Month: March 2009

Thought I might do some show and tell this time. At Thursday's class for December's Garden, I took a couple of photos of finished blocks.

This one is Willy's, she is blanket stitching hers and it looks great!

This one is Lillian's, she is doing needleturn applique and it looks fabulous too!

I have made a little progress on my pink project…..can't show anything yet but maybe a sneak peek will appear soon!!!

We are having a glorious sunny day in Melbourne today. I hope you are having a nice day wherever you are!!!

Bye for now!!

Gail

I am not usually a pink type of girl but I bought these fabrics today from Foothills.  I need to design a project for a workshop and I wanted to push myself to design in different colours. The perle thread will be for quilting and the pink DMC for some of the stitching. The pink ric rac will finish it off. So what do you think?

and just because I have nothing else to do (yeah right!!!), somebody who will remain nameless    talked me into making this quilt with her….what was I thinking??? Of course I think it will take about 10 years but it should be fun and I am looking forward to starting this week.

I am also starting some new projects for a fantastic workshop that I will be teaching at later in the year. Details will be out shortly but lets just say that I am sooooo EXCITED to be going and to meeting some lovely ladies.

In the meantime I have booked to go to Inspired Stitches with my friend Sue. It will be great fun to catch up with all the girls in SA and maybe to get a stitch or two done!!! (not likely I think I will spend most of the day talking!!!!!)

Bye for now

Gail

What a glorious day we are having in Melbourne today….I have received 2 mags in the mail this week…Homespun and Country Threads…..and I have a project in each of them….at the time I didn't know they would be out in the same week…because the mags work so far ahead, I always forget when one of my projects is in them!!!

This is the Homespun project, a bag to carry all the bits you need without being toooooo big!!!!!!

and this is Aimee's Quilt for Country Threads ……all very exciting!!!!

And I just have to show you these blocks from Di …..absolutely gorgeous

Di has used a fabric range called Return to Romance by Maywood Studios …it is simply divine…..go over to Di's blog if you would like to know where to get the fabric.

Well, back to the drawing board (literally!!) as I try to come up with some projects for a couple of retreats that I will be teaching at this year…stay tuned!!

Have a good weekend
Cheers
Gail

Thank you to everyone who has joined in with my BOM. Here is block 3…..JOY…. I hope you like it!!!

Click this link to download the file Download Block 3 joy
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Jeanette has started a Flickr group for this BOM so here is the link Flickr group a christmas wish . It will be fun to see how people are making their blocks I know there are a lot out there but I am quickly losing track of you all!! I have seen some great blocks in blogland and Flickr will be a great way to show them off!!!

Have fun…..

Cheers
Gail

yes I have finished my cross stitch "Little House Neighbourhood". I changed the wording slightly as in Australia we spell neighbour with a "u"and I decided to do it like we spell it!!! I absolutely love this and will now put it away to be framed at a later date (when I get around to it !!!) Now that I have the cross stitch bug back I am looking through my patterns to see what to do next….but first I will continue on with some patterns for workshops and also for my book.
It is a long weekend here in Vic and I am going camping…..It has finally rained after 2 months and I love the rain but not when I am in a tent! Hopefully it will stop long enough and then pour next week.It has certainly been very welcome.

I will post the next block on Sat morning nice and early…which may mean Friday for some of you!!!

Take care

Gail

Hi everyone……Here I am on Monday afternoon after a lovely lunch with friends and a lovely weekend. I went to the Quilt Convention on Sat and had a lovely day with Sandra and Lesley from Foothills Fabric & Threads. I also met some lovely girls from Tassie, all with blogs, it was so nice to be able to put faces and names to blogs….I think we caused a little traffic jam just chatting away!!! I also bought some gorgeous fabric (as you do!!) this little bundle is from the great girls at The Quilted Crow

and this gorgeous set of fabrics (which I am using in my book…I have the perfect project!!!) I bought from Jane at The Patchwork Apple

and now onto the winners!!! I must say a big thank you to all who commented…..how fantastic to receive over 300 comments!!! I used my random number generator (Liam) to pick 3 winners and they are……lappequri….Peta Jane…and Deborah (2nd March 5.14am)…so let me know your address and I can pop the patterns in the post.
The quilt pattern is available to purchase from any of the stores listed on the left side of my blog….or contact your local store and they will be able to get it in for you!!!

back to the sewing room for me, I need to put the binding on a quilt for Homespun and post it off this week. (ps look out for the next issue of Homespun…I have a project in there…can't wait for it to arrive)

I'll be back on Sat morning with block 3…until then, have a great week and keep safe!!

Gail

Hi everyone……Here I am on Monday afternoon after a lovely lunch with friends and a lovely weekend. I went to the Quilt Convention on Sat and had a lovely day with Sandra and Lesley from Foothills Fabric & Threads. I also met some lovely girls from Tassie, all with blogs, it was so nice to be able to put faces and names to blogs….I think we caused a little traffic jam just chatting away!!! I also bought some gorgeous fabric (as you do!!) this little bundle is from the great girls at The Quilted Crow

and this gorgeous set of fabrics (which I am using in my book…I have the perfect project!!!) I bought from Jane at The Patchwork Apple

and now onto the winners!!! I must say a big thank you to all who commented…..how fantastic to receive over 300 comments!!! I used my random number generator (Liam) to pick 3 winners and they are……lappequri….Peta Jane…and Deborah (2nd March 5.14am)…so let me know your address and I can pop the patterns in the post.
The quilt pattern is available to purchase from any of the stores listed on the left side of my blog….or contact your local store and they will be able to get it in for you!!!

back to the sewing room for me, I need to put the binding on a quilt for Homespun and post it off this week. (ps look out for the next issue of Homespun…I have a project in there…can't wait for it to arrive)

I'll be back on Sat morning with block 3…until then, have a great week and keep safe!!

Gail