Double delight fabrics

my fabrics arrived in good time, I ordered them from Kim at:





http://www.aaaquilterssupply.com/



I am looking forward to using them in Bonnie Hunter's double delight, it was a mystery but I have peeked and really like it.
No idea when it will be finished, but I intend to enjoy the journey.

Bonnie's new design - Double delight

this fabric is what I have chosen to work with - will use it as the border and because of that decided to change the indigos to greens in the quilt top.

Hopefully this fabric will work as the chocolate brown in this mystery.

This is the fabric I chose to use for the gold/cheddar

All others in this mystery will be from my scraps

Was fortunate to be gifted with the entire discontinued fabric samples from a curtain shop.
Trimmed and sewed the sheers to make covers for the food - we like to eat outdoors whenever we can.
So these should keep the flying bugs off our food.

Also some cord fabric samples, not as heavy as corduroy but still too bulky to make criss cross coasters - I learnt that from making this one !

The pin cushion is from cotton fabric.

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?

Stephanie's charity qui;ts

Stephanie does a lot of charity quilts - she is a very generous person.

These versions of rail fences have been made using donated fabrics.

One was being made while I was there so that I could see how it was done.

TWIO - third weekend in October quilt project

Here is the start of my project - patterns, needlepunched foundation papers, coloured copies of the pattern to indicate where the different colours go, flannel backed tablecloth for storing the quilt in progress - no room for a design wall, desirable though that might be ;-))

Started to sort my fabrics into piles of 'families' , however I only want to make one leaf from each fabric, don't want to over think this so will just pull one fabric at a time, the blue tote on the left is full of fabrics suitable for this quilt mostly in small pieces, no fear of me running out of suitable fabrics for this project!!

My constants are the background fabrics which will be the same throughout the quilt.

Have a downloaded pattern for the leftovers from the quilt, so out of a bag full of scrap fanrics I will end up with two quilts - and maybe a wallhanging, feels good to be stashbusting, and it will be a nice contrast to the Orange Crush project.

Just need to wash the quilt for Noah today and give it to his father tomorrow, seems to have taken a long time to finish but at least it is there now, and Noah is just 4 months old - think he will care whether it took me a week or 4 months to make??

Will post a picture of the finished quilt tomorrow.

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

raffle quilt

This quilt was raffled last year in order to raise funds for the Leukemia foundation through my shave for a cure.

Like the raffle quilt below, this quilt was expertly, beautifully quilted by Lisa and Roy of the Blackbird Quiltery, the links to Lisa'a blog and the quiltery are on my sidebar.

Many of the nine patches on this quilt came from participating in swaps.

This quilt was won by Margaret P. who was my roomie in Bendigo last year.

quilt for raffle

This is the only photo I can find now of the quilt for the Mothers' Day raffle - and I think it is actually on it's side ... I dyed some fabric in green for the binding.

While I was down the street today called into the senior citizens op shop and found 3 more cotton shirts so the bargello will be underway very soon.

Do I want to count and list the UFO's, WIP's and whatever else???? ... nah ... I'll just continue to work on projects as the opportunity, and the mood, arises.