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I have been posting to instagram instead of here. I love how quick it is! Here are some of the latest photos.

A couple more Skulls

I have had some fun sewing skulls. I have made seven out of the sixteen I plan to make!

Q1 FAL

I know it is a finish along but I like to list all the things I want to do.

1. Skull quilt

Love this and want to finish it for our bed.
2.Emu cross stitch

I really need to finish some cross stitches I have started. I am still pinning new ones to make!
3. Finish 9 patch quilt

This a very old one.

4. Start quilt for brothers 60th
I cant believe I found the perfect pattern already. The sundance quilt by Melissa at polkadot chair. It is a new free tutorial which is exactly what I was looking for.


5. Make bags
I have been wanting to make several different bags for ages and never get around to it.

6. Finish Breezy Day quilt top

Six things. I think it is a doable list. Let's see how I go.
Linking to She can quilt FAL

Q4 FAL: Hawthorne Quilt Done

Yay I finished the Hawthorne quilt for my bother in time to take it to Perth.

Here is a shot of the finished quilt.

 All four quilts are washed and ready to go.

Linking to She Can Quilt Q4 FAL

Q4 FAL:Twin Quilts Done

I finished the two quilts for my twin nieces. The pattern is a freebie at Me and My sister designs.
It uses a Jolly bar so I bought a layer cake and cut it in half to get two quilts.

Linking to She Can Quilt Q4 FAL

Q4 FAL Baby Quilt

I finished a quilt for my soon to be born great niece. I cant believe I am going to be a great Aunt! Scary thought. I used a free tutorial called jungle lattice by Craft buds.

Linking to She Can Quilt Q4 FAL

January OMG

Now I have finally finished my sewing for Perth I can sew any of my million WIPs. Only a slight exaggeration.  My January goal is to make some more skull blocks. My filing system means I just need to grab the drawer with this project.

Here are the blocks I have already made.


Linking to Elm Street Quilts OMG.

December OMG

I decided to finish the baby quilt first as I really want to take that to Perth with me to give my niece so I didn't finish the Hawthorne quilt. I am up to hand sewing the binding down so it is very close to done.


Linking to Elm Street Quilts

2018 Planning Party

Quilting Jet Girl is hosting a planning party so I thought I would join. 

The main things I want to do next year is get more organised. I love starting projects and don't like to work on one thing at a time so I have bought drawers to store WIPs. I can just grab a draw and sew whatever I feel like at the time. Hopefully I will get some old projects finished by organising them into drawers too. I still need to do some serious sorting in my sewing room.

 I would love to make one quilt from each of my quilt books and from my love patchwork and quilting magazines (these are the only magazines I still buy the hard copy).

I want to join a few sew alongs. Two are with Angie at GnomeAngel. She is doing an Elizabeth Hartman All the animals sew along and another 100m days 100 blocks with the Tula Pink book which I missed last time. I am sure there will be more!

One thing I don't want to do again is try and finish four quilts at once to take to Perth with me! Although I do want to try and make quilts for all my family and friends.

So my plan is to keep making things I enjoy, continue to start way too many projects but try and be a little more organised about it!

baby quilt done

So I finished quilting the baby quilt. I used a free tutorial called jungle lattice by Craft buds. The tutorial says it finishes at 40 by 48 and mine is 45 inches square so not sure how that happened. I didn't follow it closely, mainly used the pictures. I love how it turned out. I just bought some pink fabric for binding as we now have a quilt shop!!!

I quilted in the sashing. Quick, easy and the quilt should be nice and soft.

I saw some succulents in a pot at the markets which were really nice but expensive so a friend and I made our own version.

A distraction

I finished this mini for a friend and now I really need to get back to those quilts. I really feel like making some Christmas things for the house but I cant. I might have to do some in January when I get back from Perth.

The backing for two quilts arrived from the Fat Quarter Shop so now I have no excuses! I had to order more  to take the order to the maximum for same shipping cost of course.

December OMG

My OMG for December is to finish the Hawthorne quilt. I have ordered the backing from the Fat Quarter Shop during their Black Friday sale so hopefully it will arrive soon.

I need to finish four quilts before January 7th when I fly to Perth and I have only completely finished one so I need to get a move on. I have been sidetracked making a Christmas present the last few days.
Linking to Elm Street Quilts OMG.

Quick post

I bought the spelling bee book by Lori Holt. I have wanted this for a while but was too expensive to order from the U.S and then Australian shops had Black Friday sales. I ordered it for 40% off from Cotton Factory in Ballarat.
 

I am not happy with the house block at the moment so have started another mini for my friend. She loves trees!

Another Skull

I finished another skull and again I love it!!!

I finished quilting the purple twin quilt so I decided to make another house for my mini and I don't like it. I thought the orange background might pop but I really don't like this block. I am having trouble finding combinations I like so I might make a mini with 6 houses.

Leaders and enders

I have been sewing triangles cut off from quilts as my leaders and enders project but now I have a heap of them. So I am sewing some them into a Indian Summer quilt. My squares are 2.5 inches instead of 3.5 but I think it will be a good baby quilt. I am using the squares from my nieces quilts to make a quilt for another nieces baby due in January.
Here is the link to the free pattern.
https://suzyquilts.com/indian-summer-free-baby-quilt-pattern/

October OMG

Edit.  So I was so focused on finishing this that I linked it to the November goal not the October finishing post. I even forgot to make a November goal. Hope to be back on track for December but we will see how that goes!

Made my October goal with 6 hours to spare. I finished piecing the Hawthorne Quilt. It is meant to have another row but at 64 inches square I think it is big enough especially since I have to quilt it myself. I am very happy with it as I think brown and gold are not great colours but look good with the white. I don't think I will find a backing to match the top so I might order some newsprint backing fabric which will work with white thread for quilting.

Now I am going to reward myself with sewing a skull.

Some fun sewing

I had a break from half square triangles and made some skulls from the Tula Pink pattern. My husband loved the test block so it is going to be quilt for our bed.

Whales and fabric

I picked the fabric for my skulls. It is a bit scary that I have so much in my stash I didn't need to buy anything except the background fabric.

The whales are migrating south and we have been lucky enough to see them a few times. Yesterday one went under our canoe and surfaced next to us. It was amazing. The other canoe took a photo. It is hard to see it but that choppy water is a whale swimming away.

The whale swam past the other boat for a look too. You can see the white as she rolls over.

It was an amazing experience!

Half way

I am getting pretty sick of half square triangles but I love how this looks. I am only going to do four rows and make a square quilt. I think it will be the biggest quilt I have quilted myself. Even though it is quicker to work in order I find I need to alternate between the cutting, making half square triangle, sewing blocks and sewing rows, and I still need to alternate between projects. Talk about a short attention span.

One quilted and ready to bind

I had to show the back of this quilt as it is gorgeous. I am so happy with this fabric.