One Flower Wednesday

My little flower garden is slowly growing, this week I've made more three hexie flowers.

June's Birdie Stiches is done!!!

Hettie " Cathy" Bear is Born

As you problably read in one of my older post, I received a lots of gifts from my Zippy Purse Swap partner Toni from Red Boot Quilt Co. One of those gifts was a Basil and Hettie Bear pattern. My daughter immediately fell in love with Hettie and asked me if I could make her one.
I had never done a doll or something similar before so I was a bit scared with the final result but...No pain no gain. I did it and I can't say I'm not satitfied with the result. My daughet loved it to and now she'e got a new name : Hettie Cathy Bear.
  

In the living room watching TV!

Her favorite place: My dauther's bed!

One (or more) Flower Wednesday

I think I've been bitten by the Hexie Bug. I'm loving doing hexies, so I decided to join One Flower Wednesday. Here are my 3 hexies for today.

Anorina's June block has arrrived

Today I received my partner's June block. It came from Anorina. The fabrics are wonderful, the star is beautiful.I just love it!

She also sent me a beautiful card with Australian flowers

Show and Tell Monday...

No Domingo fiz mais um alfineteiro para juntar à colecção.
   This Sunday  I made a new pincushion to add to my collection.

FNSI- Friday Night Stitch in

On Thursday I chose the fabrics and cut the templates. Yes...I've been bitten by the HEXIE BUG!!!
After my first hexie experience I couldn't wait to do some more and so last night I made a couple of them. I think I'm getting another addiction.

My garden is just begining . Maybe I'll try the Vignette Hexagon quilt....Who knows.

It's FNSI!!!Get ready

It's time for another FNSI. Get all  your stuff ready and don't miss a night of fun sewing. I think I know what I'll be making...

I'm in Heaven!!!

Today was a very special one. I'm really a lucky girl. The postman brought me two packages.

The first one came from Leona at Leona's Quilting Adventure. I won a giveaway a little while ago and today I received my prize: A set of the most beautiful Aurifil threads. Not only that but Leona also added a gorgeous fat quarter. Thank you Leona you're most generous.

The Aurifil color catalogue will be very useful when I order more of this thread.

Next, the second package. It was a big one and came from Toni at Red Boot Quilt Company,

she was my partner at the Zippy purse swap and she sent me the most fabulous gifts:

First a beautiful applique purse              

Which had a surprise: A soap that  smell so good that I think I'm going to have a bath with it right away.

But you haven't seen nothing yet. Inside an envelope was a very cute card with a message from Toni

She also sent me a pattern of some of her fabulous bears : Basil and Hettie ( my daughter has already chosen the fabrics to make Hettie next week-end).

Being a chocolate lover, I got water in my mouth when I saw the chocolate box she sent me. Yummy!!!

By now you must think : That's all folks!! WRONG

Look at the most magnificent fabrics and buttons Toni included in the pakage.

Don't you think I'm the luckiest girl on the planet?

THANK YOU VERY MUCH TONI!!!

Dia De Portugal- National Day

Hoje é dia de Portugal e das comunidades portuguesas espalhadas por esse mundo fora. Em menos de um ano já "encontrei" duas quilters com raízes portuguesas mas que vivem bem longe; nos Estados Unidos e na Austrália. A todos os que estão longe mando um grande abraço.


Today is Portugal's National Day. It's also the  day to remenber all the portuguese that live abroad all over the world.
I've been a blogger for less than a year and in the mean time I "found" two quilters that have portuguese roots. To all the portuguese far away I sent a big hug!

Sendo feriado pude  escapar-me para o meu cantinho da costura e fiz duas carteirinhas para colocar todos aqueles cartões que agora nos "oferecem " nas lojas. Fiz uma grande para mim  e uma pequenina para a minha filha, ela pediu uma pequenina que coubesse no bolso.

As it was a holiday i sneaked to my little sewing room and made a couple of card wallets ( they give you cards and coupons eveywhere). A big one for me and a little one for my daughter - she specially requested a small one.

I know, I know...there's a button missing but it will be soon sewn.

O que tenho feito esta semana- What I've been doing lately

Finalmente terminei o Lollypop quilt. UFA!!!

I finally finished my Lollypop Quilt!Uff...

Esta tarde decidi experimentar fazer um bloco que vi num tutorial no youtube. Chama-se bloco em 10 minutos e é realmente fácil mas faz um efeito extraordinário. Este foi só para treinar, o que eu pretendo é fazer um quilt usando um layer-cake e tecido branco para o centro.

This afternoon I tried to make a ten minute block. There's a great tutorial HERE. It's amazingly easy and the final effect is wonderful. This is only a trial block. I pretend to do a quilt top using my Giddy or Sugar Pop layer cakes.

Birdie Stiches BOM -May block finished...On June 1st

It was only today that I got the block done. My finger didn't allow me to sew for a while. But now its finished!!!

Santa's Sack

O meu saco de Natal para a troca em que vou participar já está pronto. Agora só faltam as prendinhas...mas essas vão ser surpresas e não as posso mostrar.

My Santa's Sack for the Santa's Sack Swap is ready. Now all I have to do it to fill it with lots of goodies but...as they are meant to be surprises I can't show them here.

I made a large dresden plate using Christmas fabrics

O saco pronto ainda sem as fitas para fechar

The sack without the ribbon to close it

Ready!

Giveaway at Stitching Cow

Lenna Green, at the Stitching Cow in having a great Giveaway, A kit to make the new Homespun quilt a long quilt.

Don't miss it. Here is the linK.

http://www.stitchingcow.com/patterns/173/Free+Block+of+the+Month+Quilt+Pattern

FNSI Report

Yesterday FSNI was dedicated to my lollypop quilt. I managed to free motion quilt all the crosses with a small meandering ( it's what I fell more comfortable in FMQ ).

                                                                    
This is one of the quilted crosses.Sorry for the poor quality of the photo. The photographer is everything but an expert.

I chose to do a criss cross  on the small light squares, I thought it would look nice and simple.

It was late and I was getting tired. I tried to quilt the borders but I gave it up...I know that when I try to work in such condition the results are never good. So... I went to bed. Maybe I'll finish it tomorrow.



          

FSNI is just a day away

Tomorrow we get "together" for anther FNSI. I'm going to try finishing the free motion quilting on my lollypop quilt. If there is any time for more I will surely tell on my Saturday post. See you tomorrow!!!

what I've been up to...

This past Sunday I had a close encounter with one of my sharp kitchen knives. I got a deep cut on my finger and had to use a king of strips that do the same thing as the usual stitches (which is great).

 In spite of that I couldn't do any sewing for a couple of days. Today I got some of the strips off and the wound is healing perfectly. I only have one strip now. So... This evening I was able to do a little stitching on my May birdie stitches BOM. Tomorrow Band-aid again!

Plan B Baby quilt is finished!

I've just finished the binding on the baby quilt I began only three days ago. Correction...Three evenings for I work in a school from 9.00 to 18.00. IT's not what I intended to to but it was what could be arranged in such short notice.


In this picture the colors are more close to reality, the other photos were taken at night and the light turns colors a little yellowish.

When the going gets tough Plan B gets going

A friend of my got pregnant sometime ago and I wanted to give her a baby quilt as a gift but...She got pre-eclampsia and she went to the hospital in a hurry for both mother and baby were in danger. So the two months I thought  i had to make the quilt just vanished! I needed a PLAN B. SO... I found a beautiful fake quilt panel and thats what I used to make a very quick quilt.

The quilt top is ready and quilted all I have to do now is the binding: I hope to finish it this week-end.

For the backing I found a light blue fabric with the cutest baby animals

A little chick

A cute little snail

 And a baby Hippo

I hope she likes it!

   

Going Hexie

I've been following the One flower Wednesday project and I decided to try some and make hexies of my own.
 I loved doing them and I think it is kind of addictive. Besides it's the perfect project to take everywhere, it's really portable. I think I know what I'm going to do next Summer holidays.