Still sewing and stitching…..

I have done 5 blocks in the Stitch-A-Long with Chookyblue and am still way behind. But I will catch up.

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I have also done a couple of blocks for the BOMs I am doing on Our Craft Forum. I am enjoying doing these blocks as they are what others have chosen.

   

I am doing them in these colours for a reason. I think someone is going to love the finished quilt. Well ….let’s say….I hope they will love the finished quilt.

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The next lot of blocks are from a BOM a few of us are doing from Our Craft Forum and I am making them from the same fabrics but in each one they look different. Just goes to show the different lighting makes things look so different.

Got five blocks to go and then its putting them all together.

You know I still have a couple of other BOMs I have not finished yet. You would think I would get them done first before I started new ones. But I think that is a patchworker’s prerogative…to have several projects on the go at one time. There is no excuse for not having anything to do then. *grin*

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A couple of you remember your Mum and Grandmothers using the Rickets Blue cubes and also in bags and its great to hear your stories. The Rickets Blue was put into the final rinse for whites so that they didn’t yellow and were brighter.

Happy sewing everyone and hugs to all….

Finished another quilt …I am on a roll…

I made these blocks with Rachel Griffith from ps i quilt when she did her Pin Wheel Sampler quilt-along and she has the blocks available still if you want to do them also..just look under her Tutorial section.

I also used some of the blocks from the Mystery Sampler BOM from the Craft Forum back in 2010. I decided to add them together in one quilt as I had plenty of the fabrics that I used. Its turned out to be a very long quilt and will be great for snuggling up under or using on a single bed.

I used a gorgeous pink wide back for the backing which suited it perfectly.

I love a quilt rolled up ….it just looks so comfy.

I machine quilted it by doing all over meandering.

Today I am going to make another block for the Sentimental BOM that I am doing also and another little block from a Charm Square BOM from the Craft Forum

This will be the last block for this fabulous BOM and then I can put it together.

What are you sewing today?

Have a great week

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 ……..

A new quilt BOM-along.

A few of the ladies from the craft forum and I are doing a BOM-along.

Marg wanted to do this quilt

and Cheryl said she wanted to do it too and so of course I had to as well….so we shared it with the ladies on the craft forum and a few of them are joining in with us to do it as a block a month.

It’s called Sentimental Journey and is a free pattern from Block Central. 12 blocks all up….so will be fun encouraging each other along on our journey.

We decided that the first block was to start in September and then a block each month there after.

I love the blocks and was quite eager to get started.

So while I was waiting for September to get here I picked out my fabrics …(Park Avenue and Luna Knott. Love ‘em!)

and downloaded the pdf’s with the instructions for the blocks.

Today I couldn’t wait any longer and made the first block.

It was such fun and lots of preciseness …..if that is a word.

I am very happy with how the fabrics are working together and the dark fabric is actually the one that looks brown in the top picture but actually it is a dark green. To see where the fabrics looked good in what part of the blocks I put the blocks in to EQ7 and rearranged the fabrics until I was happy with them. Love EQ7 too!

Prior to making the Sentimental Journey block I made this block……

for the Mystery BOM that I am doing with a few of the ladies from the craft forum. 

Also a Framed Hexagon had to be made for Joma as she was the one I was sending to this month. She wanted anything to do with the garden as her theme, so I hope she likes this one. 

So already a bit of sewing happening for the month and I should receive Issue #4 of Leanne Beasley's Vignette magazine either tomorrow or Tuesday so will be able to post your issue off to you if you have pre-ordered one. It looks good! I ordered in extra issues so if you didn’t pre-order one, you can still get them from HERE.

Hugs to all……