Friday Block Party

Sewing this week has been a bit limited as I've probably had the swine flu. Symptoms were not particularly bad, but feeling oh so tired all the time. Making blocks is about my limit!! The first one is called game cocks (which according to wiki is a type of chook and in the US an athletic team). This came together beautifully, even with all those tiny pieces (10" block).



My second block, blindman's fancy, (12") was quite a challenge! My 3 & 11/16 inch centre (can you believe that measurement!) was too small so ended up being re-cut at 4". I then needed to adjust the white inner border to match the outside border. The light outside was fading so I had to dash into the garden to get the last few rays! But glad to get that one finished. Both patterns came from Quilters Cache.

Ros

Summertime Mini Quilt

I received this beautiful 'Lady of the Lake' mini-quilt from Debra in Toronto. She grew up by the lake and has some wonderful memories. These tiny triangles are less than 1" square and match perfectly! Thank you Debra for a truly splendid mini-quilt.

Ros

Janice has just asked me the size of this mini-quilt - it is 18" square.

Busy making blocks

Friday Block Party - Flight of Swallows

A Gift of Quilts, 2012 Olympic Quilt

Twenty of us from the PP Forum were given a teacup to incorporate into a star block. I thought this looked like a summer picnic. Everyone else seems to have used a blue theme. Trust me to have done something different! Read more about it here

A Basket of Flowers for Terry's Quilt
(see button on sidebar)

And finally, a Basket of Grapes for Jo
Friendship Block for October ("Purple")

This was a challenge - I had very little purple in my collection and its not a colour I would choose on its own. The purple basket is a glitter fabric and the background is tiny lilac sprigs.

Ros

Summertime Swap

Here is the summertime quilt which I made for my swap partner, Melanie in Australia.

A close-up showing the sparkly centre of the sunflower.

I was rather pleased to find this piece of batik for the back!

Ros

Friendship Block Swap

September's block goes to Anita in Bonnaire, Netherland Antillies. Anita asked for flowers or birds on a blue or green background. I loved the challenge of doing a bird, but when looking for patterns I couldn't find much at all. Then I remembered that when Anita sent her block to me back in May she enclosed a beautiful postcard of flamingos, which are native to her country. That was it!

After a lot of searching I came up with this paper pieced pattern from Margaret Rolfe's book 'Quilters Ark' which had been sitting on my bookshelf all along.


It reminded me of the patterns I wanted to make when I bought the book, but as a beginner I just didn't have the range of fabric scraps needed to make these. I have bagfuls of scraps now, so here is a good reason to use them!! Here are some of my favourite pages from the book.


Ros

A beautiful visit by St Therese

http://littleflowerblog.blogspot.com/

While I recover from the events of the last few days, I thought you would like to see the story on my other blog.

Photostream here

And photos from the official photographer here.

Ros

All set for tomorrow!

All the preparations are in place, church cleaned, banners made, flowers arranged, ready for our special visitor tomorrow evening. We are expecting as many as three thousand people during the course of her stay. This is going to be awesome!!

Ros