Charisma Finished!

Whoohoo! My project for January finished! This has been a delightful quilt to make and my first attempt on a big project hand-quilting in larger stitches with Perle thread and a big needle!

I originally bought the fabric from Kerry's and Julie's online shop Provincial Patch - they are delightful girls! I wanted to have a go at doing a Disappearing Nine-Patch - a great design made with squares into a 9-patch and then split up the middle both ways. I placed my blocks randomly and am happy with the outcome!

Western Australian Quilters have asked me to make a third prize for their Art Union Raffle for their QuiltWest Exhibition in May, so I am happy to be able to donate this quilt. Proceeds will go to The Royal Flying Doctor Service and though I haven't checked most probably some donation to Breast Cancer Research. With Australia being such a vast country with so many remote towns, where would we be without our RFDS - almost daily we hear about the life-saving service they provide to our folk. And breast cancer, need we emphasize further about that - at the moment it is cricket season here and great honour is being given to young mother,Jane McGrath who lost her battle with breast cancer last year - her husband, Glen, former Australian Test cricketer and the players and spectators are supporting a foundation in Jane's honour and all wearing pink - looks good! Let's hope we can all do our little bit to help both these worthy causes!

Here's a close-up of the quilting! The quilt took me a couple of months to make and DD, Angela, is really peeved that I am giving it away - however, I have been lucky enough to stumble across a bundle of fat-quarters on sale at the The Fat Quarter Shop in the US, and I will definitely make another - would not disappoint my little girl! I am hoping the fabric will arrive this week.

I'm off now to prepare for a 'dilly-bag making workshop' with Pat tomorrow - hopefully, I will have one of my creations to show you soon!

♥ ... Hugs ... ♥