Santa Sack Swap arrived

I am participating in Cheryll's Santa Sack Swap....

 

.....and look what just arrived this morning!

My swap partner was Peg Coen.

Aren't I a lucky ducky?  Just itching to open them!

Until next post...

Jewells

Block 1 & 2

This week while my quilting machine has been covered over due to the renovations to my sewing room, I was able to get onto Block 2 of the BOM I have been doing.

 Then I added it to Block 1

 I have Block 3 sitting here waiting to be done & Block 4 should be arriving sometime this week.

This is what it is going to look like when finished....one day.

Until next post....

Jewells

Dungog Show Wins

First time ever...

I won a Champion ribbon for something I made:

 This quilt was made up of 12 embroidered squares, then joined together to make one HUGE quilt.

I made the embroidered squares (a few years ago) in a workshop on learning how to master my Bernina Artista embroidery machine.

They sat in my cupboard for a while before I worked out how I wanted to join them together...as I embroidered them all "on point".

Now that it is finished, it is rolled up and again stowed away in a cupboard.

This is one quilt that I am keeping for "me".

I received 3 other "Firsts" at the show:

This is one of the table runners I will have at my sale next month, but the jam & the pickles are now in my fridge for us to eat.

I am one happy little Vegemite with my wins!

Until nest post...

Jewells

I learnt something new

On Wednesday, I was invited to spend a one on one lesson with a lovely lady in a town nearby.  She had perfected a crazy patchwork quilt using cut up denim jeans.

She uses all of the jeans...zippers, pockets, labels, and the legs are mainly used as the borders in between each rectangle.

Here is my first 15" x 17" rectangle:

 Then she got me to use an actual pocket:

I was half way thru making one with a fly, but the day got away from me and I had to come home.

It is a bit like quilt as you go, but you work on a piece of fabric instead of wadding.

Not enough hours in a day to keep doing it at the moment, but I will defineately get back to it as soon as possible.

Until next post...

Jewells

2 Quilts Finished _ Tractor & Chickens

Another 2 quilts finished by "Mum & Me".

Both are for my Quilt & Craft Sale in December.

In between customer's quilts, I managed to quilt & bind the "Girl Feeding the Chickens" quilt Mum sewed together last week.

Then we got together and made this "Tractor" quilt from a kit I bought at the Newcastle Quilt Show.

My "hubby" said..right colour, wrong tractor".  He owns a McCormick tractor.

Wish they made fabric with this image on it!

Until next post...

Jewells

Feeding the Chickens

Another "Mum and Me" quilt.

This kit was a VERY simple quilt to make.  I bought the kit & gifted it to my sister, as she loves her chooks...she is actually known as "The Chook Lady" in her small town.

Well, she has moved her love of quilting to loving Scrap-booking & Card-making, so she asked me to sell all of her kits & patterns on eBay.

Well, seeing I gave this kit to her, I kept it to make up myself!... well Mum & I to make it up.

I quilted it with a leaf pattern..

My Quilt & Craft Sale is coming up (5th Dec), so Mum & I are busy making those last minite things to go into it.

Yes, this quilt will be in the sale.

Until next post...

Jewells

 

Another Quilt Finished

"Flip's Flower Garden"..just complete by Mum & Me..

 This kit was gifted to me by a friend in America. 

 She knows I am a sucker for cute things and bought this for me.

So, as usual, I cut, Mum sewed, and I ironed, quilted & bound it.

I thought it would be a fairly quick quilt to make... but I was wrong!... there were LOTS of sewing, cutting, matching & more sewing to this quilt.

The quilting stitch I used was a "Buzzing Bee" to compliment the bees around Flip and also on some of the border fabric (hard to see).

 

At the moment, Mum is busy with applique on her September installment of a block of the month and I am quilting customer's quilts, as well as making nighties for my sister, as she asked for me to make her some.

Until next post...

Jewells