Ahhh .... the hills of home ...
heading towards our beautiful valley and the ground is green now that the heat of summer is past, it is mid winter here now though little rain, it has however been just enough to change the landscape from brown to green so took some photos as we were driving along, huge amounts of new vinyard plantings too, it is the first time I have seen these.

Needed to have a storage bag for my large square rulers as they are clear - predating the fluro type - every time I put the rulers down I "lose" them so decided to use some lefyovers from the orange crush to make a storage bag, son decided it needed a handle and suggested using a tie, so off to the thrift shop I went and then attached the tie to each side so now *Voila* the bag can hang up - and I can find the rulers!!

BTW I used a towel which had become thin for the batting.

Orange Crush

Here is my top before borders.


Am having to be a little creative with the borders coz I am using a border print - and I am short by about 3" so having to mitre the corners that fit, then trim the fabric to piece onto the short borders aagh!!!


Hopefully they will be finished this weekend.


Was going to make a pieced back but have enough of the berry print that I used as the accent ... gotta love stashbusting!


Need to decide how to quilt this and then do it!


The close up is just in case you wanted to see some of the variety of prints I used , it is what I call Heinz 57 varieties or as Bonnie says "kitchen sink"

100th post!

100th post - had no idea but that is what the dashboard is telling me.
So guess that means I get to play at giving away *stuff* - but what???
I have almost no idea ..............
so..............
if you want to be in the draw, when you leave your comment add in what you would like - before we start - quilts are out! any that I have on the go are already either promised or ear marked!

Some suggestions might be for charms, I spy's or colours.
crumb pieced rotary cutter case
pin cushion
pot holder
shopping bag
so over to you clever ones ...

Now on to the reason that I came to the blog - Tip nut had a post today about a blog that is about living a simpler life, so it is more about gardening, growing vegetables etc and I thought some others might be interested in the blog too
http://down---to---earth.blogspot.com/2008/02/not-step-by-step-guide-to-simple-living.html

Just a quick note about the orange crush - the intended recipient does like the quilt top so will make some more blocks to bring it up to the size.
Bought a coordinating border fabric when I bought the yardage of orange so will use that for the border in place of Bonnie's pieced border.
bye for now,
100 - maybe that is why I feel old ....

Orange Crush setting

Having seen Julia in Perth's straight setting I decided to rearrange some blocks to that setting , took a photo in the poor lighting we have at night and will decide tomorrow which way to finally set the blocks together.

Am thinking I like the lattice effect of the diagonal lines rather than the straight.

These blocks are just roughly pinned, wanted to do it while the setting was fresh in my mind.

If by chance you happen to see this before I finally decide on the setting please leave me a comment.

Just as an aside this is how I cope without a design wall, have the foam panels from packaging around a fridge and simply lean them against something - in this instance it is a cupboard and the back door.

my today

Started to pin the blocks up for the orange crush and in walked the person that this quilt is intended for
"Wow"!! was the reaction, so I decided to snap the photo to see if I could get the same reaction - unfortunately, no.
Orange is not *my* colour, happily though it looks like the intended recipient will be delighted when they get it as a surprise.

What I received as a surprise though was this postcard from Viki!!!

Made from selvedges so now I have no excuse for not using my selvedges ;))

Thank you Viki your RAK really brightened my day.

orange crush

Bonnie has now solved the mystery!!!

I finished part 4 last night so will work my way though part 5 then I can set this quilt together - lots of split patches to make for the border but can do them as leaders and enders.
Then start my 2nd quilt using this design ;-))

With the finish of the design comes the graphic - looks good doesn't it?

orange crush

My ordered fabrics arrived!!

I also had ordered this foundation paper pieced pattern, there was just the one pattern left in stock - so now I feel like I have won the lottery!!!

Intend to use my leftovers from the two crush quilts to make the FPP quilt

Orange Crush

These are my very scrappy 4 patches for the mystery.

Two options for any more 4 patches - 1 is the Cathedral Stars another one of Bonnie Hunters designs, and the 2nd is for another 150 in case I get the blue fabric which is in a previous post - the package from the internet shop has not arrived yet .. patience, patience ... LOL

Orange Crush

These are my fabrics that arrived, on this monitor

the fabric on the right appears to be green, it is actually black.

Wondered though about the purple as the accent so decided to try another fabric that I already had - it has small berries in the print so could become a berry crush???

Any way I will be interested to have others opinions before I finally decide.

Have at least two weeks before we need to use these fabrics.

The striped fabric is for borders, I was aiming at having the borders tie in the other colours.

My 4 patches are done though, and they are way scrappy - all sorts of odds and ends in that lot!

Haven't taken a pic of them yet and tomorrow I'm off on a bus trip from 8am till 9 pm.

Orange Crush

My fabrics for Orange Crush have arrived!!
My photos are not uploading tonight though so will try again tomorow.

The 4 patches are made.

Plenty of waiting projects to keep me occupied for two weeks till the next clue.

Orange Crush fabrics

These are the fabrics I ordered for my Orange Crush mystery

quilt, have had notification that they were posted on Friday.

The stripes are for the border.

There is just too much eye candy on the web! - now I have seen a fabric that I like which I feel would be great for a blueberry crush ... sigh

What's a girl to do???