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.

Girly Quilt!

 All finished - for whom? One day a little girl will come along and this quilt will keep her warm and happy. And it has been so lovely to play with while making it!

 All little scraps that somehow just work and I have hand-quilted it using Presencia Finca Perle 8 thread. My fingers are itching to get on the go again, another big-stitch quilted project is a must. Whoohoo! A little light bulb has just gone on - now it wouldn't take much to whip up a little mug-rug with Christmas just around the corner.

I have been so slack with posting lately, though I must admit I still do lots of blog-reading - lots of beautiful projects happening out there.

Duh! Now my signature has gone again, not my fault, naughty Blogger! Have a wonderful weekend!
Hugs - Lurline♥

Spring Has Sprung!

Shock, horror - yes, it's me! Lovely to be back after my unplanned blog break - absolutely no reason, it just happened!

 Yes, it is so lovely to have some warmer weather - talking about weather, I pray for the safety of dear friends on the east coast of USA, lets hope that nasty storm somehow goes out to sea. Don't you just love these gorgeous Seduction roses that belong to a dear friend here - Carole, your garden is just delightful!

These pics are back to front, never mind - I've started a new project by Sarah Feilke from her book From Little Things ....!   Mary, from Molly Flanders inspired me with her fabric choice, do pop over and have a look, beautiful! I think mine will be slow work as I have lots of other things on my plate.

 I went to Perth Modern Quilt Guild yesterday - thank you Girls for the lovely welcome! Wow, did they ever have some great projects under way. At the moment they are working on a challenge of making mug rugs from solids based on their logo. I whipped up a mug rug from an orphan block not knowing the full story - so now I do have a mug rug of my own at least, lol - it will be lovely to take to stitching groups.
Oopsy, new Blogger really doesn't like me! I have started experimenting with little zipper purses to gift with Christmas coming up - here's my first attempt, sort of okay and my pretty seduction roses, though humble my garden is! Let's see what happens when I sign off, which I must do - Mother to Doctor for a checkup this afternoon. For now, happy stitching!
                               

Zig-Zag Blocks!

This has been quite a productive week - well, for me anyway. Big footy finals here this weekend - I'm not a big fan, though I do like NRL, only because of the Broncos, stirs up lovely memories of my home  state, Queensland. So, I am spending time on my quilting!

This is falling into place beautifully - great fun pulling out all the pretty fabrics from my stash. I'm sure I won't have to buy more fabrics for this project, though you know I would if I had to, tee hee! The block are 9" finished, so perhaps finished quilt will be 54" x 63", we'll see! I don't do really big quilts because of body limitations and they taker too long to do anyhow!

Elina has come into my life - a little cheapie, but she is very nice, shame she's missing built-in scissors. She does pack a wee bit of weight, but not too bad - my Big Girl, Janome Memorycraft 6600 is just gorgeous, but too heavy to transport. If I didn't have the Janome, I think I could live with just Elina.

I am now going to have a glass of wine and pop on my iPad to say hello to you Lovelies who commented on my last Post. Happy weekend and may your footy team win, lol!

Lost my signature again - big hugs, Lurline♥

A New Project!

'Another!' I can hear you say - not too many finishes, but life doesn't get boring, lol! I think a lot of us are the same. This time I feel pretty certain I have plenty of the right kind of fabrics in my stash and the weather is warming up so definitely stitching time.

I am using the new interface, so far so good! I don't think I have this laid out correctly, will think about it tomorrow. Inspiration has come from The Root Connection, Painted Zig-Zag Tutorial. Thank goodness I have a few days ahead without commitments - I just might have the time to make sure I am on the right track!

Hope you have had a lovely weekend!

Low Volume Swap Squares!

Things are very slow on the stitching game - here's my 5" squares all cut and ready to be posted!It is a very beautiful day here today - so nice to have warm, sunshiney weather. Maybe, just maybe it will spur me on to get onto my stitching. I do have a new project in mind, and oh, goodness all those WIP's! Hope you are all enjoying your days, too!

Swaps - Triangle and Low Volume!

Back again with a little less frustration with Blogger! All Australian today, thank goodness.

Here's my 30+ Blue Triangles - I posted about the Swap a little while ago. My Girlfriends! and I are doing it on a monthly basis in the following colours: Blue, Green, Gold, Red and Purple. A nice idea!Here are the two fabric I have chosen for the Low Volume Swap. I certainly hope they meet the criteria - now they have to be cut into 5" squares and posted to the US. Just now I am going to put the badge on my sidebar - it is so long since I have done one, let's see if I can work it out.
I did have a little fiddle to get things back to normal on my blog - I had to right some wrongs and toss out some gremlins, I'm not looking forward to the new interface.

There is a lovely sewing retreat on this weekend coming, so it is off to do a bit of shopping for goodies. Lots of fabrics are waiting to be packed - how much will get stitched is the thing - I do tend to chatter a bit when with the girls - so much of my life is given to my family, that it is a bit of a thrill to be frivolous. I must take some bubbles, too - there are some things we just can't do without, lol!

Enjoy your weekend too!

Flimsy!

I really don't know where I am at or what I am doing! Blogger converted me to Chinese, of which I have no knowledge - and then I think he's converted me to the new interface too - I have my fingers and toes crossed that I will be able to post this message. Oopsy! I just lost my pic then and also my signature - looks like I have a bit of studying to do.

I am not sure of the fate of this pretty quilt. As I said, DD loves it, so we'll see. I'm rather happy with the way it has turned out - yes, the neutral blocks have counteracted the brights beautifully.

This is hard-going not knowing what I am doing, so maybe I should spend a bit of time at the sewing machine, then do a bit of research, maybe I can find the old interface, now wouldn't that be lovely. This is not looking so good being automatically centred, and I'm so sorry it is so long since I have posted and there's a few replies I haven't made  ...  so it's ciao for now - hugs, Lurline.