Young Quilters

Yesterday was a lovely quilty day here in Wales. Region 12 (south and mid Wales) of the Quilters Guild had a regional day. I am Young Quilters rep for Region 12, so at these events I run a class for the children. I only had 2 girls at my class yesterday, my own home-grown YQ and 1 other, but they enjoyed the project that I had devised for them - Halloween Banners.
This is Bronwen's banner. I had created a sample with a pumpkin as the picture, but she preferred to make a spooky ghost instead. I'm very proud of her, she isn't a huge fan of hand stitching but persevered with the big wool stitches by herself.



In the afternoon we had a talk from Marie Roper. Her quilts were gorgeous, and she generously allowed us to pass them around to have a really good look. Bronwen and I particularly like her horse quilts - wish I could machine quilt like that!
There was a shopping opportunity too, I bought a book and some fabric ( will show that later!)
All in all a lovely lovely day!

Trying to live up to my name!

So far this week I've had very little time, and little inclination to do much more in the evening than veg out in front of the tv. But I decided that today I was not going to do the same thing. I have a little box of scraps cut up into 2.5 inch strips ready for a pattern I saw on Quiltville. I still need to cut up more pieces, but I needed a fix of something nice and simple to stitch and so I've started piecing the blocks. The quilt is called Crayon Box and it looks like it will grow quite quickly once I get going. I have a few blocks in various stages of construction, but here's a finished one.



I think this is going to be a bright quilt!

I have another top pieced from a Quiltville pattern. This one is waiting to be quilted ( along with about 4 other quilts in various stages of completion!). This was another quilt that I used only fabrics from my stash to make. Not bad!



Now if I can make about another 20 I might begin to see the mountain going down! LOL!

Another project (almost) complete

My little button picture that we did at the local quilt shop is done ( well the sewing part is complete!) This is the class that I went to with DD the other week (her first grown-up quilt class!). We made little suffolk puffs and attached them to a quilted background with buttons. This one just needs a picture frame now, so it's off to the shops I go tomorrow.



Now I just need to persuade Bronwen to sit down for long enough to finish hers off. Hopefully she will be inspired by the sight of mine.

More lovely mail!

Wow the postman brought me some more goodies today!
I ordered the fat quarter bonanza from the Fat Quarter Shop, that's 12 co-ordinating fqs for $16.80, surprise on colour etc. This is the set I got, chocolate and pink ( have I mentioned that pink is my favourite colour?) sort of art nouveau theme. And 12 fqs is a good number to have for a decent sized quilt.



Any ideas about what I can do with these beauties would be most welcome!

At last Blogger will let me upload photos.
Here is my lovely Autumn quilt.



And detail of the applique and quilting.


Isnt it lovely?

Thank you Bren!

Better get off to work now :(

Post once more!

I'm happy to say that the effects of the postal strike seem to be over at last. Woohoo! This means that my Four Seasons swap quilt has arrived!
Bren has sent me a beatiful applique basket quilt. The hand quilting on it is gorgeous too.

Blogger wont let me upload photos just now which is a shame as this quilt is really lovely but I will try again later

Not too much this week

DH is shouting at the rugby on the TV, so I thought I would catch upon here for a bit. I cant believe it's been a week since I last posted, very remiss of me. I've had a very very busy week at work creating a prototype, so I didn't pick up a piece of fabric til Thursday. Since then I've managed to piece all of the rows of my Surprising 4-patch quilt, and most of the joining rows too. This means that I don't really have anything very interesting to show you though! But I should get the centre done early next week, watch this space!
I've had a frustrating afternoon though. I have done the first round of my first mini round robin block, all very good, I was quite pleased with the pieced border I put on. The, when I came to square it up - disaster! The wretched thing is 1 inch too big! It's supposed to be 8.5 inches and mine is 9.5. I cant send it on regardless, because this will mess up things for the other people in the group. So, I will just have to bite the bullet and unpick it. I cant face that tonight though. For now, I'm going to try to relax and have a glass of wine instead!