ideas ?????

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Free Bom; Block 3 Have your cake ... and eat it!!!

I can only apologise most sincerely for my recent lack of blogging and lateness with my free BOM. I've not only had problems downloading photo's from my camera (which doesn't help) but car problems and now fraudulent transactions to deal with. It'll all get sorted soon!!

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Anyway, here is my little lady this month about to chow down a super-large portion of a delicious cake, with not a jot of guilt. It slightly resembles the massive piece of cake I managed to get through on Saturday at my local quilt group, which was fantastic as always.
As you can see I am up-to-date with bordering the fabrics in my favourite Moda "Posh" fabrics, please don't look too closely as some of the stitching was a little hasty and not altogether perfect (I like to call it 'rustic').

Hope you all enjoy this and the rest of the week.


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Friendship Friday

I have been watching the progress made on Lyn's blog 'Bluebird Quilts' for Illene's quilt and sat in awe when she made a post of one of the completed quilts shown on the link here . I was mesmerized by how many of those blocks, all made by different people across the USA and worldwide worked together to create such a beautiful, interesting and colourful quilt. It is indeed a quilt of friendship.

Of course the little cogs (and I do mean little) in my brain started whiring away and I wondered what they would look like in a different colour-scheme. How about 'Blues' I thought - haven't worked with the blues since I produced a Sun-Bonnet Sue quilt years ago (in fact my first blog post).

So, I ordered some fabrics from Makower's 'China Blue' range. Then I thought, hmmmm ... that quilt is mighty big for me to quilt ... how about making it smaller. My blocks turned out to be 5" square (2" nine patches), which I'm glad to say will measure a more manageable 120cm square once completed (or thereabouts) - I'm not sure I can handle queensize just yet!!

Anyway, thank you Lyn for your inspiration and indeed to all you bloggers who mesmerize, amaze and inspire me every day.



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Home Sweet Home ...

I can't take credit for these pretty little pieced houses, they were donated to the Linus box at my local quilting group and were simply asking to be put together for a little one. I have used some colourful fabric to create a little neighbourhood for some little critters peeking through windows.

Happy Thursday everyone.
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Busy, busy, busy ....

I have been fairly busy for the past few weeks so I apologise for my lack of blogging skills.

I have managed to finish the orchid quilt and I was more than happy with the results. It was delivered to it's new owner last week and she was thrilled to bits.


This is a detail of the stippling which I'm glad to say I now have under control - no more looping at the back since I had my Janome serviced and the result is much tidier and consistent.

I have also managed to make my Jack Russel Henri his own quilt for the sofa where he spends a lot of his time in the evenings, snuggled up like a baby!!

This Sweetie Jar quilt is also almost finished and will be a Linus quilt, I have completely finished another quilt too which I forgot to take pictures of.

Today I'm off to the studio to prepare some work for a class in beginner patchwork that I have just started teaching, I also hope to frame up the stitcheries for the 'Take Time To ...' BOM so I can have something to show you next time and hopefully finishing up the sweetie jars.

I will leave you for now with this beautiful flowering Cherry tree which caught my eye in a local park last week.

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