no photos today

The blogger upload has been out of action/not responding both yesterday and today so will have to try again tomorrow.
Did get some more blocks made for my Carolina Crossroads quilt - it's a mystery quilt happening on Bonnie Hunters quiltville blog, over a thousand quilters doing the same quilt in different colours all over the world - quite an amazing experience!
My version is using scraps of blues and lights with solid black as the accent however am already planning the colours for my next version ....
No wonder I get into a mess - I start far too many projects!

mariners compass

My husband had always wanted a mariners compass quilt esp as he was in the Royal Navy.
I never did manage to make him one but found this top for sale on the net.
Needs to be quilted and then it will be done.
It has been on the back of the recliner that he sits in so he has been able to enjoy it.

A W.I.P.

hmmmm.. my plans for posting *something* each day have gone awry.

My camera has dead batteries as well so this is a pic of a giraffe applique I'm stitching down to make a cushion for a giraffe loving grand daughter. The background fabric is one of my hand dyes.

We are at our own little cottage just now, just hubby and me, every thing is very dry, another extremely hot day today so will have to make sure we keep the water intake up, promise of a cooler day tomorrow so if we get through today we will be fine - going back to Trevors tomorrow.

A high bushfire risk today and I didn't manage to get all the dry grass cut down so will hope there are no arsonists around about.

My friend Lisa has found this blog and as she had reminded me of a lilac quilt I'm making for a niece I'll dig it out of it's bag today and see how much more needs to be done, take it back to Trevor's with us and work on finishing it there so it can go to Lisa and Roy's Blackbird Quiltery they have a wonderful flair of adding special quilting on my tops.

Together they transform the humdrum to the stunning.

my scrap organisation

Nothing like the size of Bonnie's scrap bins on quiltville, but this is the system that works for me!
A stack of ice cream containers holds squares cut in 1/2" increments from 1 1/2" - 6"
The tins and strong boxes have prevented fading from the strong sunlight that comes in here.

my first ever postcard

made my first ever postcard today - guess I have a long way to go, but at last I have started - prcrastination taken to the nnnth degree

in the garden

Apart from the more common pink hollyhocks we have this single plant which produces flowers of almost black colouring.

Sudoko quilt

This is the fabric I have chosen for the new years eve sudoko quilt project on Stashbusters.

They are from a pack of charms from Vonne in a swap earlier this year.

Have cut them into 1 1/2" squares to make a mini quilt, or maybe a cushion.

Sweltering in a heat wave here so this project will help keep my mind off the weather.

my favourite moment from Christmas

Promise this is the last photo from Christmas ;o)

Grandpa comes from a generation who were not given to shows in public of affection.

Here he is giving his grand daughter a hug - she had gifted him with a model of a Chinese warrior and Grandpa had taken her to see the exhibition when she was just a young child - lots of evocative memories there!

bblocks for Noah's quilt

Laid out some of the blocks today for Noah's baby quilt - wondering now whether to do some blocks in yellows with the dolphin print to mix in with the blues ... any suggestions?

sparkling

Sarah was fascinated by having two sparklers alight at the same time - and with them burning at both ends too!

current projects

This blog is both a self indulgence and a place to track what gets achieved so to that end here goes with my list of what I am up to at the moment.

Along with over a thousand other quilters from all over the world am working on Bonnie's mystery, havent started step 4 yet.

Making some small quilt pins for Australia Day - Jan 26th

Assembling a Dorothy Young mystery in a dolphin print and hand dyed blues to gift a new born baby boy - needs to be completed next week

sewing machine cover

This is the most amazing sewing machine cover- made by my Perth room mate Sue.

It is absolutely stunning!!!

Not only is my name embroidered in letters large enough for me to see - it has embroideries on every side - and the top!

I am truly blessed.

This is the layout of the back.

This print on the back represents their two daughters

this is the label

This is the front of Twenty Annies

Tomorrow is DD and DSIL's wedding anniversary, when they were to celebrate their 20th anniversary I made them a quilt and called it "Twenty Annies"

This photo was taken when they realised it was THEIR quilt they had opened.

The front of the quilt is done in the 'colours' John prefers - black/grey/cream and white.

The back is pieced with vignettes of their lives.

wallhanging photo

The photo shows my daughter checking out all the wonderful textures in the wallhanging

starting over

had actually forgotten that I had started this blog ... and another, can't find how to delete old/unused blogs so will continue to post on this one.
My intention was to have a blog which deals with the journey of a heart quilt, however my eyesight is almost non existent at the moment till surgery in the new year so all work on the heart quilt has stopped for now, somehow I still hope to have it finished for Perth in May 2008.

I am so very blessed - a wallhanging arrived in the past week from Gypsy as part of a swap - my contribution is 'on hold'.
The package was unwrapped yesterday as part of our Christmas day thinmgs to do, it is reverse applique on black - stunning - so many different textures!!
Now to try to rediscover how to add photos..