A MISSED POST

I seemed to have missed posting about this block. Must have been a bad time for me... Hopefully I have caught up now...

And one for you Julianne in USA

Here is my block for Julianne. I initially wasn't looking forward to doing this block but I got into it and it worked. I think it is my best yet. It lays flat and the seams meet.

A FUND RAISING DONATION FOR COMPLETE KIDS CHILD CARE

I made this quilt in a Carol Lewis class over in Gisborne a few years back. When Quilters Bazaar was there. It was a round robin quilt.. But the twist was that it was your own quilt.
We had to make a certain size centre for our first gathering.
Next month was a triangle border followed by an applique border. Next was a curved border. The size  and design of borders was up to you. I did get it finished and it has been sitting around for the right moment. I gave it to my daughter for her business to donate it to the childcare to be Auctioned for a fundraiser. I still have to find out how much was raised.
If you need some roofing, guttering or spouting jobs done check them out.

https://www.facebook.com/tkcmetalroofing

I love the curved  borders. It's not really curved. They are folded squares then the fold is stitched down to make it look like a curve..

FATHERS DAY 2014

I had a great day on this Fathers Day. We celebrated with the son and daughter out for dinner last night at Mount Macedon hotel. We had a great time. A very noisy night.. But fun. Hahaha.

So today hubby was a bit tired. We did do a bit of shopping then home for lunch. My time to disappear into my work room and leave hubby to relax & have his own time.

So I focussed on finishing off the last of the boys 21st puzzle quilts.

Then I have joined in doing an AUSSIE HERO QUILT. 

Read about it here...http://aussieheroquilts.blogspot.com.au/p/a-brief-history.html

My guy liked TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLE so this is what I did.

He also has a laundry bay to go with it.

I am linky up with Val on her Tuesday archives. This is not a funny quilt really but I think it funny some of the requests from the AUSSIE HEROS on deployment. I hope this quilt puts smiles on a lot of peoples faces. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.

Vals Quilting Studio

http://myplvl.blogspot.com.au/2014/09/tuesday-archives-27-fmq-funnest-quilt.html

Then I continued on with my block swaps for this month.

Sue is enjoying a trip away so we got our partners for this month a little early and at the same time.

This is where it all began...

http://quiltingblockswapsaustralia.blogspot.com.au

I like this idea because I spend one afternoon focussing just on them.

They are now done.

My 12" block for Traci. Traci wanted Dorothy's star done with a white background and any other
colour of choice. Mine was a nice chocolate brown.
http://www.quilterscache.com/D/DorothysStarBlock.html

Next for the day was my Paper Pieced swap for Anna. When this swap started we were partners for the first month. I am still getting the same block " Hunters Star. " but Anna has changed and now is wanting a 12" Atlantic Seas block.. http://www.quilterscache.com/images52/atlanticseastemp.gif

I think I still need a lot of work on paper piecing. My points are not matching. I hope Anna likes this block. It took me ages to do. These are shades of black and grey with a background of white.

Last thing on the list for the day was the 6" swap. Carolyn wanted any two 6" blocks done with 1930s fabrics. I'm not really sure if these are the right fabrics. I think they are. I do like these fabrics and blocks. I made a baby cot quilt with these pretty fabrics.A traditional Rail Fence and Spool block.

These are a very sweet pink so I hope that Carolyn likes them.

Machine Appliqué and quilting with Neil Chisholm

I had a great Saturday workshop at Kilmore Quilters with Neil Chisholm.

http://www.neilchisholmdesigns.com

It was Neil's birthday during the week so we sang Happy Birthday and ate cake.....

Neil spent a lot of time with us explaining about threads and tension to get us started with some appliqué on some hearts. We tried blanket stitch or satin st. I wanted to make my satin stitch better so I stuck with that. We were all given a pattern to do, shown how to use the scan and cut, given some tips as we went.
A WALK IN THE PARK. (The pattern and finished project)

Here was the start of mine before starting to stitch. I decided to use Xmas fabrics to be different.

We were to try one flower before going on with the whole layout. There just isn't enough time in a day to do all the stitching, attach borders and quilt. So here is Neil giving us a quilting lesson.

Now for the whole design ironed on to the background ready to be stitched.

(Photo to come)

We had such a fun day. With lots of laughs all day. Can't repeat some of the topics but they were good. Made some people blush too.... Hahahahaha.

So go and have a look at Neil's work and the classes he teaches and workshops he holds.

http://www.neilchisholmdesigns.com

Thankyou Neil

Play day

I have had a good day playing with a block I had to do. 

It is a Halloween swap, mug rug swap, gift swap and another present. I have doubled up because the dates have allowed it. It all fits in which is good....

I don't do Halloween but I have had fun with these...

What do you all think?

Good enough for a gift?????

I also finished sewing up my youngest grandsons jumper.

Then I did a little sewing down binding finishing off some mug rugs. 

These little beauties are for a friend organising "PINK STUMPS DAY". A fundraiser day for breast cancer held at her cricket club next year... So far we have made about 170.

And to finish off the night watching tv I have finished a cute cotton dishcloth for a friend.

I am linking up FNWF and stitching away.

Go and have a look at what everyone is doing  here with CHERYLL

AUGUST HONOUR BLOCKS

YES I HAVE DONE THEM. 5 this month.

We are getting 5 a month now so that we can get them finished by Christmas and the quilts completed for the ANZAC display in Kilmore in April.

So I need to keep up.

1B...  JAMES JOSEPH FREYNE

2G...  FRANK CHALMERS

4B...   JOSEPH CROWLEY

5D...  FRANCIS PATRICK ANDERSON

7D....   GEORGE WEIR

Have a look at the page HONOUR QUILT 2014 by clicking on the tab at the top of this page. It tells you about the people that Maree has chosen to do a block for that were in the war.

Where my winnings came from

I follow the blog by Mari over at THE ACADEMIC QUILTER

On one of Mari's posts she was giving away her scrap half square triangles left over from another project.  Her giveaway was HERE
http://academicquilter.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/surprise-finish.html

Well, I was not the winner but she sent me some anyway.

PHOTO OF SCRAPS

Mari said there is 384 of them. Oh boy....what will I do?

LINK TO HER POST OF TRIANGLES
http://academicquilter.blogspot.com.au/2014/06/hst-overload.html

It is such pretty fabric I had to go looking to see what she had made with it.

Look at http://academicquilter.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/vin-du-jour.html to see her post.
It is a beautiful quilt.

Now I have to decide what to do with them. I'm going searching on Pinterest now.

Well, this is a start. Not sure I am happy with these layouts. I still have to find some fabric yo go with it. I will still think about it. I am not sure how many blocks there are but I am grateful with what I have.

Thankyou Mari.....

Linking up with WIP WEDNESDAY.

Another quilt binding done

I have had this quilt top sitting around for ages. A good friend of mine made me some tops and I quilted some of her quilts in return. I thought that it is about time to finish some off so I got it quilted and have just finished the binding. One for the cupboard as a spare gift.

Thanks Sue.

It is a great style and print for a guy.

My daughters family

My daughter had her family photos taken as a school fundraiser.

They are so beautiful and happy.

Aren't they gorgeous....

I am so happy I have worked out how to put many photos  into one post. Oh boy am I going to have fun now...

I WAS A WINNER @ FNSI

On the 3rd Friday of the month Wendy over at SUGARLANE Quilts

Has a Sew In night link up. I was the lucky one drawn to win a prize last month.

My prize has arrived. Go over here to read all about it

http://sugarlanequilts.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/a-fnsi-winner.html

Thank you Wendy.

I can't wait to start using it.......