Oh So Cute!

 I mentioned in my previous post how I have decided to do Lucy Boston's Crosses. I did organize and start - just a little too wincy I think. Cute as ... but!

 So now I have a stack of one inch templates on hand and I am on a trial run to see what I can do with self-made one and a half inch templates.
I have some lovely fabrics about and of course have added a few more in Liberty Life, I think it is. They are just beautiful and I am just so enthusiastic, so let's hope I have some pretties to show you next post. Well, maybe one pretty, I'll be happy if I can achieve that.
I was so thrilled to have so many lovely comments on my last post and I still hope to get back to you all personally. Life is so busy, it takes a lot caring for others, but I really do want to hold onto my quilting, blog and all that goes with it.
Happy Sunday arv to all girls in Oz and it will come to all of you soon!

Playing With Crosses!

 

 

... And Life Goes On!

It has all been so long since things have felt normal, whatever normal is. For a fleeting moment yesterday, I decided 'no more quilting' - now here I am back again with renewed vigour, let's hope it stays. I'm so happy there is still so much inspiration and motivation out there, thank you dear Friends!    



In all of this I have lost a pic, will try to get it back before I sign off. Recognize the above - Lucy Boston's Quilt of the Crosses, just divine. I have ordered the pattern from NSW so it should be here before the end of the week. My plan .... to try to use modern fabrics to achieve a beautiful gentle look. I still have lots of repros, but must admit I prefer the fresh look of modern fabrics these days. I would love to hear from those who are making the above quilt - sigh, just lovely!

 

With heavy heart I posted this pic of my little girl, Georgina, a couple of days ago - she has been with us thirteen years and the time came to go to Doggie Heaven - I miss her so much and feel blessed I had such a faithful, adoring little friend for all those years. I now over-indulge Alice, that's the way I am with my pets - nothing changes there!

I hope the bubbles that have been bursting will stop and look forward to keeping in touch regularly.

 

Opinions, Please!

My goodness - I too am finding great difficulty uploading photos these days - tricky and manipulation needed! I had such a lovely day out with Girlfriends yesterday, so motivation is high today!

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Here we have a pretty Dresden I made perhaps 9 years ago - it is basted, ready to be hand stitched and that's not going to happen - my life has had dramatic changes as the years have past, lots of them wonderful I will say.

This is a fairly large quilt - now should I spend the money and have it custom quilted allowing for a scalloped border, or should I have it simply quilted and spend less money. I will add that the quilt has lots of original Feedsack from the US and even though am these days into modern, I still can find a lot of beauty and am very attached to this quilt - I would welcome comments! 

Must tell you about my new Magic Bean Plant - can you see the beans at the base? - supposedly a native to Australia? More of that at a later date if I don't kill it with kindness, lol!

Happy day!

One Little Project!





Though the sewing room is so messy, it was just so lovely to be in 'my little corner of the world' - and I have made my little thread catcher, so I shouldn't be kicked out of Donna's Stitch-Along though one day late. The little design is from the book Red Home by Natalie Bird - practical and fun!

I must now check to see what to do for February.

 

Yesterday was a doozy! Mum and I went to the doctor for scripts and a checkover and to cut a long story short, as I was trying to get Mum into the car from the wheelchair she fell straight back and hit the back of her head on the bitumen. An ambulance was in the vicinity and after much screaming and yelling people came from everywhere to assist. Straight back to the doctor we went, big egg on the back of Mum's head, otherwise found to be undamaged after a thorough check. Mum was badly shaken - me, well there is nothing a beautiful, refreshing Mojito can't fix. Late to bed last night and I slept like a baby - how can I pretend it was all so easy? - life's challenges, I guess, lol!

 

Happy Day everyone!



Thailand to Perth!

 Oh, it is so lovely to be home in Oz! Thailand is a wonderful place to which I have a close affection, but Perth ... clear skies, clean air, little traffic and this is "Home"! I wish I could say I am rested, not so - all an adventure each time I visit.

So very little stitching done in the past three weeks and I really must do just a little today or Chookyblue will excommunicate me from her Stitch-Along!

 I have lots to talk about and maybe I will break it up into small segments in days to come. There was a few lovely parcels wating for me that the mailman had brought. Great excitement to receive my new book Softies Only a Mother Could Love. I love this little guy Hector Giraffe by our very own sweet Kate of Two Little Banshees - already I intend doing one for me and one for our precious wee one due 24 June - oh, I have itchy fingers!

Tomorrow is another day - lots to do today - 'til then, Happy Stitching!

Happy Holiday!

The countdown is on, still lots to do - I'm slipping in this little Post before I go.

Two delightful little books have arrived during the week - Red Home for Chookyblue's Stitchalong and GT&SB -the latest mentioned, I just love this quilt and started many years ago and now that there is so much popularity I've decided to have another go! The above pattern is an original of mine and the one below with the little dollies, well I figured I would find a spot for it in the quilt. I love whimsy, so there could be a few additions and subtractions.

Dear Mother Harriet - I will take her to a respite centre this afternoon - somehow I think it will work out okay. My goodness, I look at her all the time and don't often notice the sparkle in the beautiful blue eyes she has had all her life and that's for 94 years!

Pretty new fabric - I love it and don't know why?

From stitching to family - my beautiful daughter, Angela cutting beautiful grandaughter Ayesha's hair - how long is that? The most beautiful head of hair I have ever seen, wash and wear and yes, Angela is a hairdresser. God bless and stay safe, I'm off to Thailand on an early flight tomorrow!

Please Excuse!

There is just so much happening in life and this Post is sooo jumbled, but stay with me, please! I am deliberately using my new iPhone5 for pics (very bad ones, too) and U2 beautifully blasting Beauty Queen from David's room!

 

Hard to do, but let's skip this one for a wee moment!

 I have shown you before the start of 'my Tree Quilt' from this beautiful book. A little progress has happened, but I must tell you I just love this book!!! You will hear lot's more of it and our dear Kate from Two Little Banshees has a great pattern featured in it. Now Kate's a Western Australian girl, we are so proud of you Kate, hugs!

 Now I just have to think how to delete this copy, lol!

 And this one!

 My beautiful son Aaron and the love of his life, little Oy - they both sort of live in Thailand. We all love Oy like one of our own, she has been in our lives for perhaps 7 years, and now we have a little bub coming mid year. I am absolutely filled with joy and pray God all will go well with the pregnancy!
We are off to Thailand Friday next week for a couple of weeks and I'll bore you more about it all thereafter.

Bad, bad pic again - just a glimpse of fabrics from the latest Low Volume Swap I was in. The postie delivered yesterday and wow! the squares are just sooo great!

 One of my very favourites, and I've already ordered yardage! For now, happy day - I'm off to Perth Modern Quilt Guild tomorrow afternoon - I've newly joined and so far having fun! Will tell you more about it later! I'm out of here while the going is good!!!

Happy 2013!

To talk stitching - lots of WIP and this one is on the design board. I am just loving it - it is from the beautiful new quilt book Modern Quilts from the Blogging Universe and my first is from Blue Elephant Stitches. Time permitting, I will show you lots more of what's happening - wouldn't it be nice to post daily!

This pic was taken on my new iPhone5 - love it but so much to learn. I have bought a manual so maybe some of it can be stored in my poor wee brain! Oopsy - something happened! Two pics now and I am just going to carry on. Back to the pic - glorious hibiscus in DD, Danielle's garden and edited in soft focus. Lovely to be back again with lots of positive thoughts for 2013, stitching this afternoon!

No Name Yet!

So far, so good. This has been  an enjoyable quilt to organize and stitch - it is now being basted and then the long haul to quilt with Perle thread.  .......and, I'm not happy - my computer has been fiddled, then onto my printer. The photo editor can't do her job properly either, but I must take the blame for that!

 This pattern comes from the book 3-fabric quilts, nice inspiration there! The floral is Lilly Belle, the orangey/pink from Anna Marie Horner's Field Study range. I have ordered some Valdani Perle 8 to do the quilting, I'll let you know if I see any significant difference. I usually use Finca Presencia or DMC.

Most places in Australia are starting to warm up, poor Queensland suffering heat and fires. My heart goes out to you over there. Happy quilting to you all, I guess we are all so busy now with Christmas around the corner.