Month: November 2010

So here it is after 6 weeks of solid applique! I have so enjoyed designing and making this quilt, I absolutely love it to pieces!!! I hope you like it too!

Quilt Fabric Delights, Stitch in Time, Terang Cottage Crafts, and Cranberry Crafts will be offering this BOM.  Foothills Fabric and threads and Mrs Martins Quilt Shop will also be selling the patterns and possibly starter kits. Foothills will be offering it in pretty colours also (I will show you when I have finished it). Cookies and Cream also will be stocking it!

I will let you know when other shops are joining in too.

Little bird block keeper is also new and available now.

stay tuned for a giveaway very soon……..

Ooohh I am excited, I have lots of new things planned for next year and hopefully will get to meet some of you girls!!

After a great weekend at Australian Quilt Market in Melbourne this week, I thought I had better show you the rest of the blocks from Berries ands Bluebirds.

block 6

block 7

block 8

I will be back tomorrow with some more photos of the finished quilt and also a few new patterns as well.

I will also be able to tell you the shops who are going to run it as a BOM, very exciting!

But for now I need to catch up on housework and also applique 9 more flowers for the quilt I didnt quite finish last week!!

Have a great day everyone

Cheers

Gail

Silly me to take on such a big task as a new quilt in 5 days!!! I started out with wanting to make 26 blocks, then I changed the layout and decided 46 would be good and then I changed my mind again and decided I needed a total of 59 blocks!!!! but they are done and I have cut out the rest of the blocks and to the machine I will go to try and put it together before 6pm. Why 6pm? well it's Jarrod's graduation dinner tonight so no sewing at all after 6pm!!! If I run out of time it will just be a top at Quilt Market and that will be that!

and here is block 5 of "berries and bluebirds"

off I go to sew!!!!

Maybe see you on the weekend!

Cheers

Gail

PS, just got back from graduation. Jarrod received 2 academic awards, one for maths methods and one for specialist maths, so proud of him!!

Here is block 4, can you see how it will all go together yet? I so love this quilt, and had such fun making it.

 even the little flowers were easy to applique!!

I am busy writing patterns now and trying to take photos of my 3 new quilts, but I just have nowhere to hang them! doesn't help when the wind blows either!

Jarrod has his last exam today, so at 1.30pm he will officially finish school, I am so proud of him, he has worked really hard this year and deserves to do well. (he is pretty confident he has!!)

Now I am trying to figure out next year for Keegan as he is doing yr12 and can't get one of the subjects he wants…

So back to the grindstone to get everything finished for AQM in 2 weeks, looking forward to catching up with Nat and having a great time meeting all our great shop owners!

Unitl next time!!

Cheers

Gail

So, I was going to be back a bit earlier with these blocks but you know how life gets in the way!!!

this is block two, with 2 more bluebirds and lots more berries and leaves…

and this is block 3…

I am loving this quilt and am looking forward to having it finished. all the borders are on and the job this weekend is to quilt it. Then the horrible part of writing the pattern…I dont really like this at all…but I love it when it is finished!

Jarrod has only 2 exams left, Monday and Wednesday and then it's all over for high school…..he is so excited and so am I. Then I get to do it all over again next year with Keegan in Yr 12!!

I have also finished the Little Bird sewing set Pattern which will be ready on Monday to go out to shops.

that's all for now, have a great weekend, I am off to help my sister move house and then some quilting in the afternoon.

Cheers

Gail