Rainbow Scrappy, Monthly to do List, Shopping, Sewing.

Well I've not been blogging for the last two weeks arrrg!, getting withdrawal symptoms...
My mum is not on the internet yet and so ... no access.
I know, I know, you can do it on your mobile these days but I'm just not that techno savvy.

It's been lovely to catch up with Mum, my brother and sis-in-law, our eldest daughter and her 3 kids, more on that next week.

While RS2013 blog hopping,/ I saw so many gorgeous combinations with the 3 colours that for my rainbow scrappy this month (March/Orange) I decided to go back to Jan and Feb and sew some hand sewn blocks, with pink, purple and orange .... well I got so busy doing other things that this is as far as I got.

It's dangerous joining sewing groups and blogs, you get too many ideas. I was so inspired by the Asian quilt done by one of the Woodpatch Quilters (see Feb show and tell in  http://woodpatchers.blogspot.com.au) that I have to make one of my own and went looking for Asian fabics to suit and this is what I found in a week of shop hopping.  There are so many more quilting shops in Vic than we have in the adelaide hills and so we've had a lot of fun shopping.

So many yummy fabrics, and as one of them has hexagons (it's a cheat fabric) I decided to so some hexy  blocks, got one lot finished and another started, for the ends of a row I'll applique them onto the dark blue probably, then do a block of the cheat hexy, and then in the centre a hexy shape shasiko (??) stitched block, I think that  will look nice.
I thought I had a pretty good haul but then yesterday did a quick trip, a 3 minute walk around the corner from my daughter's house (lucky girl) to a nice little Qshop and found these, 2 more Asian and a couple more for my William Morris or maybe for a Farmer's Wife block quilt (more on that another time).

We are supposed to update our Monthly to do List on the last for the month, but i won't be able to access the internet again till Monday night so here 'tis.

1) Make Mug wrap for Mum.    DONE - and was very popular with the family that I've started another one for my sis-in-law's birthday in a few weeks.

2) Finish sashing and borders for Alaskan/Canadian wild animal batik quilt - DONE the top is all finished and I love it. Forgot to take a picture.

3) Get Jayden's quilt on the quilting frame and start quilting it. HMMM - parly done as the backing is on the frame but I have to confess that that was already done when I wrote the list.

4) Make a knee rug for Father in law with Vintage Motorbike fabric DONE - wellthe top anyway because I forgot to pack the wadding and backing, so quilting it will be on next months list.

  5) Finish competition entry for Wangaratta Art Gallery, Contempary Textile Awards - DONE and the entry form was sent off and has been received so now we wait to see if it's accepted for the exhibition.

6) Cut out and start quilt from "Apple of my Eye" fabric. DONE - the top is finished and ready to take home and quilt, I think next month will have lots of quilting on the list and I LOVE how it came out, I have a pretty green for the binding that picks up the green leaves.

 7) Must do! Add sleeve etc to finish "A Thread of Hope" quilt and send off to French competition along with the reticule entry. DONE - well not sent yet, that will be done when I get home next week
 but sleeve and label has been put on.


ALSO DONE this month ...

1)Finished the reticule, by beading the knot on the second draw string, it just needs labelling and then will go to France with 'A Thread of Hope' for the Exhibition later this year, the picture shows the one the left not done but it is now.

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2)Made the Asian hexies shown above.

3) Started a new Rainbow Scrappy thingy shown above.

4) Worked some more on a William Morris Block, got the green leaves done and most of the red bits, here's a pic of it with some of that done.

 5) Helped our daughter with her applique quilt for her daughter, just sketched a couple of things for the blocks and of course went fabric shopping with her, SUCH a trial but someone has to do it  (big martyred sigh here).

Anyway must run for now, hope to get back to blogging on Monday.
Wishing all who celebrate it a very blessed and happy Easter, and if that's not you have a great weekend anyway.

I need help with pages

Hmmm, I'm having trouble working out how to add a new post to the page I want to on my blog instead of it just going to the HOME page.

Progess ... well not really ... on rainbow scrappy

Well I've been doing really well on my To do list, mostly because they have serious deadlines, and looking at everyone else's rainbow posts, wow, that can eat up some time, but it's so much fun!
So I haven't gotten much done myself for it.

I have .... finished the mug wrap to go with the mug rug as a gift for my Mom who likes giraffes, it's sort of orangy brown??

Here it is on the mug rug showing the cute giraffe button on the other side...

 and a close shot of the cute button...

I also finished my orange, gold and blue, batik wild animal quilt top (you'll have to wait till the end of the month and see that on my Monthly To do page).

And this is definitely orange, I did some more on my funny felted thingy that I can't show too much of but I think I can show you this much ....

 
I was very surprised when, inspired by my blog hopping, I checked out my stash and found all this orange. I would have said I didn't have much  but look what I found ....

Yummy, yummy, yummy.
So now the question is what do I do with them, I've seen so many cool blocks, crumbs, stars, baskets, courthouse, log cabin, spool, houses, strippy etc, etc, I hardly know where to start, not to mention that I have more than fits in my monthly to do list already, maybe I'll have to do my orange blocks next month along with whatever colour comes up then??? What do you think?

And then ... I think I might have to make some pink and purple too because they look so good with everyone's orange .... ooooh perhaps getting into blogging wasn't such a good idea .... but it feel so good!

Monthly to do lists

I'm a big one for to do lists . . . writing them anyway. Not so good as following them, and i've been known to add something I've done that wasn't on the list just so I can cross it off for that wonderful feeling of accomplishment ... that's not cheating is it??
 So.. I've signed up on a Monthly to do list at Pigtales and Quilts, I'm thinking it will be fun and inspiring to share with others, all trying to keep to our plan.  Check out http://www.pigtalesandquilts.com/2013/03/i-am-looking-forward-to-getting-more.html?showComment=1362866987551#c7941832906407504550 and sign up along with us.

Here's something I finished last month but it need a mug wrap to go with it and that's going to one my list as this is a gift for my Mum Dorothy Barton (so please anyone who knows her, DON'T say anything as it's a surprise.

Now my to do list.

1) Make Mug wrap for Mum.
2) Finish sashing and borders for Alaskan/Canadian wild animal batik quilt
3) Get Jayden's quilt on the quilting frame and start quilting it.
4) Make a knee rug for Father in law with Vintage Motorbike fabric
5) Finish competition entry for Wangaratta Art Gallery, Contempary Textile Awards
6) Cut out and start quilt from "Apple of my Eye" fabric.
7) Must do! Add sleeve etc to finish "Hope" quilt and send off to French competition along with the reticule entry.

Hmmm, I may need to prioritise these a bit as I am going to be away for half the month, I'll probably take the knee rug and apple fabric with me to do while visiting my Mum.

Here are the blocks for the Animal fabric, I have sewn the sashing and the first borders are cut out ready.  I made these over a year ago when we got back from a trip to Canada with an Alaskan cruise.
You can't see how gorgeous the fabrics are, I'll take more pics for other posts.

Well I'd better got going, as it looks like I have a lot to do.