Full Steam Ahead...

Well, the holidays have finally come to an end. Two boys back to school today and the big one is back tomorrow. Yay!!! Back to a routine...I love routine....

I am back teaching at All About Sewing on Thursday. I'm really looking forward to seeing all the ladies after my long summer break.

I have been steadily getting samples done for my classes and for the Block of the Month programmes that I am doing this year.

Sabrina is finished and hanging in Southern Cross Needlework at East Maitland. It will be a BOM this year and into the next year

On my bed... look at that stack of quilts over in the corner.... 

She is quite heavily quilted.... this is the most custom quilting I have done on a quilt. It was back breaking...but the finished quilt was totally worth it. 

Every little bit is quilted..... 

I love the circles around the stars.....

Happy Quilting...

Leanne xo

Stunning Sabrina....

I have been quilting up a storm... I'm really happy with how this is turning out. I have gone a bit feather crazy. It's been fun to do. It took a while to work out how I was going to quilt it but once I started the creative juices just kept on flowing...

This will have to wait a few days now. The boys are still on holidays and we have a few things planned. Close to home but time with my beautiful boys just the same.

Hope you are having fun whatever you are doing...

Happy quilting

Leanne xo

Meet Sabrina

This is Sabrina, my latest design.

Love the stained glass look here...

She just need a bit of custom quilting and she will be ready for class to start in Feb.

Happy Quilting

Leanne xo

Well, here we go !!!!

I have a HUGE line up for 2012.

I am teaching at 2 sewing shops. All About Sewing at Charmhaven and Southern Cross Needlework at East Maitland.

Here are the classes I will be doing......

All About Sewing

I have been teaching at All About Sewing for over 5 years. I will now be running my own classes on Thursdays.

Leanne's Sewing Group

 Come and join me to learn different patchwork, sewing and crocheting techniques with a different project being set each month ( all original designs by Leanne)

OR

if you prefer I can help you with a project of your choice.

It's a great social, friendly atmosphere. Come and meet like minded people or bring your friends with you.

The lesson will run every Thursday 9.30am-2pm at a cost of $25

Booking is essential as places are limited.

Please contact me on mtvincentquilts@yahoo.com or call All About Sewing (02)43932200

Block of the Month

From Friday May 18 I will be running and Improvised Piecing Block of the Month.
(It is an original design by Leanne)

 Details will be available Feb 29 (sample & requirements)

The BOM runs for 7 months (lessons). The lesson will run 9.30am-2pm at a cost of $25

Booking is essential as places are limited.

Please contact me on mtvincentquilts@yahoo.com or call All About Sewing (02)43932200

Machine Quilting Techniques

Learn machine quilting on you domestic sewing machine. Walking foot and free motion techniques.

Dates are to be advised.

Southern Cross Needlework

Sabrina (Star Sampler) Block of the Month

An original design by Leanne of Mount Vincent Quilts

Come and join me in the lovely Hunter Valley to make this beautiful sampler.

It consists of 13 Irish Chain blocks, 6 different Star blocks and Pieced borders.

For details please contact Rhonda at Southern Cross Needlework (02)49366600 or email me at mtvincentquilts@yahoo.com

Foundation Piecing- New York Beauty Quilt
An original design by Leanne of Mount Vincent Quilts

Learn the technique of Foundation Piecing with this fun and funky little quilt. Techniques include paper foundation piecing and using templates to create your own New York Beauty quilt.

 For details please contact Rhonda at Southern Cross Needlework (02)49366600 or email me at mtvincentquilts@yahoo.com 

Basic Sewing

I have been a dressmaker for approx 20 yrs. I will be teaching  Basic Sewing techniques, pattern reading, machine maintenance and know your machine.

Each month we will have a different project/garment to show different techniques.

 For details please contact Rhonda at Southern Cross Needlework (02)49366600 or email me at mtvincentquilts@yahoo.com 

WOW!! what a fantastic year.....

I hope you can come and join me in all the activity and get those creative juices flowing....

Leanne xo

Happy New Year- 2012

From our Family to Yours

may all your dreams come true in 2012

Happy New Year

The Harvey Family xo

Little Bunny Ears....

I have been sewing like crazy to get this quilt done for a magazine deadline. It's confidential but I can show you the offcuts...

Lots of little Ruby bunny ears..... there is more where they came from

Happy Quilting

Leanne xo



A family Christmas....

What a fabulous 5 days we have just spent with family.

We 5 headed to Collaroy to my Sister, Monique's, place for Christmas. There were cousins galore.

5 Boys waiting patiently for presents....

Ethan....

Oscar....

Archer....

Mum and Monique were surprised with a quilt each from me. Neither of them knew about it so it was fun to see them so excited when they unwrapped them.

Mum very excited about her new quilt.....

Monique LOVES her quilt soooo much....



All the boys were so excited. There was wrapping paper flying everywhere.

We had 29 for Christmas lunch. Monique and I were chef's extraordinaire.

 The lamb and pork were in the oven early, Elise & Ben cooked the ham and Ben & Chris brought the turkey. Vegetables were bountiful. Roasted potatoes, sweet potato, pumpkin, greens& carrots, all the homemade gravies and condiments. Then to top it all off I made the best pudding I have ever made. Teamed with ice-cream, custard, whipped cream or all of the above.

Our HUGE Christmas table...

Yummmm....

Even yummier.......

Oh Wow... were we all stuffed full....

There was so much laughter that the neighbours must have thought we were crazy.

It's so nice to spend time with our family. As the kids are getting older they are getting on fantastically. They all spent the day playing together, scooting & playing totem tennis. They are all really good kids.

Well that was our crazy Christmas, I hope yours was just as much fun as ours.

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year...

Leanne xo

This Month....

 This month has been all go around here. Earthworks to tidy the place up and also for the pool. Although the pool has been a bit slow going due to the enormous amount of rain we have been having.

We went to a family reunion at my Aunty Judiths place. It was great to see all my Uncles & Aunties. Some of my cousins were there too. We promised to stay in contact from now on....

Uncle Brian in his train shed 

Oscar in Uncle Brians train shed. I used to come to the train shed when I was just a child. It is so much fun driving the model trains through the tiny towns....

 Archer playing trains too....

Time with our oldest friends. All the kids get on so great. We hadn't seen them for so long. Catching up is always full of laughing and doing crazy stuff. The "Dads" rigged up the dodgiest flying fox/zip line and sent the kids flying down it. Just call me when someone needs a ride to the hospital.... They had a ball...

My middle boy Oscar has just finished year 6 and is heading off to High School next year. When did THAT happen!!!!

Just before they finished up the Year 6 boys entered the Hunter / Newcastle Engineering Challenge. They had to design a mini catapult at school. On the day of the challenge they had to demonstrate the distance and accuracy of their mini catapult. In the overall point score the Mulbring Mangoes WON!!! We couldn't believe it. Out of 49 entries our little school with only 6 Year 6 boys won the day....

To celebrate the end of Year 6 their teacher organised to play laser tag. What a fantastic time they had. Look how grown up they all are.....

The only thing left was Presentation Day at school.

Oscar was presented with DUX of the school. That is the award of all awards. Boy are we very proud parents!!!!!

Congratulations Oscar!!

Amongst all the socialising I have also had to get the last of this years customer quilts out the door before xmas.

This is quite a big quilt. It was made by Lee for her son's 50th birthday. I custom quilted it. In the setting triangles I free- motioned a swag of gum leaves and the rest of the blocks were stippled. each border had a different continuous pattern in it.

Lee really loved it.... 



 This cute little guy is the last thing I need to finish before Xmas. It is for my nephew Remi. He absolutely love pirates. I am making it into a cushion for his room...

Now you can see why I've been slack with my blog. This time of year is just nuts. It's fun catching up with everyone and watching my kids achieve well at school. The Xmas break will be nice to relax for  a few days with the family....

Happy Quilting

Leanne xo



Crazy Busy....

It's all go around here at the moment. Paul has been preping the yard for our new pool, other earthworks to tidy the place up have been underway and then the rain arrived. OH what a mess. We are lucky that it dries out pretty quick.

On the sewing front it's been a bit slow this week. I have had a virus that causes extreme vertigo. I felt so dizzy, and I couldn't be upright for too long. It was horrible. It's getting better each day.

Before I got sick I had been working on samples for next years workshops that I am doing at the shop.

Here's a little taste of what I'll be doing.

These 2 blocks are part of an improv wonky sampler that I'm designing.



There is also a couple of quilts in the works for magazines that I would love to show you but unfortunatley you'll have to wait til they are published.

I should be back at the long arm tomorrow getting the last of the customer quilts out the door well before Chrissy.

I'm linking up at Freshly Pieced for Wip Wednesday...

Happy Quilting

Leanne xo

She Loved the Quilt...

Yesterday was my niece, Charlottes, 16th birthday. I gave her the quilt I made for her and she was so excited. Apparently in the days leading up to her birthday she had mentioned to a few people that she was hoping for a quilt from her Aunty Leanne. You could say I made her wishes come true. She didn't even know I was making it!

Happy Birthday Char....

Love Aunty Leanne xo

Not much to talk about this week. I have just been getting stuff done. Above is the quilt for my Niece, it's quilted and just needs to be bound. I machine quilted it in a swirl pattern.

A close up of the quilting. This is a really fun and quick design to quilt. Of course it is easy for me quilting on Dudley the longarm....

The back of the quilt. It really shows up the swirl quilting. Purple is my Nieces favoutite colour, so this wideback was perfect for her.

This is a little something for my Mum for Xmas. It is made from Loulouthi by Anna Maria Horner. My Sister sent a bundle home to me so I could make this for Mum. It is actually already together but I haven't taken a photo yet. More of this to come soon....

I am linked up with WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced... go check it out...

Keepin' on Quiltin'

Leanne xo

Wot up! Wednesday......

I have been so slack with my blog. Sorry if you have been checking in to find the same old thing.

I have been really busy. So busy, in fact, that I have only had time to get on the computer to check & send emails.

I have been crazily machine quilting, writing patterns, doing samples, making a birthday quilt for my niece and setting my calender for classes/workshops next year.  Not to mention the start of Xmas shopping!!

Below is some photos of what I have been up to....

Jan's yummy little quilt that I machine quilted with the giant paisley....

Giant Paisley...

This bundle is going into a quilt for a magazine.....

A birthday quilt for my niece's 16th .... Quilt top done, now I have to quilt it...

Better get back to it. I am linking up over at Freshly Pieced for WIP Wednesday...

Happy Quilting

Leanne xo