Phew!

Finally finished cutting for Bloom Bloom Pow, the Freshly Pieced quilt along. It's been a long, hard road. My hands don't cope well with extended cutting so I have done it in small increments. It is also the first time I think I have ever cut everything for a quilt before I have started to sew. D'oh! I still have to cut the black background.

Back to the cutting board!

Let's Get Going With Wonky Star Sewing!

Let's get going with wonky star sewing!

The best bit first - choose your fabrics.  With this one I decided to have the star all the same colour, so only two fabric choices.

I like to cut and lay out everything first.  That way I know there is nothing missing when I start to sew.  What a messy cutting table. 

Sew.

Cut.

Iron

Trim

Lay out,, ready to sew together.  It's looking good.

Three rows of three.  Iron the seams in alternating opposite directions so that the seams interlock when pinned for sewing.

Pinned, interlocking seams!  What a lovely fit.

Voila!

Or this way with six different fabric choices.  What a gorgeous wonky star!  For all the instructions on this one you will need to check out Modern Blocks, 99 Quilt Blocks From Your Favourite Designers.  This one is called Parisian Star and is designed by Leanne Cohen. 
Too easy.  Have fun!

Lovely Stars

These lovely star blocks are for Bronwyn Beazley in QCA Bee #2. Such fun to get out my old stash and find some Civil War fabrics.  Naturally, there is a bit of red in them both.  Because I can't help myself.  Everything has to have a bit of red in it.  At least these are muted, civil war type reds.
Now I wonder what April will bring for Bee #2?  I am way ahead of myself.

Revelation.

Today I changed the blade in my rotary cutter.


Why oh why did I not do it before? Now I have a beautiful, smooth cut with no sore wrists. No grappling with the cutter because the blade is dodgy! Let's all resolve to change our blades more often. Yes!

Blogger, Where Have I Been?

What a good question. Busy of course, doing "stuff" Thought it about time I posted about some of the "stuff".

These two beauties were for Molli Sparkles, a Quilt Club Australia officianado. I wasn't in his particular Bee, but when I saw these blocks felt compelled to make a couple. So glad I did. It was so much fun. And Molli loved them.

My Ipad Cover Rocks.

This weekend was particularly productive because, for once, I decided to attempt a small project.  Voila, finished in a day.  How satisfying is that?

 

 

I love the red teddy fabric I found in my stash.  How long have I had that for, I wonder?

The name tag is typed and printed by me.  Just incase I lose my ipad which isn't going to happen.

Perfect fit!.

Step #1.  Technical Printing.  Had to use some words from the fabulous fat quarter of word print I got from Pink Chalk Fabrics.

The pattern for this Irresistable Ipad Cover is from Modern Quilting Unlimited magazine, the digital download.

http://modernquilts.mqumag.com/welcome-to-modern-quilts-unlimited/

Go have a look.  I love it.

Busy Bee

Today a new post.  Pretty unusual really.  Good to do though.  I have been very busy with my blue stash.

Voila, blue rectangle quilt based upon Film In The Fridge's Rectangle Squared Quilt.  And here is the back.

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Back of Rectangle Quilt

 



 

Also, after reading many posts regarding what could be found at Big W, I went on a FQ hunt and here's what I found, in Mirrabooka.

This made me feel very happy.  Perhaps I should trawl all the Big W stores in the State!  Hmm...perhaps not.
One more thing.  I found a bag of fabric that I've been saving for a quilt that I will never finish and on a whim thought "I wonder if there is any Low Volume fabric in that lot?"
There was. 

 

 

Witness the start of my Low Volume stash!