AJ's Antics

The lovely Island Kylie has sent me a Doll's Quilt for this years swap. It is a beautiful tiny Log Cabin style quilt in bright orange and green. I've already added it to my wall of little quilts and it looks lovely!! Thanks so much Kylie I really like it! And I of course made one to send to another lovely EBer, Bec !! I wasn't totally happy with this one but Bec's lovely comments on a previous post convinced me to send it to her....after all I had put a lot of time in to it and I really do like the pattern....I'm even thinking out using it again for another quilt!! I few people enquired about the pattern and I don't feel right in posting a tutorial on here, as I got it straight from a magazine, Down Under Quilts Issue 123. It is the quilt on the cover. I like their fabric choices better of course and I have a few of them but not enough variety to go with them, so I chose my own colours from what I had here. I actually like the backing fabric the best!! IVF upd...

More 'birthday' fabric Lovely Yellow Leaves by Jan Mullen from Natalie A bright orange just perfet for what I had in mind from Cylie Some coloured yellow spots from Joy and these 'special' fabrics are from Adds....not sure they are really me!! Fluro Aboriginal prints....???

I have three quilting projects on the go at the moment....ok we all know I have more than 3 but these are the ones I am currently excited about! The first is actually a finished quilt that was sent express post to the middle of nowhere in NSW yesterday...for our EB Doll's quilt swap...one has arrived at my place but I have to wait til the 7th to open it! The second is for a special new delivery! Just waiting to finish the label and it too will be in the post. I'm really please with this one as it has some free motion quilting on it...'free motion' in the sense that I didn't just do 'stitch-in-the-ditch' my regular quiting style. I used a paper cut out of the heart, pined it to the quilt and slowly and carefully stitched around it. Not bad if I do say so...all of the hearts are curved not chunky straight-lined so I'm very pleased. The third is of course Joy's RR that should have been finished ages ago....I was so unsure about what to do....even thoug...

Spent some time and $$ being self indulgent this weekend...and suprisingly non of it was quilting related... Had a lovely morning yesterday shopping with my SIL, who will be moving away in a few weeks time :( so I had to make the most of a shopping buddy. I bought some new clothes and some desperatly needed summer shoes...3 pairs to be exact! And today I bought some summer reading....I call it summer reading cause I won't have time for it until then! Anyone read these???? Good reviews??

I originally bought this to go with Joy's RR...but they only sent me a small FQ instead of the metre that I ordered...I still tried to work it into her quilt but I couldn't make it fit...Will have to make my own 'reef' quilt one day!!

Alannah's Daddy worked out how to email me pictures....so now I expect them every week!!

Playing in the jungle....aka our backyard!!