FNwF - show and tell

FNwF came around quickly, once again, but this time I was prepared :)

The combination of a sick Mr Fixit (yes again :(, he hasn't had a very good run this year) which left me to my own devices, and my desire to make a quilt for a friend who has been diagnosed with Acute Myloid Leukemia saw me able to spend time in my sewing room.

I won these coin stacks blocks whilst participating in Block Lotto in 2011 and whilst the flimsy has been completed for some time, I had lost the motivation to actually finish the quilt.  Dianne loves colours, and it has just kind of happened that everyone has been posting rainbows on her facebook page, by way of inspiration; so I thought it was perfect that Dianne be the recipient of this quilt.


marked up ready for quilting with painter's tape


Diagonal quilting finished


binding rolled over and clipped


my messy sewing room - LOL - time for clean-up when this UFO is finished!

This will be Lifetime Quilt #13

I also made Dianne a journal cover.




This is completely reversible: so that when Dianne's treatment is finished, she will be able to turn it around and have the cameras showing on the outside, and use it for her photography :)

Dianne is such an amazing woman, I truly believe she will beat this terrible disease.

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day - any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

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

CraftMad Family Quilt block swap - UPDATED

I realised I hadn't posted piccies of my most recent swaps with my CraftMad Family Quilt.

this is the block that took forever to arrive from UK - mailed on 23/3/15 and eventually arrived 10/6/15 such an unusually long time for mail from UK - usually it is 5 working days

This is the block I made for Beth, for May

This is the block I made for Wendy, for June

This is the block I made for Mrs A, for July

This is the block I received from Mrs A for June

received from Merry, for July

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day - any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

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

Fat Quarter Swap Update - June

Here are pics of what I have sent and received for June 2015

sent to Sharon for her Birthday

received from HelenW

sent to HelenW

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

CHERISH Do Good Stitches - June Block

after my success with May's block, I got sidetracked in June and was a bit late sending off my June block.

This block was super easy to make, and ended up being a huge 21"
I am really looking forward to seeing the finished quilt with this one :)

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day - any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

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

Missing Christmas Blocks ...........

not once, but twice!!!!  What on earth is happening with the postal service lately?

You may remember back in May, I sent two blocks to my partner, Traci in USA.

here are the tease photos :)

well, normally when they arrive, I post colour pics ........... well, they have not arrived, but the empty envelope has :(

so here are the colour pics

I felt so badly that Traci's last swap with Christmas Block Swap was not a successful one, that I made two replacement blocks

and they have gone missing too!  so very frustrating!

next up is a block for JanF - a new member of our Christmas swap group - since it was very close to the start of the month when she joined, I offered to swap with her first (one of the benefits of being the Swap Co-Ordinator I guess :) )  here is my colour reveal

I had a block take forever to get to Australia from UK - it was posted on 23/3/15 and got to me on 10/6/15 such an unusually long time for mail from UK - usually it is 5 working days

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day - any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

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