All the way from Melbourne

Today I received a package from Australia. It came from my friend Celia. We have been exchanging Fw blocks and today I got the most wonderful 12 blocks

The blocks look awesome!!!

Celia has used some wonderful fabrics. I bet she has a big stash of civil war reproductions. My quilt will certainly benefit from it. I'm thrilled.

These are some goodies she also sent me. I love the little string bag. Just adorable. The buttons are fantastic and the quilt labels,too. Thank you so much Celia.

More FW fun...

This week end I've made some more FW blocks. It's not much for a whole two days but I had a lot of fun doing them

I've won!!!

Last week I entered one of Jolly Jabber's giveaways.

 As you know Jolly Jabber is the Fat Quarter Shop blog. You had to guess the name of a line of fabric following some clues. I guessed right and... I won!!! YEAH! I'm so happy. Look at the wonderful fat quarter bundle I'm going to receive.

It's the wonderful Classroom Alice Putnam. Thank you Codi, and thank you Fat Quarter Shop!

WIP Wednesday

I can't believe a week has passed. It sure seems like yesterday that I made a WIP post.
This week I've decided to show you my Farmer Wife blocks. I've made more or less 60 which means I still have many to do. Nevertheless here it goes

Last week I began some civil war blocks. They are small but wonderful to make, I'm only beggining

Last but not least my DWR quilt is going slowly but steadily. I've got four rings and a couple of arches ready

Don't forget to link up with the lovely Lee at Freshly Pieced and share your WIP with all of us.

FNSI - DWR and some new blocks

Last night I made more arches for my DWR quilt and sewed  another ring. I have four now

Here they are

I said in older posts that I wouldn't begin any other project until I finished this quilt. Well I should have kept my mouth shut.
I couldn't resist a glimpse on this wonderful book  " Civil War Legacies  by Carol Hopkins ". I don't have the book but I saw some of the projects in it and couldn't help myself. I love civil war blocks and fabric so... Here is what I did the rest of the night ( and A bit today,too).

WIP Wednesday- More DWRing

Since I've started my Double Wedding Ring quilt, I've tried not to start any other projects that would keep me off track. For that reason I don't have much to show you

I have sewed together three rings and I have a couple of arches ready to go. I'm going to make more this week-end.

Besides my DWR I've only made my swap blocks and some gifts, this is one of them...

I still have to quilt and bound it.
To see more projects just visit the lovely Lee at Freshly Pieced.

White or dark Sashing????

This week-end I made  Granny Square #20 . No more blocks, now to the sashing dilemma

As I don't have room for a design wall I use my bed or my floor as a substitute. today when I laid the blocks to decide the setting a huge doubt came to me... Should I go for the usual white sashing that most everybody has used or should I try something different, a dark sashing perhaps. What do you think my dear quilty friends? Please give me some advice.

One Flower Wednesdays

After a quite lone break from sewing hexies I'm back in business.

Today i'm liking up with the lovely Karen at a Journey of a Quilter and share my newest hexies.  I  really missed my hand sewing so this week I've made three flowers, I still have to make the stitchery in the centers but you won't mind me posting them even like that.

Will you vote for my quilt, please?

Hi, I've entered another Quilting Gallery weekly quilt contest. This week the theme is  Flower Garden Quilts and I've entered  my " Sweet Summer Cottage" in the contest.  I would be grateful If you could vote for my quilt, dear friends. Just go HERE.

If you haven't seen the quilt yet, here it is. Thank you so much my quilty friends.

Hugs,

Teresa

                               

                                             

Pay it Foward from Cheryll

In the end of last year I entered my first Pay it forward. I have three recipients and I'm going to receive handmade goodies from other three quilters until the end of 2012. When? It's a surprise!
One of the surprises just happened this week. Last Wednesday the mail man bright me a fat envelope from Australia. It was from my dear friend Cheryll. It was my first Pay it Forward gift!!!

       She also sent me a sweet little card

 My hand made gift was a wonderful 12" block keeper. I love it!!!

 Look at the perfect blanket stitch around the letters, mine always seem crooked

I don't know if she guessed or if she read in one of my old post but Yellow is my favorite color, I absolutely adore the inside and my QBSA blocks are already being kept in there. I really needed one of these but I could never make one as beautiful as this.
THANK YOU SO MUCH CHERYLL!!!

Only one more to go

In between my full time job as a teacher and my household chores I still managed to make two Granny Squares. I've got 19 made and only one more to go before I start sashing them and sewing all together. Yeah!!!

 I know it isn't much but believe me, I had to work very hard in order to get some free time at night and make these.

Design Wall Monday

Only one project to show today. I'm involved in a big project, the double Wedding Ring Quilt so I've decided not to begin any more quilts until I have this one in a more advanced stage. At the moment I'm only making my QBSA blocks and my FW blocks which I can't show you until my partner receives theirs.
In my design Wall  this week there is only this...

But there's is a lot more to see, just link up with Judy at Patchwork Times and you'll enjoy lots of wonderful projects.

I'm Still Here!!!

I haven't posted anything for quite a while but I'm still here. This week has been a busy one. So busy that I haven't been able to sneak into my sewing room as much as I would like to. so there isn't much to share with you today, just some small scrappy pieces that I've been doing to use all my small fabric pieces, since I'm on a very strict fabric diet.

  A small framed purse, very useful for coins.

  Another pincushion, I have to put in the filling and sew it.

 Some scrappy pot holders

And a boxy pouch made with the leftover squares from my Granny Squares.

My FNSI

Last night I made some more arches for my Double Wedding Ring quilt but I had to go a little further...

I'm mostly a self taught quilter, I've learnt a lot from the net, the blogs I visit and the books I buy and I didn't want to cut all my wonderful fabric into pieces to find out later that the Double Wedding Ring was a task I could not handle. I know this isn't the way most quilters work but I had to try making a whole ring. And so I did, I cut the melons , the centre and sewed everything very carefully, following the instructions throughly. Here it is, my first ring!

It doesn't seem much but it took me all night to get this done.

Spring 2012 - Bloggers Quilt Festival

Today is the first day of the bloggers Quilt Festival. Amy's Creative Side is hosting this Festival to give the opportunity to those who can't attend Quilt Market, to share their quilts.Link up and share your quilt,too.

MY ENTRY FOR THE BLOGGER'S SPRING 2012 QUILT FESTIVAL - SWEET SUMMER COTTAGE QUILT

Last Summer I began sewing hexies without knowing exactly what I was going to do. At first I though about doing the Vignette in Stitches Hexie quilt but then I found, from a friend blogger tip, a wonderful pattern al Quiltmania Magazine. It was called Aunt Sarah Quilt. I loved it. Of course I have to make some alterations (as usual), so Aunt Sarah turned out to be my Sweet Summer Cottage quilt.

The quilt top has about 540 hand sewn 1" hexagons. The border was sewn by machine.And the applique,too.

WIP Wednesday

Oh my !!! It's Wednesday again, time does fly.
Today I'm liking up with Lee at Freshly Pieced. She is hosting  another WIP Wednesday.


Completed projects:


A zippered pouch. It's going to be one of my PIF gifts, I still don't know who's going to receive it, it's a surprise

 It has two inside pockets to keep our women stuff

The Summer Breeze table runner top is finished. I just need to quilt and bind it.

Works in Progress:

I've made only one granny square this week, that means I sill have more three to do before  doing the sashing and sewing everything together.

New Projects:


I've started my Double Wedding Ring quilt last week. I've made a couple of arches but there's much work ahead

I hope to have more to show you next Wednesday, until then I wish everyone a great sewing week.