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How exciting for me that four of my quilts will be at the International Pacific Quilt Fair in Santa Clara, California

Mary Jane from The Christmas Shoppe will have them on display and will be selling patterns!!!

A Christmas Welcome

Peace, hope and love

Provence

and Somerhill House

I hope that you will be able to go….and say Hi to Mary Jane for me!!

It is a very rainy day today, such a good day for sewing!!!

have a great weekend, maybe I will see you on Sunday at Quilts in the Barn?

Cheers

Gail

 

Linda at Gum Valley Patchwork has made up "Somerhill House" in the gorgeous 3 sisters range "Luna Notte"

Don't you just love it!!!

If you would like a kit, contact Linda at Gum Valley Patchwork

Thanks so much Linda for making a gorgeous sample!!!

Also, Sarah over at Quilt Fabric Delights has a new club starting and my project is first!!! Here is a little peek at what it is…..

sorry it's a bit blurry……!!

I have used Rural Jardin fabrics which are just divine!!

So contact Sarah to join up!!

Back with some exciting news at the end of the week!!

Cheers

Gail

 

What a wonderful day Melly, Natalie and I had at Warracknabeal on Saturday.

We drove up on Friday and set up our samples then it was off to Del's house for a delicious dinner. Talk about fantastic food, what a feast, topped off with apple crumble and a yummy, yummy lemon cake!

All the ladies had a great time, some even had their eye on the Grand Final replay, I must say the Collingwood supporters were very quiet, even thought their team won, too busy stitching I guess!!

At the end of a long day!!!

The Quilter's Harvest have more photo's on their blog, I almost forgot to take photo's I was that busy!!!!

Back soon with some little peeks at what I am working on.

Cheers

Gail

Okay, so it's been a while, but I have been busy stitching, this is what I have been up to….

Stitcher's keeper designed

 
by Leanne

Some scrappy blocks (mocha swirl in the book Scrap basket surprises)

and a new design using the gorgeous Sweet broderie fabric by Rosalie

I have yet to decide on a name (surprise, surprise!!!) so will spend time thinking about that while I quilt it.

I am off to Warracknabeal on Friday to teach at a workshop with Nat and Melly. Hosted by the wonderful girls at The Quilter's Harvest, it's on Saturday, which will be rather interesting as the Grand Final replay will be on and I am sure there will be a few girls listening in to the radio in the afternoon.

and if you are in need of a mystery project you may like to go over to Sarah's and see what she is up to

back to the machine……

Have a good week and maybe I will see you on Saturday!

Cheers

Gail

I have been taking photos on my phone whenever I am shown a project from one of my designs. Quite often it is while I am working at Foothills. So I finally got Keegan to get them from my phone to the computer.

Are you ready?

This first one is called "country kitchen" and was made by Willy who replaced some of the stitching with applique (remember they were taken with my phone so they may be a bit blurry)

 

this one is "provence" made by Marg, who sent it to Canada!! (a bit different to the original!!)

 

this one is amazing as it is so different to the original(again!!! it is great to see!) made by Helen. it is called "summer's bouquet"

 

Helen not only changed the stitchery colours but also the "lace" colours around the applique ovals!! What do you think? (the fabric is called Sophia)

And I received these photos by email from Bente in Norway, a beautiful version of "busy little Christmas elves". fabrics by the buggy barn, quilted by Merete, pattern from Siw at Quiltegaarden

 

Hanne has also made it you can see photos on her blog. (scroll down a little!!!)

Pop over to Terry's blog too to see "A Christmas wish" also

I think that' it for now, I am off to "Immerse" tomorrow and a wedding on Sunday, a busy weekend!!!

Have a good weekend

Cheers

Gail

Here is my new quilt, all quilted, bound and photographed!!! I have nearly finished writing the pattern (I really don't like this bit!) and hopefully it will be in stores at the end of next week.

I absolutely love this quilt, it has to be my new favourite…..I got a lovely parcel in the mail from Siw, and these fabrics were in there!!! Such a gorgeous surprise and I had the perfect project (just needed the time LOL!!) and finally it is done.

A big thanks to Robyn who suggested the name last night after I had changed it about a dozen times!!!

as you can see the wind was having a play and is was so difficult to get it to be still!!! Luckily Liam was home and I roped him in to be quilt holder….

not bad !! Of course the pattern cover will look a little different.

Now to finish the pattern writing!

Have a good weekend

Cheers

Gail

Hi, thanks all for such lovely comments the past couple of weeks. I have been busy on my next project and have a couple of little looks for you…

as you can see by the pins, I am about to quilt it on "Sabrina" (bernina!!!)

I am loving this quilt and while I am still playing will try to come up with a nice name!!!! (back to google maps maybe LOL!!)

and I gave in and am now on facebook, haven't wasted too much time but it was so nice to be able to chat with Laila last weekend….(only for an hour!!) and to reconnect with some lovely people I have met overseas and here in Aus.

Off to quilt I go!!!

Be back soon!!

Cheers

Gail

Wow, I have had such a busy week, as well as having a birthday, Liam getting braces, working, hosting a Japanese student (who loves to shop so I spent a lot of time shopping!!) having a lovely day out at Healesville Sanctuary, I managed a little time sewing….not much to show yet but I will show you the fabrics I used

 

gorgeous fabrics from Whimsicals with a few others in there as well….

and now to the winners of the "Somerhill House" pattern…

...Satu and Jennifer

if you would email me your address please and I will pop them in the post asap!!!

Thanks for all your lovely comments, it was nice to read them all and then have a little trip around blogland to read all the blogs that were linked.

I have decided to do facebook, will wait for my kids to help me tonight..(yeah I know it's easy…..but they need to help their mother sometimes!!!) will let you now how I go!!!

We have had a few lovely days of sunshine but are back to the cold and rain now, spring is here but I am happy for it to rain a bit longer!!

Enjoy the rest of your week

Cheers

Gail

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