Month: August 2010

Hi I'm back with my new quilt "Somerhill House" made with The Brick House fabric.

I love this range and knew I had to make a quilt with it. I have quilted it with perle 8 ecru thread, you know I just love to hand quilt (nearly wore through the top of my finger as I don't use a thimble!!)

I have a couple of copies of this pattern to give away so leave me a comment and I will send them out next week to the winners (chosen using my random number generator, Liam!!!)

I have a lot of trouble coming up with names for my quilts and other projects so for this one I wanted something a little different. I wanted to use "house" at the end but what to call it!!!

My dad is from England and a long time ago when I visited relatives, I stayed with my Great Aunt in Patcham (near Brighton, Sussex, still trying to work this village name into a quilt!!!!)

I google mapped Brighton and looked at all the street names nearby and there it was……Somerhill Road…..sounded good to me…sounded perfect actually!!!

so there you go…weird hey!!

And one more question…….should I facebook?? I have been thinking about it and not sure if I will have time but then again….it could be fun!

Have a great week everyone and keep warm!!

Cheers

Gail

P.S the quilt is at Foothills now and they stock all the fabric for a kit.

I have been working very hard this last few weeks and now have a new pattern made out of the Brick House collection from Windham fabrics. I loved it as soon as I saw it at Foothills Fabric and Threads!

I have made this block

 

and some of these blocks

 

and some of these blocks

and now need to finish up the pattern writing and take a full shot of the quilt, I will be back later this week with the final photo.

I still need to finish the quilt for Homespun and write that pattern too so I can see some serious computer time coming up this week….

and we are having a Japanese student for the week, and again next week, they are part of a school trip to visit Liam's school and since both my older boys went to Japan last year and stayed with host families we thought it would be nice to have a student stay with us.

and one last mention, Cookies and Cream is a new online shop in Aus, check it out here!!

Have a great week and stay warm (or cool!)

Cheers from freezing Melbourne!!

Gail

Jan in NZ sent me this photo of her Provence quilt, all made from fabrics in her stash.

It is absolutely gorgeous!!

I am so excited to see it and to show it to you as a lot of people are having trouble seeing it in other fabrics, do you agree it is stunning!

I just love it!!!

well done Jan and thanks so much for sending me a photo!!

what fabrics are you using? I would love to see them!

Have a great weekend

Cheers

Gail

Well, what can I say, what a fantastic weekend Nat and I had in Port Pirie!!!

these gorgeous flowers were on the tables……made by Robyn.

Robyn and Maxine

Glenys and Maxine

Louise with her version of my quilt "all things Christmas", absolutely gorgeous!!!

Meredith doing her best to look like she is doing something other than talking and laughing!!! Great to see you Meredith…(see you and Georgette in September..)

Robyn did a fantastic job, the food was divine, the girls were hilarious (and very keen to learn,) the shop IS gorgeous (so if you are passing through Port Pirie you MUST stop and look!!)

A big thank you to everyone for such a warm welcome, I felt like I had known the girls for a long time.

So nice to catch up with Lorraine (who has more photos on her blog and thanks for the hug from Stina!!!) and Julie (a BIG thank you and a BIG hug for driving us to the airport) and thanks Emma for the honey!!!

Thanks Robyn for making us feel so welcome and for putting us up at the most gorgeous place to stay in Pirie!! (more photos later!)

Update; Robyn has a blog now click here   see some more photos!

For now I need to catch up on some sleep, I had a little sleep in, as my boys were great this morning and got themselves off to school without me to push them along!!!

Back with more later in the week

Cheers

Gail

PS. I won't show any photos of the projects yet as I will be teaching them again at The Quilters Harvest in Oct…maybe I will see you there!