Quilts of Love

This week has seen me complete 2 small quilts for the Quilt of Love project.  These quilts are either 50cm x 50cm or 1m x 1m in size and are used in the special care nurseries of hospitals.

This Butterfly Quilt of Love (50 x 50cm) was made from my Injune Creek Patchwork Christmas exchange where instead of exchanging gifts we exchanged embroidery panels and fat 1/4s of fabric to use for this purpose.

 This "Sheriff" Quilt of love (50 x 50cm) I made from a cute teddy cowboy material that I embellished with a "Sheriff Star".

Both of these quilts have been given into the custody of Julie from Cow Paddocks Patchwork to be passed on to the special care wards of the major hospitals in Toowoomba & Brisbane.

I am very excited, these 2 quilts mean another 2 OPAM for February.  Sometimes we just get on a roll.

I am so lucky

When I ventured to the mail box this week I found a very exciting parcel waiting for me.  It contained this beautiful card & wonderfully wrapped goodies from Vikki of Sew Useful Designs.

 

Inside were the wonderful goodies I won in the Flood relief raffle & Auction that I posted about here .

The travel sewing caddy complete with scissors & thread fits on the sun visor of the car so I can sew while driving (well being the passenger actually).  I will have to get P to photograph me stitching in the car. The wonderful patterns are the Springtime Block of the month that I won in the auction.  I can't wait to trace off the beautiful stitcheries and start stitching.

 

Many thanks again Vikki for your generous prizes.  

I LOVE THEM.

New life to discarded clothing

While cleaning my sewing space the other day (that is another post all together) I came across a RM Williams shirt I had inherited for my oldest boy.  It had been used by an embroiderer who had stuffed up the design & unpicked the design leaving a series of holes.  As it was a really good quality shirt, I couldn't let it go in the scrap bag so I dug around & found a picture to spunk it up for T.  

Here is McQueen in all his raw edge & free form stitching glory.

 And a really excited T as he models his newest shirt.  I have regained super Mummy status.

This remodel qualifies as my first OPAM for 2011.  Yeah,  I am on my way.

Pondering... Contemplating... Procrastinating???

Last year as you may recall, I participated in a twisted bargello workshop.  Well the bargello really hasn't progressed from where it was when I last posted but however I have had an ephiphany.

The panel that I have completed fits between the two windows at the front of our house, so it is currently hanging out in it's unfinished form while I contemplate what I should do now.  Do I just border & quilt it, or do I continue to make more bargello (approx this 3 times again) to form a quilt.

When hanging this way I see water flowing down...

 and this way I see upward movement...

what do you see??? Any thoughts on the future of this piece??

Christmas in February????

The lovely ladies of Roma Patchwork & Crafters Inc held our Christmas party in February this year as we were washed out in December.  Strange but true.  We followed the plan that we had for Christmas, but decided not to dress in Christmas.

On the agenda was Show & tell (of course).  Below are the ladies showing off some of their "2 fat quarter" projects.

Christmas scrap tub & 2 fat quarter cream bag.

 Japanese fabric "2 fat quarter" tote

 "2 fat quarters" and a few bits more quilt.  Those block centres are a multi coloured upholstery fabric

 2 fat quarter pyramid/volcano scrap tote

"2 fat quarter" wave handbag.

We had a lovely day & everyone is now inspired for the year ahead.  Keep up the good work ladies.