Reading…….

About 3 weeks ago, I was the lucky winner of a giveaway on Our Craft Forum and won this fabulous book from Sandy.

Sandy wrapped the book in that gorgeous doily as she knows I love them. Thanks Sandy!

I am enjoying reading the book too.

I found this gorgeous little jug in a local thrift shop, that's another thing I love….old jugs!

Another thing I love is tins. There are some fabulous tins out there and when I was doing Folk Art & Decorative painting, I would paint them if they were plain janes.

This one is a thin one but a long one. Cheeky mice!

This one isn't really a little tin but an old metal hat box.

I loved painting this watering can for a lady……she loved it too.

I should get my paints out again and finish off the UFO’s I have that are waiting to be finished.

Hugs to all….

Delightful lovelies….

I was delighted to find these pegs in a store the other day and thought they would look lovely all wrapped up in their lace, ribbon and ricrac dresses.

I love lace, ribbon and ricrac and before I had them just rolled up and kept in a bag. Now it is all tidy and neat.

When I was in Tassie I got some little teeny tiny pegs too….see the ones in the front row? They are great for those small amounts of ribbon and lace.

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Do you love old jewellery? I do and I was privileged to get some the other day from my lovely aunt. These are all clip on earrings and I wont wear them but I will treasure them. I seen on Fee’s blog how she made some fabulous fabric flowers from her Go! Baby and sewed some gorgeous embellishments onto them and is going to use them on her future bags or different things she sews. Great idea Fee. 

I was lucky enough to have the little china box that the earrings came in. I do love ‘old’ things and I really need a great big house to have everything on display.  

Hope you all are having a great week …

Hugs to all…..

A new quilt, wall hanger and other things ….

 

This quilt was a Monthly Sampler BOM that I was in on my craft forum. There were nine of us who were in it and we all sent in a pattern for a block to use and we all made up the blocks each month. We sewed our own blocks so didn't really swap but was still lots of fun. I really enjoyed sewing these blocks and I got brave and machine quilted it as well. Just an all over meandering stipple.

It was fun.

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This wall hanger is finished and this time I machine quilted swirls all over and being a small quilt it was easy enough. Plus I put the legs and eyes on the birds….so at least they can see where they are going to now *grin* I made this from the Go! Baby that I love!

There is still time for you to enter the giveaway over here for a chance to win a Go! Baby all of your own. You will love it *big grin*

If there is enough interest I will do up this wall hanger into a pattern and have it available to download. Let me know if you would like it.

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This little guy just sits on my fridge grinning at us each time we go to the fridge. I painted him quite a few years back but being a purple frog I thought you might like to see him

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This fabulous purple note and pen holder was what the gorgeous Naomi gave me for guessing the little competition she had going a while ago. Thanks Naomi……I love it *smiles*

 

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I was in the shop the other day struggling to walk along with my big “CAM” boot on (I have to wear this for 6 weeks because I fractured a bone in the top of my foot….the day before I went to WA to see my new grandson!)

and…..I spied this sitting on the shelf……now as its purple and would match my cutting mat, I just had to have it…..plus my other one is a bit old now.

Its a really nice iron to use to iron my patchwork and sewing things…..I don't use it for ironing clothes!!

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So its no fun having a fracture in the foot and I can hardly wait for it to be healed. At least it’s my left foot and the car is automatic and so don't need to use that foot. But it is still hard to get in and out of the car tho. No joy at the moment! So a few things to show and tell and let me know if you would like the pattern for the Birds Wall hanger to be available and I will do the pattern up and have it as a freebie.

Hugs to all…….

A Winner for the EQ7!!!!!!!!

Thank you everyone for entering to try to win the EQ7 program I was so very fortunate to have to giveaway from

The Electric Quilt Company

I have thoroughly enjoyed reading your comments and love all your thoughts on EQ7.

I wish I could have had one for all of you as I know you all would benefit from this wonderful program. I know I do and I love using mine.

Without further ado…..the winner of the EQ7 program is……..

random.org picked out the winner and…..

Number 109 is………

Suzie from Millikins.

Congratulations Suzie!!! and I am so excited that you won it and I look forward to seeing all your wonderful creations that you do with the program.

Look for an email Suzie *smiles*

Thanks everyone and have a wonderful day

hugs to all….

Go! Baby Giveaway…wooo hoooo!

I have been given the GO! ahead to give away one Go! Baby Fabric Cutter and three dies.

Are you excited about that? I am!!

You all saw how I had so much fun with mine and shared a tutorial HERE on using the Rickrack, Birds and 2 1/2 inch strip dies on this blog post.

I made this cute wall hanging and I really did have a lot of fun using these dies.

Now you can have a chance to win your very own Go! Baby Fabric Cutter and 3 dies of your choice.

I will give you a few chances to be in the draw to hopefully win your very own Go! Baby Fabric Cutter.

Here’s all you have to do………. 

1 entry - Leave a comment telling me why you would like to own your very own Go! Baby Fabric Cutter and 3 dies.

2 entries - Become a follower of my blog and leave me a comment telling me you are or have become a follower

3 entries – Visit Accuquilt and see which dies you would like and come back and tell me.

4 entries – Blog about it on your blog and come back and tell me you done this.

Please don’t leave any comments on Accuquilt’s Facebook page for my giveaway. I have been asked to tell you this by Accuquilt.

That's all…easy peasy! Of course you don't have to do all four but of course you want to have as many chances as you can right?

Ok…this giveaway will go from now until Sunday 6th November 2011. AEST and I will announce the winner on the 7th November 2011 , you need to make sure I can contact you via email.

Also check out the Get 22 Free Patterns Button on the left side of my blog, all you have to do is sign up with your email and you can download 22 free patterns. Awesome patterns too!

Fingers crossed that you win!

Go! Baby Go!

hugs to all…….

 

A winner has been drawn and this giveaway is now closed.

Hear ye…..Hear ye!! EQ7 Giveaway

 

I really love using my EQ7 full program to design my quilts and different table runners and patterns. From designing these in EQ7 I am able to get exact measurements and know how much fabric I am going to need too.

I designed the Springtime quilt that Fresh Hope now has

 

- This is what I had in EQ7 done up and this is the finished quilt….

All the girls stitched their blocks and Dawn put the quilt together and the pattern was written up from EQ7 and is now available to purchase thru Fresh Hope. But of course you know all this.

A few other patterns that I have had published were designed in EQ7 and I really got to say ….I love this program!!

My Around The Christmas Tree pattern was designed in EQ7 too….

and I find that when I need to work out borders and blocks I put the design into EQ7 and let it work it out for me. So much easier than trying to figure out the maths. Never was any good at that in school. Now if someone had said…..Vicki, you need to learn maths and geometry because later on you will need to use it for patchwork then I might have enjoyed doing it way back then in school.

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Would you like to have an EQ7 full program too?

The Electric Quilt Company has so very generously given me an EQ7 program to give away.

Wow!! How awesome is that? Valued at $189.95 US you just got to agree with me on that.

Ok….here’s what you need to do to hopefully win your very own EQ7 program. This giveaway is open to all over the world.

Each one of these gives you an entry to hopefully win…..

1 entry -  Leave a comment telling me why you would like to own your very own EQ7 program

2 entries - Become a follower of my blog and leave me a comment telling me you are or have become a follower

3 entries -  Share on your Facebook page, then come back here afterwards and leave another comment

4 entries – If you put up a link to my The Pickledish Patch store on your blog (If you have this already just say in a comment on this blog post) - use this link….. http://www.thepickledishpatch.com/store

5 entries - Put my Giveaway button on your blog and let your readers know about my giveaway. Come back here and leave another comment on this blog post telling me you have done it.

Use this button…. Just right click and save to your computer.

(I will check your blogs so please do this or your comment won’t count. )

 

So you have 5 chances of winning this fabulous program.

This giveaway will run from today until 27th October. AEST

So good luck everyone and I hope that you win it.

Hugs to all……

Much excitement !!

 

I have started a new BOM which I got from Block Central and

with a few other ladies from my Craft Forum we are going to sew these blocks together …you can read about it here too… It’s called A Sentimental Journey.

Anyway the instructions were for all the blocks but not the finishing instructions so as I have EQ7 to help me design blocks and quilts and just about anything I can do, I put the blocks into EQ7’s program and then added borders with the corner blocks like it is in the picture.

I have also made the quilt to the size of what Block Central said it is.

I also wanted to see what my choice of fabrics would look like in the quilt,

and so I loaded them up into EQ7 after I downloaded them from the Moda website and the ones that weren't listed there on Moda, I scanned and imported them into my fabric library.

I came up with this…

I am happy with the fabrics and really happy that I can do this with EQ7 as for me to sit down and colour in a graph paper with it all on just bores me to bits.

I will have some exciting news to tell you all soon…but for now its a secret. But you will love it.

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Another fabulous bit of news is that the delivery man came to my door yesterday and gave me a huge parcel.

I was so excited to get this parcel and couldn’t wait to get it inside so I could open it. But first I had to take a piccie of it.

When I opened it I was even more excited as my very own Go! Baby and 3 die sets with their cutting mats were inside!

I got three fabulous dies and I am blown away by these as they are just the biggest dies that I could imagine them to be. I will be playing with these later today and have an idea already…all I could think about when I woke up this morning was what I would make with them.

So Go! Baby…I love you already and cant wait to play with you.

Stay tuned for a tutorial and then more excitement! I can’t wait!!

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Have you been and commented to hopefully win the My Memories Scrapbooking software from my post here?

Its a great program and makes the daggiest pictures look great. Mmm…might have to do a few of me with it.

hugs to all ……..

My Memories and a giveaway.

When I was contacted by MyMemories to review their My Memories digital scrapbooking software I was very excited as I love making my digital photos look great and be more interesting.

 My Memories Suite version 2 software is a complete digital scrapbooking solution that provides a powerful set of creative tools and multiple sharing options that no other software can offer. Its intuitive workspace and enhanced time-saving features are perfect for a beginner to build an entire album in minutes, or to empower the design pro to build a scrapbook album masterpiece.

I love how My Memories Suite will help you build beautiful pages from the digital scrapbooking software and make all your creations look great!

This one is my Out Of The Box BOM.

Or to make a Album using one of the many professionally-designed scrapbook templates provided within the scrapbook software.  

I wanted a template to show one of my designs I had published and this one was just perfect for what I wanted.

I was able to include a journal to describe the design and a few pictures to show too.

I had to do a page with my Bella on it….too cute!!

A large collection of papers and embellishments are available at your fingertips to help you make each page uniquely your own.

Check out this Utube video of My Memories Suite.

http://www.youtube.com/user/MyMemoriesSuite

Would you like to have your own copy of My Memories?

I am thrilled to be able to give one lucky winner a My Memories Suite all of their own. This is available to anyone in the world.

Now are you excited?

If you would like to win a copy of this fabulous My Memories Suite Scrapbook software -

Go to MyMemories and come back and tell me your favourite digital paper pack or layout and leave me a comment here on my blog.

So that’s it…Mr. Random.org will pick a winner in one weeks time….so on the 8th October 2011(Australia time) the winner will be announced and that lucky person will have their very own My Memories digital scrapbooking software just like me.

If you can’t wait until next 8th October 2011 to see if you have won, My Memories is giving my readers a $10 discount off the full price of the My Memories Suite Scrapbook software, together with a $10 coupon for the MyMemories.com store - $20 value all up. At checkout copy and paste this code: STMMMS62153 into the checkout section to receive these discounts. This offer will be available after the draw so don’t worry if you didn’t win you can still get a great bargain.

Have fun and hugs to all…..

It has only taken 3 years! ......Plus a secret to tell.

That’s not long is it? 3 years?

YES!!!!!

Well I was in a Row by Row swap on the Craft Forum back in 2008 and got all the completed rows from those who were in the swap and I sent off rows to those in exchange. It was such a thrill getting the rows in the mail and now I have finally put them all together with sashing in between the rows and a border all the way around.

The next step is to quilt it and then of course bind it. I am really pleased with it and my darling hubby loves it! So I am going to surprise him with it as his very own quilt. He doesn't read my blog so it will stay a surprise. *grin*

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My secret……..Have you been excited lately?

I hope you have and well I have…I was contacted by Accuquilt this morning to tell me they are giving me a Go! Baby Fabric Cutter and it’s now on its way to my doorstep for me to play with!! Soooo excited about this *big toothy smile* and I can hardly wait for it to get here to play with it and soon after I will have one to give away too.

Stay tuned for this as I know you would love to win one.

I am doing the happy dance here!

Thank you Accuquilt…can hardly wait to play.

Have a great day everyone

Hugs to all……