WIP Wednesday

I have been busy turning these charm squares into HST's for another project. 

Hope to show you some more progress on these soon!

Linking to WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced.

 

Kirsten.

A Marmalade Triple-Zip Pouch

My sewing machine has arrived back home after being serviced - apparently there was a lot of thread caught up which I couldn't see which may explain why I have been having so many tension issues lately!! 

I immediately sewed up a project that I have been meaning to do for quite a while now, which was another one of Debbies Triple -zip pouches.

So now I have a matching pair of these to give to my nieces for Christmas gifts. This was also the last project on my 3rd quarter FAL list hosted by Leanne at She Can Quilt.

Linking to Fabric Tuesday at Quiltstory.

Kirsten.

SSM swap - sent and received!

Now that my secret partner has received her swap parcel, I can post a few more pics!

 I used the Blooming QAYG pillow tutorial to make a pillow for my partner Angela.

 And a little matching Wide Open Zippered pouch using Anna @ Noodleheads tutorial - I made sure I got the "A"  from the typewriter fabric on this side:) 

 

And I saw that Angela also liked ombre so used some of the pink Simpy Color ombre fabric for the binding.

I also received my fabulous package from Leona yesterday too, including a beautiful set of fabric baskets and some lovely DS fabrics!!

Photo borrowed from Leonas flickr photostream

Leona made the fabric baskets using DS Chicopee and some Heather Ross fabrics - I never suspected that she was making for me but maybe all of the Denyse Schmidt fabrics should have been a giveaway as she knows how much I love her designs:)  So thank you so much Leona, and thanks also to Lee (maychappell) for organsing the swap.
Kirsten.

WIP Wednesday

The 3rd quarter finish-a-long is nearly here and I have one last project to sew before my list is done.

 Another of Debbies fabulous triple-zip pouches - just love making these!!

And I also still have the Aus Mod Bee blocks for September to sew up for Julie with these colourful fabrics that she has sent out, but my sewing machine is going in for a much needed service so these may end up being a little late:(

Linking to WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced.

Kirsten.

Simply solids September Bee block

After making a bunch of colourful HST's last week, I have now sewn them into the Value HST block for Camilla in the Fallow group of the Simply Solids bee.

I think these blocks are going to make a stunning quilt!

Linking to Fabric Tuesday at Quiltstory.

Kirsten.

A little Liberty Love!

September is Craft book month at Craft Buds!  I really wanted to make something from the Liberty Love book that I received for my birthday a few months ago, so when I saw that Penny had started up a Marcelle Medallion quilt along I thought that it might be the push start I needed to make one. 

 Alas, between birthdays and sport finals, September is quite a busy month in our household so all I could manage was a smaller project from the book, a sweet little pincushion.

I used some Chicopee fabrics from Denyse Schmidt,  with a piece of black denim for the back of the pincushion - the large white ric rac was in my stash from my scrapbooking days.

I tried to arrange the fabric strips in the warm/cool colours for the log cabin block. 

This was such a fun and quick project - although I do hope to still make the Marcelle Medallion quilt one day!

Linking up with Craft Buds - pop over to see the other lovely craft book projects that have been made. There is also a blog hop with lots of fabulous inspiration!

Kirsten.

No time to sew ...

 In between a busy few days,  I managed to make a quick trip up to Brisbane to visit the Quilts 1745-1900 exhibition at the QLD Art Gallery, just days before it is due to finish. The exhibition included many quilts from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London - the detail in them was just incredible.

My favourite quilt was the one on the right in this photo which is the Military Quilt (William Brayley, about 1880's) - it is actually made up of hundreds of tiny perfect hexagons. 

 Image credits

There are more details about this quilt on the V and A site here.

There was also a modern quilt display with quilts by Ruth Stoneley: A Stitch in Time which was a wonderful contrast to the V and A quilts.  I really liked her Trip Around the World quilt (sorry about this blurry iphone pic).

We have had a lot going on around here recently - our daughters 18th birthday party last week.

Our sons soccer team winning the U15 grand final 4-3 on Saturday. It was quite an exciting match as they led 3-1 at halftime and just managed to score again near the end of the game.

And our daughter graduated from high school on Tuesday. There was a lovely ceremony at her school - she still has to do her HSC exams in about a months time, and then of course attend the Graduation Ball in November. School holidays start here tomorrow so hopefully it will be a bit quieter around here for a while!

Kirsten.