ATC Friday

Some more of the ATCs I've worked on in Round Robin style - these two sets are ones where I've added the last thing. In this case, some Japanese lanterns; 

with these cards, I just added the words Never More (or perhaps it's only one word!) - they didn't need much else!

Trunk Show Tuesday

This one was a gift for a friend & co-worker (at the time); I haven't actually seen her in quite a few years, so I hope the quilt is still going strong. It's a good pattern - I think it came from Australian P&Q magazine originally, though I no longer have it. It would be easy enough to work out, though, if I wanted to do it again. Maybe for a PL quilt.

A couple more cushions

Didn't have a lot of time today, as we were down in Brighton, celebrating Sarah's birthday (it's on Tuesday) - but I did cover two more cushions when we got back - only about 6 more to go. Not that they take very long, but it's working up the energy to start, sometimes.  Anyway, maybe next weekend there will be some actual sewing to show. Don't hold your breath!

ATC Friday

Here are two quite different finished cards; on both of these I was the middle player. To these, I added the square picture of a flower; 

On these cards, I added the transparent decal of a bird.

Trunk Show Tuesday

This is one I still have somewhere - I don't have it hanging up at the moment. Like most of my older quilts, the quilting is fairly minimal, so it annoys me to see... Maybe someday I will requilt this one like I did the old rail fence one - it's not that big and would be easy enough to do on my domestic. The worst part is of course picking out the old quilting...

A (very) little sewing

Finally got around to doing some sewing, but it's only to re-cover some cushions for my classroom's book corner. The ones in the corner were a little worse for wear. Funny enough, at least two of them were ones I made when Alex was in that classroom in Year 2, so I know those ones haven't been refreshed in 6 or 7 years!

There are about five more cushions still at school, so I'll probably do some more next weekend. 

PAT Swap Returns, part two

These are the other cards I got in the recent Pick-a-Theme Swap which I showed some from last week. My theme for this group - you may have worked this out - was trees.

A nice selection of tree cards!

Cross Stitch Update

A very tiny bit of progress this week - but it's better than nothing. Been very tired in the evening so I haven't done much stitching - better that than unpicking lots of wrong stuff!  Now that I'm back in the habit of working full time again, perhaps next week will show better progress. Though I really need to work on some Hallowe'en stuff, I think, so perhaps I should give this a rest.

Trunk Show Tuesday

This is a quilt I made for my friend Kristen - I think it was a belated 30th birthday present. Or something. 

It's all in batiky type fabrics and was a square in a square, with rail-fence blocks as the inner square. Not sure how big it was - huge!

PAT Swap Returns

I showed pictures of the cards that I made for this swap (each player picks a theme) - these are the cards that other players made for me - the theme I chose for these playing cards was Birds. Obviously. I have nearly a full deck now - only a few more gaps to fill in. Once it's full, I'll show the deck in its entirety!

Cross Stitch Update

Actually did some work this week on my cross stitch piece - finished the Mad Hatter and have moved down to the bottom half of the piece. Top is done except for the face of the White Rabbit, which I'll go back and do at the end. Progress is being made, hoorah!  Now if I could just get a little sewing done, too...

Trunk Show Tuesday

Continuing the virtual trunk show with a rather bad set of photos to show this particular quilt, which I made for my stepmom, back in 2001. I notice now that the colour placement is a bit odd, but those were early days for my quilts, and I probably wasn't as fussy. Or perhaps just not as observant...

Elvis has left...the door open

This is one of the pieces of fabric (well, a small part of it) which my friend Sharon sent me in the US, for use in Project Linus quilts (or, in this case, not). The bulk of the fabric, I promise, will get used for charitable purposes, but my daughter, who is leaving to go to university next weekend, needed a doorstop to take with her, and this seemed to fit the bit very well. 

A quick little bag shape, fill it with a bag of rice or dried beans and hey presto...

Doorstop!

My other exciting sewing for today was to mend the hole in this t-shirt of Alex's.  "What hole?" you may say. "I can't see any hole." To which I can only respond, "Precisely."

ALQS10 - my contribution

Here's the slightly odd little piece I made for this swap myself. I used some squares of linen I bought (I think) in a charm pack at the V&A shop, though I might be misremembering that. It's gone off to a new home with my friend Julie, who organises the Cotton Robin round robin I've been blogging recently. It's a small (quilting) world.

ATC Friday

A few more round robins where I was the last person to add something. These found poetry cards, I just love - all I did was echo some of the words from them in funky letters. I just think they are so cute. I kept the left hand one ("It's off.")

These were fun as well. I just happened to have some skulls printed on transparency (as you do), so they were perfect additions. Along with the word skull. You probably have noticed that I really like adding words to cards. It just works, I think. When in doubt, it's words for me.

Transit of Mercury (not my work)

So, here's the quilt I received myself in the recent swap which I organised (Another Little Quilt Swap 10). It was made by the lovely Andrea in Australia, who has played in a number of rounds of the swap, and I'm very happy with it.  Tomorrow, I'll dig out a photo of the quilt which I made for the swap...