Giveaway Winner Announced & Geometric Quilt

A little something I've been working on...

A close up of some of the gorgeous fabrics in this project:

Quilter's cottons, cotton voiles and cotton-linen blends all mixed together in a quilt that I absolutely LOVE!

Isn't the design awesome?  This is the first time I have ever made a quilt from a pattern and I really enjoyed the process, and knowing that it was going to work out in the end.

If you like it, you can purchase a copy from Kate at One Flew Over.


And now, for the winner of the Giveaway...


It's No. 31


Congratulations Janet!


I will email you now to get your address and your package will be on it's way this week!

Giveaway - My 100th Post!

Welcome One and All!

I am hosting a giveaway to celebrate my 100th post.

Anyone can enter (no you don't have to "follow" my blog, but I'd love it if you liked it enough to!).

I don't mind where you live (international entries welcome).

This is what's on offer:

Hope Valley Blues (Fat Eighths)

These Japanese beauties I picked up at the Craft and Quilt show in Brisbane recently (fat quarters)

And finally, because you all know how much I love them, and I want to share the love:

Liberty Scraps.

Please make sure you leave your email address in your comment if it's not in your blog contact details so I can get in touch with you if you win.

The Giveaway will close at midday on Sunday 8th April (Brisbane time).

The winner will be announced some time on Sunday night!

Cheers!

Mary and Me at the Melbourne Zoo :-)

Mary's favourite colour is blue AND pink!

Mary told me recently that her favourite colour was blue AND pink.

I found that piece of information immediately sparked off a creative idea:  (another) quilt for Mary!

I wasn't inspired by the pink and blue colour combination, so I decided to make it predominantly pink, with a little bit of green (my favourite colour) and a little bit of yellow ("Nanny", my mother's favourite colour). It was lovely to make a scrap quilt entirely from fabric in my stash.

I have enjoyed trying out my new sewing machine with this easy piecing project - 4.5" squares, 15 x 15 (that's 225 squares in total), making the whole thing about 150cm square.

My Janome Quilters Edition, a very basic machine I've had for about 12 years, decided to pack it in after I tripped over the lead and brought it crashing to the ground.  I could have spent $200 on a new motor, but I only paid $600 for the machine, so I decided to give it to the sewing repairs man for parts in exchange for labour costs, and put my money towards a new Pfaff.

I love it!

When I recover from this bout of gastro (I'm home from work today as I've been up all night with vomiting and diarrhoea), I look forward to constructing the rest of this quilt top!

PS.  My next post will be my 100th.  I think a giveaway is definitely in order!

Giveaway winner

I used the random number generator on http://www.random.org/ to pick a number between 1 and 10 and it came up with 5 (you'll just have to take my word for it because I can't work out how to cut and paste it into this post, sorry), so the winner is Naomi from The Long and Short of It.

Congratulations Naomi!

I will email you to get your address and then pop your prizes in the post some time this week!

Giveaway!

Just a reminder about my birthday giveaway... I'm giving away a copy of Enduring Grace, and some other little goodies on Monday.

To be in the running, simply make a comment in the post below.  No need to follow my blog, unless you want to of course!

Have a good weekend. xx

Birthday Giveaway!

It was my birthday the other day, and I received some very beautiful gifts!  I'd like to share some of them with you.

From my husband, the Wedgwood "Queen of Hearts" teapot, cup and saucer.  No more tea bags in old coffee mugs for me!

And from my parents, who just returned from America yesterday....

A couple of fabulous books:

A calender

And many other little goodies, including quilt patterns and quilt postcards.  Mum bought these gorgeous things at none other than The Shelburne Museum!!!!!  I don't think she quite gets how cool that is!

Anyway, she bought me another book, which I already have:

Hence the giveaway!

Please leave a comment if you would like to be included in the draw.

You don't have to be a follower of this blog to enter the competition.

Please note your email address in the comments form if I don't have access to it.

Anyone can enter; anyone can win!

I will draw the winning number on Monday 11th October 9am EST.

And now, for those of you who are interested, here is an update on my "hello birdie" project:

As you can see, all the yellow stitching is done.

I have done some free-form stippling (for the first time ever) in the green "feather":

I found the stippling quite challenging!

I'm really enjoying this project, even though it's going to be a pretty odd little item when all is said and done.  Maybe Mary (our daughter) could use it as a sookie rag to suck on, or a placemat when she starts eating at the table.