Dave went to a Quilt Shop!

 Dave was in Alaska for 1 month and actually went to a quilt shop and bought a quilt kit for me. It is gorgeous and will look great when made. I want to practice some techniques before I start this one though.

I finished my mini City Harbour and still love it. The colours are great and do not show in the photo as it is cloudy and raining for a change. If I wait I may never get a photo of it. I am working on the lap size version now.

I love Minis

I love minis!!!I decided to test the City Harbour quilt from City Quilts by making a scaled down version. The measurements are about 2/3 of the original with 8 rows. The main reason I did this was to see if I like the Teal in it. Well I love the Teal and I love the mini so I now want to make every quilt in the book in mini. How cool would that be. I have all the rows sewn on the real size one, I just need to sew them all together. I think I will finish the mini first and see how the quilting looks.



It was very cloudy so I could only take photos in the lounge room on the blanket box. You could not see the whole thing so I took photos of each end.

I have managed to get a little sewing time.I made three granny square blocks. I am not trimming them yet because who knows when I will finish enough and be ready to put them in a quilt.I am not good at scrappy so when I saw what Sewfantastic did with hers I had a brainwave. I would use black and white for the inside squares and a different colour for each block. I could not get a colour exactly like Kona Ash but I found a nice grey at lincraft. It is one of their quilters homespun and is really nice.

  I bought Rhani a new bed. A bean bag from the op shop. She loves it. Isn't she cute.




  I made something for gran. I can't show it as she reads my blog. Here is the back.

Progress Report

I have been working on my City Harbor Quilt from the City Quilts. I love the quilt in the book and decided to make it exactly as Cherri made it. I have made the first set of rows and love how it looks. I am not sure about the teal blue colour in the next set of rows. It looks great in the book but it looks a lot greener to me in real life. I am going to make the whole row except that teal and then decide.

I have also got on the granny square band wagon. I am using some charm squares I have had for a while but want to use kona ash for the background and I do not have enough. I don't want to order anything online for a while as I need to reduce my stash so I might see if I can find something similar locally.I know I should have ironed the fabric but who knows how long it would take me to post this if I did that.

Where did the time go?

 Things have been busy. I managed to finish the placemats a while ago and finally I have gotten around to blogging about them. I am still reading all my blogs but not doing much in the way of contributing by commenting or posting.

 I made this mug rug for Debbies' birthday.

We had our last race of the season on our wedding anniversary, which would probably be OK if we both raced but Dave just came to watch. This is near the end with only about 1 km to go. I am surprised at how much I enjoyed competing and hope to race with this team again next year.

A tale of four Placemats

I decided to make placemats using the tutorial by Alissa over  on her blog, Handmade by Alissa

This is the the fabric and the placement I decided  to use.

 This is the first one I made. Soo I decided to have 2 like this and 2 as planned.

 This is the next one I made. Sooo I decided to have 4 different placemats!!!

I like them now they are done. I am quilting them now so hope to show the finished product soon.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery

At least I hope it is.


I have been very busy and so of course got sick too which has resulted in very little sewing time. It seemed like if I had 5 minutes to spare I would go in the sewing room and achieve nothing. Then I saw this little gem and decided it would be quick and if I copied it I would not waste time choosing fabrics and a design. The colours have been changed but everything else is the same and I love it. It will hang on the wall above my machine. Victoria has made a similar one to her original with colours inspired from blood oranges which is gorgeous and very vibrant. Victoria's blog, The Silly Boo Dilly is always inspirational and I have made a few wonky stars in my time too.

The colours are better in real life



The back all ready to hang!