Wedding quilting.....

I love a good wedding and love a good wedding quilt.
What I don't love is bad photo's of good wedding quilts but here we go anyway.
Hope the happy couple love it as much as I loved making. It does have a story though.....

I have a 4 year old that is "fun". So first I sewed up the triangles and then laid it all out. 196 squares in total. Thank heaven's I took a picture as the "fun" child walked through them, throwing them in the air and telling me it was raining. Hmm, it wasn't received well but I could do nothing but laugh and then spend another few hours laying it out again.

Then, all sewed up and ready for sandwiching. Where do I find it? Apparently the dog was cold and the "fun" child decided to give her a new blanket. So I then had to wash it prior to the next quilting process. Do I think he was done yet....no. I then started to sandwich, where is my spray glue, well, let's say the backyard fort is pretty sticky.

All up though, I was happy in the end and it is perfect size for a big snuggle under.

Inspired by this zig zag quilt and a new little baby girl being born, it was a very late sewing night last night. What a fabulous little quilt to make and a great way to use up scraps.

Shocking photo's, I really do need to get better at the pictures.

For Harvey

For a beautiful little boy: http://harveythecourageouslion.blogspot.com/

I'm back

It's been a while. My PhD is on the home stretch and kept me busier than I thought possible therefore I must regain myself with sewing. I didn't sew for 12 months, it was horrible.

So a sample of my Christmas gift quilt, latchhooks (yeah I know, but it was brainlessly fun at the time) and a sneak peak at a quilt that is frantically being put together for a sick little boy.

Cooking in the Summer.

I just love summer cooking so thought in the absence of a few sewing pic's, would throw these in.
First, Passata with fresh basil. Makes the best pasta sauce and now I have a stack ready to go now in the bottom of the pantry.



Then, a trip to the strawberry and cherry farm today meant first eating our weight in the most divine strawberries in the world and then 5kg bought home to make jam and potted fruit. I ran out of jars though so half went in the freezer for jam and these ended up ready to go: Potted Strawberries and Cherries in vodka and raspberry wine. There are a few just in the sugar syrup as well for the kids. Perfect over icecream - YUM!

The mess.

I always love looking at others creative areas on blogs so thought I would quickly take some pics of the sewing room in it's natural state.

Some of the stash (or rather, just a little of the stash)

Some of the lovely dolls quilts from swaps and have one more to pop up.












Some of the Christmas bags for presents that have gone out or are ready to go out filled with goodies.


Lastly a sneak at the latest project that I hope to have done by Christmas.

EB DQS

It's that time of year again, EB's dolls quilt swap. While eagerly waiting the opening of the parcel, I know my swappee has it in her hot little hands.

I was so happy with how it turned out so hope she likes it. She listed red and aqua as favourite colours and liked heavily quilted quilt so hopefully she will like this one.

Lugger Bags

Inspired by the clever blogger Milly, I've made some lugger bags over the last few months.

The first was for an EB swap. Still not sure if my swapee liked it but I thought it was fantastic and would have loved to keep it.

This next one was my older son's request as a present for his teacher's birthday. They are his hand prints all over it. I really hope she likes it.


They are super easy to make and I took the opportunity to print some more fabric with hands for grandparents and creche leaders with both boys. More bag pictures to come.

EB Dolls Quilt Swap

It's getting longer between posts, but that doesn't mean nothing is going on.

I will post some of the lovely swap items I have received lately. My camera isn't working so I am finding it difficult to do some posts.

Here is a sneaky peak at the design of a dolls quilt for the EB dolls quilt swap. I am just loving it and am going to have a lot of trouble popping it in the post.

DQS7 - Swap Time again

It's that time again when off to the wild blue yonder goes a quilt.

I was lucky enough to get someone on the other side of the world this time that gave me my the option of "Quilter's Choice" and encouraged quilters to try something new.

This gave me the perfect chance to try thread painting. A technique I have wanted to try for some time and gave it a crack about 6 months ago and gave up. I was determine though to do this!

It involved first the drawing and painting with fabric paint:
Then filling in with thread and quilting:



It looked a tad plain so added a couple of stars and beads:Add a border, little more quilting (and shocking photography.....I promise it is square!) and we're done!














While a far cry from my usual type of quilting I am stoked with the results. Hope my swap partner in the far yonder of the USA is happy with their package.

Link to a Give Away

It's been a while between posts only because it's been a while between projects. I couldn't however miss sharing this give away. Love my rocket ship.....then meet the designer: Kellie. Her quilts are amazing and I've just bought her Christmas Tree pattern on her blog so hopefully will get that made before Christmas. She has a great giveaway at the moment.

The last baby on the block.

Another baby is on the block and of course needed a nice little something to snuggle in.

Inspired by Don't look Now and her cute as Rocket ships, this quilt was full of robots and space ships. The red swirls just look wrong in this photo but I just loved the fabric so much I had to include it.

2 quilts in 2 weeks

What a week!

New babies and new house, mean new quilts!

Flannel Quilt
First one is in all snuggly flannels for a little baby that is meant to still be cooking but instead is the SNU. She'll be out soon though as she is a little fighter.

















Spiderweb Quilt
Then, friends bought/built their first home and we had the fortune to visit it today. The house is just lovely! They have great style so I was a tad concerned this wouldn't match but it looked like it would fit in. I did think I had another week or 2 finish it so when I got the email inviting us over for lunch today......let's just say there was not a lot of sleep and the threads in the photo were trimmed off in the car. I just love the fabric and the design though.

DQS6 - Is received.

My apologies to Xena for taking so long to blog this, but it is hanging up in the sewing room. Conferences, ethics and study have kept getting in the way.

I received for my swap this lovely little landscape. The bird is cute as a button with little detail. The cliff face is my favourite. I was sure it was a path but now that it is hanging I see how it was designed.

Thank you Xena.

Here are some photo's of my favourite parts. Of course as I've gone to blog this, I've realised that I have no photo of the full quilt and now my camera is packed in readiness for QLD. You have to pop over to Xena's for better photo's.

DQS6 - Is home

It arrived safe, sound and loved. Phew!!

The Fishies: