Note to self....

Don't throw out your $100 camera battery with sewing scraps

Work in Progress

I started making this quilt the day I found that one of my best friends had had a little girl. I finished the quilt top really quickly. It's this one from Oh Fransson!
Then the quilt top sat and waited for me to have my baby girl :)
And now, only 5mths later am I actually getting it quilted.

The party has started

Quiltstory's Block Party has started...finally.

I've been waiting to see what blocks people come up with. Very exciting.

This is mine. I am going to enter it into the modern category.

I didn't manage to get around to making another block. May be able to squeeze making one in tomorrow. I really wanted to do a wonky star

Go have a look at all the great entries here

My first Block Party

Quilt story are having a block party.




and I thought I would join in.
My first block is one from Elizabeth Hartmans new book A Practical Guide to Patchwork. Its a block from a quilt she has called rain and shine. The points were a little tricky.

I like that whenever I look at the block a different perspective stands out to me

Now to find another new block to try.

tree

when i first saw this tree i fell in love.

And my mum loves hexagons. I wanted to make it for her. I have never been that good at hand piecing, I'd tried hexagons before but a long time ago. I really enjoyed making them. It was really great to do some hand sewing.
I used my scraps, funny thing is that a lot of them were her scraps that she had given me when I’d been looking to make “something”.
I reverse engineered this beautiful tree. Making up as I went.
I finished it. Eventually. Just in time to give to her for Christmas. I am pretty pleased with the outcome. Mum loves it. Even my nasty stitching in the trunk.

beginnings

thought i might collect a few things. a bit of this and bit of that.