My last 6 inch block swap

Here are the lovely blocks I received from Janet for the July swap in the 6 inch swap group.

here is a reminder of what I sent to Janet 

I have decided to leave the 6 inch swap group as I wasn't having as much fun making the smaller blocks  ;-(

I would like to thank all my previous partners for sending such lovely blocks and a special thank you to SueB for being such a great Swap Co-Ordinator.

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day. 

Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-) 

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

6 inch blocks sent and received

I have received two beautiful blocks from Sharon for the 6" swap for April

here are the blocks I have sent Sharon

 

they are winging their way over to USA as you read this ;-)

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day. 

Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-) 

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Block from Leena ;-)

The lovely Leena has sent me these two beautiful blocks for the 6" swap Group

I am loving these gorgeous little blocks, they are going to look so good all together.

Here is what I sent to Leena

I hope they have arrived by now  - the heavy rains around some of the country has impacted on mail deliveries ;-(

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day. 

Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-) 

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Violets, dashes and Fat Quarters received

Hi everyone

the postie has been kind to me this week ;-)

Goodies have been received from swap partners.

6" blocks from Jen

12" blocks from Annie for Block Swap Adventure - I love the splash of red embroidery in the centre ;-)

12" block from Lynda for Quilt Block Swap Australia - photo does not do justice - there are flecks of red in the black material

Fat Quarter swap from Barb - spots and/or stripes

Fat Quarter Swap from Vanessa - spots and/or stripes

Barb & Vanessa, your fat quarters are in the mail ;-)

Thank you ladies, I am really enjoying swapping with you all ;-)

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day. 

Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-) 

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

FNSI - show and tell

It was FNSI and boy, did I have some fun ;-)

I actually started in the afternoon, and cut and sewed and pressed and came out of my room very pleased with my efforts.

Completed items:

my first 6" blocks for the 6 inch swap group - tease photo follows:

block for Sue (no blog) for BSA - tease photo follows:

Sue's block has taken a bit to get started - I was really stumped on fabric for a little while.  But once I decided on fabric, it was full steam ahead ........ the actual sewing took me most of the afternoon - lots of HSTs (28 to be exact!) and I am very pleased with the result - you will have to wait until Sue sees it first  ;-)

block for Tarnyia for QBSA - tease photo follows:

I have always wanted to try this pattern, but you will have to wait until Tarnyia sees it first  :-)

I also made up a test block I was thinking about requesting for future 6" swaps - 6" violet block (same as a previous Block Lotto block) with white background, yellow centre, bright fabric for petals.

I figure if I am going to request it,

I should make sure it can be made easily ;-)

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day. 

Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-) 

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

African Violets for Block Lotto

I haven't done much sewing this last week - well not much I can show on my blog just yet ;-)

What I have done, is make up some blocks for Block Lotto

The block for August is African Violets