This and That

I had to take DH car in to have a service and the shop is close to a Quilting Store, its been a long time since I had popped into quilting store, it wouldn't hurt to pop in just to look. At that store I picked up the two button & pattens. I think I should have everything else to make these wall hanging in my stash. That was a fun stop, and I had been good taking in DH car, so on the way home I took a small detour passed another quilting store where I picked up the black fabric and the monkey fabric, I have an idea for these will see how it turns out. Not to bad for not having got anything for a while, I did enjoy having a look around both stores.

Last Monday night was our guild summer gathering, which was also a lot of fun. One of the ladies had made pillow cases to give away, I grabbed these for my Australia niece and nephews. Think I will wrap their Christmas present in them.

Not much to show for what I have been working on. Here is a pic of a trivet that we started at guild one night. Mine is a bit wonky but once it's on the table with something hot on it I don't think anyone will notice, lol.

Take Care

Floss

Tulips (still in progress)

After last week post I realized that I had not shown my tulip quilt for a long time - OK it has sat on a shelve for over a year- it needed to age.

I had all the fabric together, but could no longer find the idea of had scribbled down to finish this quilt. I know this is not quite what I had in mind by the large amounts of some fabrics I have left over and the tiny amount of others. I think it is turning out nice, and am please with the setting. I am haft way though adding the last dark green border. Then I will use the left over fabrics to make a back. I may need to add from my stash, but there seems to be lots of the green Flora fabric left. I also have enough of the dark green for the binding. So this doesn't sit for another year I think it will go for long arm quilting.

Working away

I have been working on a few different things but not to much to show yet. Last Friday I had a quilt evening with friends. I cut the border fabric for my flower quilt. Was glad to do this while I could chat, its one of the parts of quilting that I don't enjoy that much, but cutting each border as I was going was making for slow progress.

I was off today so I pulled out my tulip quilt and have been working on the setting. Not much to show for it, but hopefully I have the top finished in the next couple of weeks.

Am going to another quilt evening tonight, so I might even get it finished, this may be a bit of wishful thinking. But I think this is what I am going to take to work on.

A small finish

I picked up these fabric squares on the way to retreat and didn't have any charm patterns with me so decided to just make something simple. The little top came home with me. I kept with the theme and kept the quilting simple too. I used the left over fabric plus a scrap from my stash for the binding. I think it's simple and pretty, the colours remind me of the sand and water at the lake where the retreat was.

Charity Quilts

Hi, it looks like my computer is back up and running. lost a few photos, but luckily had not deleted a lot of at them from my camera.

I wanted to share a few of the charity quilts my quilt made last year. We decided to display them at HP before donating them.

First ocean quilt we were asked to make ocean / beach blocks which we put together as a group.

These other quilts we were given direction on what to make the blocks and the colors to use.

One of our group aims this year was to make more masculine charity quilts.

I think they look terrific displayed among the old cars. And am sure they have gone to loving new owners.

Floss

Computer woes

We after my last post I was going to be so good and try to post more often but before I got the change my computer died. We saved it with a new hard drive but taking some time to get it back up to normal and I lost some photos. Was going to put the ones still on my camera back on only to find the card reader isn't working. DH said he would look at it today. Hopefully back up to speed soon.

Floss

HP Quilt Show

Well I have been a bad blogger, the Heritage Park quilt show was held the last weekend in May and I have been meaning to share a few photo ever since. The weather did not hold out, but all the indoor area were great so still a great show to visit. On the bright side with only quilter at the part the line ups were a lot shorter than other years. I put three small quilts in, I think I have posted all of these quilts before but will share anyway.I am so please with my bunny quilt, I knew that I wanted to put it in, you can see from the photo this was displayed in on of the historic homes child's bedroom.

One of the organizer belong to the guild I go to and she had asked for a few smaller quilts to be enter so I also enter the green table topper and the wall hanging made from left overs.

Hopefully I will be better at blogging.

Floss