AJ's Antics

Last year Nic sent me this little piece of cuteness and this year it was my turn to send her something!   I went with a paper pieced centre, some wonky 'piano keys' around the edges and some plain cornerstones. I quilting by machine around the centre star and then added some echo stitching as well. I then also tried my hand at some 'hand quiltling' What I did was probably more embroidery but I like it all the same. I hope her small daughter enjoys tucking in her dolls under this one!   In return I got another stunning quilt this year!   The talented Anna  made these wonky houses to hang on my wall.       A row of little scrappy houses sit on a curvy hill.     There are little flowers and chimney smoke quilted in and little birds singing in trees.     There is also some lovely silver thread quilted in the sky area...so sparkly!     Thanks Anna! It looks right at home among my other quilts on the wall and as soon as I f

Back Blogging....20th November 2012 As a massive fan of dinosaurs we just had to try out the Lego Dinosaur range. Aden really is too little for proper Lego just yet. He loves playing with the Duplo and can manage it just fine but I'd forgotten how small Lego pieces can be! Lucky Daddy was here to help...so while Aden played with the Dinosaur and the man, Daddy built the vehicle.        He does look pretty pleased with himself if you excuse my bad photography!!     He has kept it together very well and safely put away when not being played with. I still don't think he is ready for a big Lego set just yet.....even if Mummy and Daddy are!

Back blogging....12th November 2012 My little sister has been asking and asking me to teach her to quilt....she has big plans! But I convinced her to start out with a simple pattern and get a few techniques behind her before getting too adventurous. So on Monday while we all had the day off work, Mum, Cee and I got quilting....while I didn't do anything execpt cut fabric for Mum, but we made some progress.   Cee learning to use the rotary cutter! She did really well and ended up with a nice pile of squares ready to join. The colours are not something I would have choosen myself but they work really well together. She started joining squares and I showed her how to join them into 9-patches and chop them apart again! I gave her some homework and I wonder how far along she is?? She has a blog...maybe she can blog her progress!     Mum on the other hand was up for some bunting...over 8 metres worth of fabric for her bunting...I'll show it to you when we have s

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Milly  gave us a link to a fun idea for our online quilting group! A Jelly Roll race! I've heard of it before but never actually watched a tutorial for it. There are heaps on YouTube if you search for 'Jelly Roll Race' or 'quilt race' Here is one I found and watched. I have a Jelly Roll here ready for her to give me a time and date for the race but Milly needed to order a Jelly Roll and wait for it to arrive so in the meantime I decided to practise with a super cheap fake 'Jelly Roll' I had here at home from Spotlight.     It has a very limited number of fabrics and is much smaller than a real Jelly Roll but it was good for the practise....and there is nothing like a new WIP is there!! :)      Fabric stripes layout ready to join All joined together The longest and hardest part of the quilt it joining all the fabric stripes together at the very start. I did these ones with a diagonal join but I think for the next one I'l

What happened to the end of October?? I was sure there were more days to go and all of a sudden it is almost the middle of November! I had a few more blog posts lined up for the last few days in Blogtoberfest but I guess it is a bit late for them now.....here is a quick picture catch up from the last 10 days or so! 300 x 2.5 inch fabric scrap squares for a swap. Backyard car wash now the weather is getting very warm! Dress-up day for DayCare Haircut number 3! Goodbye curls...Hello grown-up boy! Duplo building And it is getting towards the end of the school year so I am currently swamped with marking and writing report cards. I do have a quilting project to share but it needs a separate post.   And I haven't forgotten about the Blogtober giveaway! Pop back tomorrow to see who the winner is!   Remember you need to comment on the blog post for October 1 for any of your entries to count and then each comment on any post for the month of Octo