Happy mail and some baby sewing

 A while ago I commented on Mari’s blog that I loved the backing fabric she had used.

https://academicquilter.blogspot.com/2021/06/purple-morning.html

How lucky am I Mari sent me her leftovers…and a few other fabrics.

Aren’t those birds just so cute. More fabric for my stash. I knew of a design I wanted to make straight away.

First up I found some pale yellow to go with the birds.

Cut up the birds into as many squares as I could get in a workable size. 6 1/2” square. Cut some strips of the yellow to border them making a 10 1/2” square.

Then I searched for some other fabrics to match the blues and yellows. I cut them in to strips for the alternating blocks.

Put them all on the wall and cut the strips to fit the spaces. Layout no. 1

Layout no. 2 

One day I will get back to piecing it all together.

Thank you so much Mari for your kindness.

Postcards & Mug rug swaps.

 I have enjoyed being in the QATW swaps.It is fun and exciting to receive special surprises in the mail.

I received a lovely fabric postcard from Tracey.. Cosmcat…

This is the one I am sending off to my partner. It is for October.. Spring time..

I am also making an Autumn mug rug for a swap too. I went with the lovely colours of Autumn.

I made a maple leaf block into a mug rug. But also made the backing in a light coloured fabric so I could write on it as a postcard.

SPF & AHQ Laundry bags workshop and donation

 Back in July my local quilt group SPF had a workshop day making AHQ laundry bags. We used my Mums souvenir tea towels for the fronts. 

I have a message of where they were sent to cheer some troops up.

**** We've sent the bags off to Chaplain Bruce Hammond who is overseeing eastern states training for OP COVID ASSIST troops  to hand out.....he has been messaging frequently to say thanks to all involved in this generous support of those deployed on this task.

So thank you to all the helpers that contributed to these being made.

With warmest good wishes and appreciative thanks, AHQ*******

Here is the link for the instructions and tutorial for how to make them.

http://aussieheroquilts.blogspot.com/p/laundry-bag-specifics.html

Lots of photos to follow. But some cute tea towels to look at…

Thanks to everyone that helped 

FNWF & ZOOM update . Everyone was shocked.

FNWF with Cheryll @ https://stitchingcubbyhole.blogspot.com/2021/09/at-fnwf.html

I have been trying to workout what to do with a panel I bought from Lesley Mays quilt shop.

I am in a swap and have to add pieced or appliqués borders. It cannot just be a straight cut border.

Drawing out the design…

So choosing the fabrics…

But these didn’t work so something different has happened

Getting ready to cut the fabrics but the rotary blade needed a sharpen before I started

Cutting the fabrics…

Nope. These were wrong. Start again

Making a mess…

Oh no, I’ve cut off the Galahs head

And the Koalas ear…

Now ready for hand stitching with Chooky on zoom.

SATURDAY

 Well, did I shock everyone. I joined in zoom at just after 6 am. I’m not an early riser but I just had to do it. 

I continued with my panel project I was working on @FNWF and hand stitched down the kangaroo tail.

I am working on the last border today so you will see all about it soon. This is a surprise swap so I don’t want to spoil it if the recipient reads here.

Time for knitting teddy bear vest for charity. Jan Mac donates these to foster care kids or abused children. Everyone deserves someone to love.

https://sewmanyquiltstoolittletime.blogspot.com/

You can find the pattern here..

https://sewmanyquiltstoolittletime.blogspot.com/2021/06/instructions-for-knitted-teddy-bear-vest.html

I then went on to show a little bit of my scrap knitting blanket squares. With this blanket you don’t need to sew the squares together.

Here is the start of it

I got the idea from this picture on Pinterest 

You can find the basic pattern here.

http://thecuriouskrafter.blogspot.com/2013/04/domino-baby-blanket.html

I had some lunch then headed back to bed for 3 hours. It was such a fun morning so thank you Chooky and everyone else that chatted away. Good to see you all, hear your stories and see what you have been working on.

Until next time…….

https://chookyblue.blogspot.com/2021/09/refueling-soul.html

FNWF & a CHOOKY ZOOM

 I’ll be joining Cheryll and friends tonight for some stitching

https://stitchingcubbyhole.blogspot.com/2021/09/its-september.html

And Chooky in the morning for Zoom.

I might still be in my pj’s but they are all used to that. It is an early start to the day.

https://chookyblue.blogspot.com/2021/09/zoom-quicky.html

Now to go look for what I want to work on.