FNSI - next one Friday, 18th November 2011

The next Friday Night Sew-in is on Friday, 18th November.

How about you? Participation is as easy as one-two-three:
1. Commit. More Info HERE  and post your intention on your blog.
2. Sew. On Friday night, get your house and family settled, get comfortable and work on projects of your choice.
3. Share. Sometime on Saturday, publish a post about what you worked on (and share photos in the FNSI Flickr group)

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.

squishies in the mail

I have been attempting to make a start on my Christmas Cards just recently) and sewing has taken a back seat for a bit ;-)

My Block Lotto blocks are in the mail - Australia to USA takes about 10 days.

My Craft Mad Sewing swap is in the mail - hopefully will be there in a few days.

My Fat Quarters for Fat Quarter Swap is in the mail - hopefully will be there tomorrow ;-)

I will be finishing off my QBSA & BSA swap blocks tomorrow for FNSI

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 Lotto Blocks for November

The block for Block Lotto for November is a great scrap buster ;-)

We are to make 12 inch Scrappy Trips blocks.

Bonnie Hunter's pattern can be found on her Quiltville site here:  http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2005/06/scrappy-trips-around-world.html

The Block Lotto slant is that there must be ONE VERY DARK fabric (think black or another color that is so dark that it might read as black from across the room). Place the dark fabric so that it forms the diagonal that goes from corner to corner.

Other Fabrics - all other fabrics in the block are your choice. This is a great time to use up the last bit of a favorite fabric or to use some of those "what was I thinking" ugly fabrics in your stash. Mix it up and AVOID making monochrome blocks (with 4-6 strips of fabrics that are different values of the same color--in my experience, these are the blocks that will stick out in the finished quilt and be the block that is NOT like the others.

If you make multiple blocks, you can repeat fabrics, just DON'T USE THE SAME SIX fabrics in multiple blocks.

I wansn't too sure about this one, but I figured

"Sophie doesn't steer you wrong" ;-)

So I went about selecting my fabrics and this is what I came up with ;-)

This was certainly an exercise that showed up inaccurate cutting - some of the strips I used were leftover pre-cut jelly roll strips ;-(

Here are my 5 blocks made so far

Thank you, Sophie, once again you have made a wonderful block selection.

Rainbow Charm swap - Now taking Members

UPDATED:   Now taking members - see HERE

Sharon has come up with a wonderful idea for a swap - a rainbow charm swap - and is searching for expressions of interest for participants.

I have taken a snippet from Sharon's blog


Are you interested?

I am "toying" with the idea of hosting a Rainbow Charm Square Swap for Australian and New Zealand residents so this is my official call for your "Expression of Interest"

If you are interested kindly leave me a message at the bottom of this post and please, if you are a "no-reply blogger" I need a way to contact you so I suggest that you change your setting to take part.

At this stage there will be no commitment, I just want to know if it is worth going forward the next step.

As a basic outline it would run as follows:-

This swap will be based on the color wheel.

1 yard of fabric cuts up to 56 charm squares so that would be an ideal number of participants.

Each participant will purchase two different fabrics-- one yard each. They will then cut those into 5" square charms and send them to me.

Quilt-shop-quality fabric only please


Please visit Sharon's post HERE for more detailed information.

I would love to make a Rainbow quilt - just like this one ;-)

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.

Blocks have been received - I hope ;-)

I have been waiting to hear if these blocks have arrived safely and shall assume they have.

I hope the recipients are happy with what I have made for them.

Jodi for Block Swap Adventure

For Nolene (QBSA)

I squealed for joy when I saw Nolene's preferences.

Regular readers will remember I made a quilt with this very same colour/block combination

I can't wait to see what Nolene makes with her blocks.



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.