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Before I head off to Norway, I have a couple of other workshops to do. Marcia at Attic Quilts had to postpone her workshop due to no water or electricity!!! It is now being held on the 5th of Sept and here is a little look at one of my projects… same sort of stitchery but different projects. Contact Marcia  if you would like to join us…

I will also be at Candleberry Country on the weekend of the 19th & 20th of September and will have 3 new Christmas projects for you…

I have used the gorgeous Crazy Eight fabric to make this project…..an opportunity to learn a little needleturn applique if you would like. Contact Natalie for the details….it is always a great weekend!!

both of these shops are gorgeous so I will see you there!!!!!

Cheers
Gail

The months are just flying past and we are up to block 8 of A Christmas Wish.

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Enjoy!!!

Oh and here is a sneak peek of a couple of the projects for Norway…

Cheers
Gail

As promised, here is a picture of the cover of my book. It will be available at the end of August. (all going well!!)

I hope you like it!!! It has been a long time in the making and I am very nervous………..

and check out on the left for the Flickr album of A Christmas wish BOM……take a look at some blocks!!!

Cheers
Gail

A day late but better late than never!!! The 3 winners of "buttons & bows" are Monika,
Noela and Jo from the farm. Let me know your address and I will post the patterns off to you. Congratulations I hope you enjoy stitching this!!!

I am having a little trouble putting the image of my book on here, will have to wait until my sons come home from school to help me!!!

I don't normally put photos of my kids on this blog but I am going to show a picture of my eldest son Jarrod. He was involved in a Deb ball on Sat night and looks very handsome….even if I do say so myself!!!

I will be back with more photos soon,

Cheers
Gail

Birds, bees, buttons and bows, this is how my give away goes!!!!!

If you would like to win a copy of my new pattern "Buttons & Bows", please leave a comment. I will be back next week (lets say…Tuesday) with winners. I have 3 to give away so what are you waiting for!

By the way, my book is off to the printers tomorrow so …….coming soon….(in about 4-5 weeks!!!)……. I will give you all a look at the cover next time!!!

Have a great weekend

Cheers
Gail

I have had a lovely weekend at Rawson with the Pakenham Patchworkers. I went with my friends Ramona and Sue and we sewed all weekend!! Oh and we ate too!!! the food was yummy yummy and a few lollies and chocolate managed to sneak themselves onto the table too. We did promise that we wouldn't eat as much as last year and we didn't!!!

Here is Ramona with the bag she made on Sat, both Sue and I made one too and we were feeling very pleased with ourselves!!!

Fiona spent a lot of time quilting her "Journey of a quilter"

Julie finished stitching her top of my pattern "believe in the magic", it looks fantastic!!

It is always a great weekend and we really enjoyed it! Thanks Barb, Chris and Fiona for letting us sit with you, we had a ball and lots of laughs too!!
Hope to see you next year Kerryn!!

until next time!!

Gail

Natalie and I had a great weekend in Tassie (boy it's cold there!) with Brenda and the girls from Blue Willow Cottage. I met up with Sarah and Cathy and lots of other ladies. Here is my pink project which I have now released as a pattern. (thanks Chris for a great workshop!)

It is called "buttons and bows" and will be available next week from your local patchwork shop. If they don't have it, ask them to order it for you!!!

Here are Jan and Nicole having a lovely time catching up and sewing a few stitches.

We also had time to go to the Evandale market where I had a lovely time buying more baskets for my home. It was a bit tricky getting them on the plane but I managed okay!!
Friday I am off to Rawson with the Pakenham quilters and I will be ready for the cold weather there!! I hope to have a relaxing weekend with my friends Sue and Ramona.

Until next time….(where there might just be a give away!!)

Gail

Good Morning everyone…it is chilly here in Melbourne and I plan to stay inside and stitch all day! (although I really should go for a walk!!)

Here is block seven for you all….."delight" is this month's block….

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Enjoy!!! and I will be back on Monday with some photo's from my Tassie trip!!!and a reveal of my "pink" project!!

Gail

since I have posted (although I still have been reading lots of blogs!!). Most of the projects I am working on a secret, I have done something for Homespun Magazine for next year. I have finished 4 of the projects I am taking to Norway in September. I have been busy working on a new logo with the fabulous Anthea, (who is also putting my book together…it's starting to take shape) so I will have something to show next week.
I am also working on projects for a few workshops coming up in the next few months…(only 11 and a bit weeks until Norway!!)
Next weekend will see me in Tassie with the fun loving Natalie (check out her new logo!!)
and I will be releasing a new pattern after that (remember the pink?) I hope we won't be too cold in Tassie but it's going to be a lot of fun!!!
So I don't have any sneak peeks at the moment but I have a photo of the jonquils in my front yard!!

See you on Tues for the next block of A Christmas Wish!!

Cheers
Gail

Happy Wednesday everyone!! I have been to the graphic designer this morning and my book is soon going to be a reality…how exciting (and scary at the same time!!)

I have also received an email from Marcia at Attic Quilts with more details about a workshop she is running…….I will be there with some new projects…. click the following link for the flyer (need to wait for geek sons to come home to work out how to put flyer on blog!!!)

Download Antics In The Attic  

It is on Saturday July 25th at Attic Quilts in Berwick, Marcia has a great shop and it sounds like it will be a fun day. I would love for you to join us!!!

another sneak peek from the book!!!

hope to see you at Attic Quilts!!!

Cheers

Gail