Lily's quilt

top finished

Today I put Lily's quilt top together, there going to be another row of sashing top and bottom and down the sides. These blocks were made as part of the AQC bee #2 in April

quilt club australia bee#2

February for Waverlee

March for Jane

April me

May for Phillipa

 

Tracey for June

On Facebook there is an all Australian quilting group - Quilt Club Australia (QCA), I joined the second bee that started in February. Each month the allocated Queen Bee tells us what she wants made and we use our own stash to make the blocks for her. I was queen bee for April and wanted everyone to make a star flower block. I had made one of these last year for the bee in oz bee for Anorina and loved the simplicity of the design. The only requirement was the background fabric was to be all the same - organic cotton in natural from Spotlight. I asked everyone to buy a fat quarter or I could send them one and each fatquarter produced enough 5" squares to make 2 blocks. Lily has worked out the layout for her quilt and tomorrow I plan to finish putting it together so when I have time next week I can quilt it for her. Violet and Charlotte are also getting one as well, just need the time to put them together.

two months and a lot has happened

This post is going to work from now backwards, its easier that way.

Kate and Lily

Kate, Charlotte, Lily, Violet, Nana Karen and John

Where to start, how about with miss Lily turned 4 on Saturday, she is growing up so quickly and a lovely big sister most of the time. She had an afternoon tea party with her preschool friends and then the extended family went to Rashay's in Narellan for for dinner. Violet is now 13 months old and cousin Charlotte is 8months old they all have fun together

Block for Dawnelle 

Block for Tracey 

Today I spent the day sewing it has rained and been cold and miserable all day, not the best public holiday weather but great for sewing. I made Tracey's paper pieced border star block  for quilt club Australia bee #2 and a rainbow star block for Dawnelle as part of block swap adventure2.
This week is the Sydney Quilt and Craft show at Darling Harbour and I have a casual job working for Studio Mio and you will find them at B32.
Tomorrow I will have a blood test to see if the medication the doctor has me on is working, a month ago I went to see my doctor as I had been unwell, well actually I ended up in hospital with a bladder infection.The previous blood test had shown that my thyroid was under active and had been  for a while so onto medication I went. It seems to be working but I'll wait and see.

birthday girl in her rainbow dress

On 20th April miss Violet turned 1, Granddad Steve did her dedication service at Camden Baptist and then we all had lunch at Kate and Graeme's house. Elizabeth and Jared came up from Melbourne for the weekend and we finally got some nice family photos

Granddad with Violet

Steve, Graeme, Lily, Kate and Violet

Elizabeth and Jared

the whole gang

we forgot Jared

Not much sewing going on here but

Simplicity bias tape maker

other goodies bought at Rosehill

stripy fabric to make bias 30% off

bib and backing fabric

block party and grey prima 30%off

organic fat quarters 30% off

I did go to the craft fair at Rosehill Racecourse last Friday with Kate and Jaclyn and came home with the lovely tape maker. I was going to buy 3 clover tape makers $60 instead I bought the Simplicity bias tape maker from Punch with Judy with 7 different sized tape makers, a box to keep them in and and extra rollers for $169. I also picked up the new issue of Homespun from here and Stitch from here. I also bought Eiffel Tower scissors from scissorman
Then Monday and Tuesday Spotlight had 30% off everything, the stripy fabric was $4 a metre minus 30% equals $2.80 a metre. Flannelette to back some fabric bought at IKEA to make more of these for Violet.
Block party and plain  light grey prima from something in the future and organic fat flats - white, natural, lime green, yellow, light blue and hot pink.

Name Game Swap

my quilt from Marg

My mini quilt from Marg arrived the other day, isn't it beautiful. 

Life has interrupted my getting much sewing done at the moment, even my geese for a swap are only half done, I'm going to take an easy morning, watch a movie and try some sewing this afternoon.

WMQG

Anorina and me

Last Saturday I went to the first meeting of the Wollongong Modern Quilt Guild at Corrimal, it is quicker for me to drive to the coast than across the city to go to SMQG meeting. I met in person Anorina of sameliasmum who lives down that way, we were both part of the Flickr bee - Bee in Oz last year. See the stitching on the table you can see it finished on her blog and she has a cover girl quilt on the current issue of Homespun. Anorina is also the person behind the name game swap from the previous post and an all round crafty person.

more swaps

Blocks from Natasha

the stitching around the name

 

a corner of the quilt

My blocks (she made me 2 as she was late) from Natasha for January block swap adventure 2 arrived today in the mail. They are more orange than yellow, she must know I like wonky stars, aren't they great.

My mini quilt is on its way overseas I did flying geese in a ring adding the name of my partner to the top. The geese are a from charm pack of Kaffe Fasset and I hand quilted following the seam line with purple cotton perle. When my partner says she has received it I will show you the whole finished quilt,