Fun, Fabric & Friends......

Last Thurs I attended our monthly Central Coast Modern Quilt Guild meeting. We have been making a quilt to raffle for a very special little girl and her family. We are having a sew-a-thon on Oct Sat 29, to raise as much money as we can and the raffle will be drawn that day.

The quilt top is together and I am now custom quilting. It looks fab !!!

Kaleidoscope Quilt.....

Yummy Quilting.........

( just noticed in the photo that a bit of stitching is missing. Turns out the bobbin must have just run out. )

To continue the guild theme, on Saturday some of our guild members headed off up the Pacific Hwy on a bus trip to visit Belmont Patchwork Heart, round the lake to Patchwork By the Lake at Boolaroo and over the mountain range to Harrigans Pub in the vineyards for lunch. We had an absolutely fabulous day!!

Hand over that cash Jane.......

Rhonda, Josie, Yagoda & Jane enjoying a cuppa...........

A shopping frenzy.........

Beautiful new growth vines.......... 

Lunch was awesome..........

Last stop, the chocolate shop.............

I have also been real busy doing my good deed for the year helping out a friend. She has a special project due for a magazine that I have been helping with as she is unwell. Shhh, it's a secret. It wont be published til next March so you'll have to wait til then to see it. Feel better soon B :-)

I'm linked up with WIP Wednesday over at Freshly Pieced.

Happy Quilting

Leanne xo

Bits & Pieces........

I've had a busy week. Mostly custom quilting a clients doily quilt. It's all stictch in the ditch and around the edges of the doilies. I was going to do some freehand on the borders but I thought it would take it away from the doily blocks. It should be finished tomorrow. Phew...

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I finished Oscars dinosaur quilt top. The back is pretty special too.

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I've had these little scraps for a few years now and they were screaming out to be together as a cushion. So here it is.

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Here is a little quilt that I did years ago for a competition for Spotlight. I did really well but I didn't win. Boo...

It is foundation pieced and has been hanging in the shop for the last 3 years. It came home last week and now it will be in a special place on the wall in my sewing space.

Hope you are all getting things done

Happy Quilting

Leanne xo

I Finally Started.....

I have finally started my Farmers Wife Quilt blocks. I just couldn't decide which way to go with it. The thought of templates made me cringe, I love foundation piecing, but a whole quilt??. So as I got started I found it was easy to work out the rotary cutting sizes. Just a few minutes of actual thinking and I was on my way. I couldn't stop. I did 6 in the first day. So I will be doing a combination of rotary cutting and foundation piecing for the harder ones. I have started at number 1 and will continue going up the numbers not missing any ( that's what I say now, only 7 into it, ha)

Attic Windows

Autumn Tints

Basket ( still got to put the handle, so it's just a bowl at the moment)

Basket Weave

Bat Wing

Big Dipper

Birds in the Air

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I also got a start on getting some quilts from last weeks list finished.

I quilted this queen size quilt in an oversize paisley. I just love it. This is the only quilt that my Husband has asked if it is going on our bed. Lucky for me the answer was "Yes". He really likes it. It was suppose to be for winter so it won't be on the bed for too long but I guess there's many more winters to come so I don't feel to guilty that it wasn't done for this year.

Hope you all are getting things done on your list....

I am linking up over at Freshly Pieced. This is where I got inspiration for the Farmers Wife Quilt.

Happy Quilting

Leanne xo

WIP Wednesday..... a day late...

I spent yesterday (Wed) getting swap blocks done. I am late with two and early with two. I hope they all like them. Everytime I do swap blocks I want to make a whole quilt out of each block design. I know I never will, but for just a second it's a good idea.

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I have been doing WIP wednesday for a while now and I have never really fessed up on my real number of WIP's/UFO's. And don't even get me started on projects waiting to be started.

So here goes:

Ongoing Projects

Picnics & Fairgrounds Dresden Plate

Oscar's Dinosaur Quilt

Plume strip pieced diamond quilt- currently being unpicked

Crochet Granny Squares

No Progress or Waiting for Inspiration

Blue & Yellow Dresden Plate - started 7 yrs ago

Angel Embroideries - started 8 yrs ago. Embroideries are done, just waiting for fabric to finish the quilt

Pink HST quilt - started 6 yrs ago. Waiting for inspiration

Scrappy Jacobs Ladder- started 2 yrs ago

Paper pieced Grandmothers Flower Garden - Queen size and just the half flowers to go down the sides.

Paper pieced Diamonds and Hexagons - beautiful antiquey fabric. Usually my camping project but we haven't been camping for 18 mths.

Quilt Tops Waiting to be Quilted -  5 ( I won't even go into that) one is on the frame now!!yay!!

So there you have it!! All confessed up and ready to move on. Wow that was better than therapy. My mind is now uncluttered and I can move on

I am linked up over at Freshly Pieced. Go over and get some inspiation. I know I have to with all those quilts in my cupboard.

Happy Quilting

Leanne xo