The Splendid Sampler Virual

Some of my blocks in EQ7 virual Quilt... all blocks are 6"  .......

My "The Splendid Sampler" Blocks plus two extras

Another of my favorite quilt to do is "Sampler" ....   This year I started another one ...ya! ya! I know I need to finish one first......  Here are some of my 6" blocks from "The Splendid Sampler" plus two extras
  http://www.thesplendidsampler.com/blocks-and-bonus-projects/

Whats a girl to do with lots and lots of heaxgons make a quilt

Cutting and Cutting 1" hexagons for my scrappy quilt..... All fabrics bright, Repro, flowers  and thing I can get..... to make this quilt all scrappy...

Hexagons made up into flowers of 7 and five.

A little hexagon farmer has been going on here as I have a few friends who have been joining me ....

Fussy Cutting stars and class

What is a girl to do when life gets in the way...SEW.... so here is some of what I have been making over the last year..

                                                Fussy Cutting Stars  plus a needle case

Fussy Cutting Stars Workshop with Rachael Porter

Its been a while....... and new projects "Hexagons"

Life just gets in the way......
I have been working on a few  Hexagon projects at the moment...

 

One inch hexagon fabrics  came  pre-cut and I am enjoying doing these..  have a lovely bluey colour fabric to join them altogether..    The next one on the go is a lovely pattern from Rhonda Pearce from Post Office Patchwork.... My two friends and myself purchase the papers  from Rhonda at the Mad Quilters Gathering a few years again...

My collection of Civil War fabrics is growing  as my friend calls them dirty fabrics.... lol...
I have used 2" hexagons and 2" diamond papers.. The diamond papers have ben cut in half.. Pine Tree Lodge is the tan fabric use for triangles in-between the hexagons
                                                                                               

Grandmothers Choice quilt finished

On the 25th September 2013 I  finished my Quilt top for Grandmothers Choice BOW.
I am having it machine quilted in the near future...

Grandmothers Choice Blocks update

I have been working on my Grandmothers Choice Purple and Green Blocks in the last twelve months and I am almost finished..
There are 49 blocks in this quilt and I have all but one more to make..
You can see my blocks at my flickr site.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/58925705@N02/


The Grandmothers Choice Civil War Pinks Blues & Brown blocks are a bit behind hope to get back to working on them after I get my Purple ones finished..

Here are my blocks set into a virtual quilt

Friendship Quilt

This Friendship Quilt was started in 2005 when all my ladies at my patchwork/craft group" Crafty Chicks"  all made blocks and then we swapped .... now time has passed and its 2013...
The quilt has been now been finished with help from Professional Long Arm Machine Quilter
Sue Olma from SO She Quilts.... www.soshequilts.com.au

who did a lovely job customising each block and the borders with a great designs..

                                                 The Label with all the info about this quilt...

 

Here are close up photo's of some of the quilted blocks..

 

So one more UFO down 30+ more to go!!!!!!!!! hehehe......................

Chameleon Roses

My Father In Law  loves to grown roses from cuttings.... and he gave me one....

Its called Chameleon Rose ......First saw it growing at the Gardens in the Hunter Valley..