Happy Halloween!

Hope everyone has a great day today!



This wonderful spooky quilt was made for me by the amazingly talented upstatelisa last year in a swap. I'm so glad we got matched up, she has become a good friend.

Don't eat too much...

DQS7 Received!

I bet you were all wondering if I received a doll quilt in the Flickr Doll Quilt Swap.

I did!



It had a long voyage to make, but it arrived to its new loving home last week.



This beautiful quilt was made by Ralitza (Domoshar) completely by hand!



All hand stitched, hand quilted, embroidered!



Check out the story about it here.



Yippeee! I love my new pink and orange quilt!

Dear Jane, I have not forgotten you...

I'm just really bad at taking photos when I finish your blocks.

Here's the latest:

B-2 Sweet Tater Pie (04/18/09)


B-12 Starflower (03/25/09)


H-6 Pie Sale (04/25/09)


B-3 Mirror Image (04/19/09)


C-11 Soldiers and Sailors Monument (04/19/09)


I'm hoping to finish up some other projects so that I can work on this more faithfully. And I still want to learn to knit socks too. So I have one swap quilt to make for Lisa, and a baby quilt to make for a coworker (baby due in June) and then I'll have some more time for this GIANT project. I'm not sure if I mentioned it here before, but my goal is to have the Dear Jane done for my quilt guild's show next May 2010. Here's hoping!

And I haven't forgotten about the tutorial for labels, I'm just waiting to finish something so I can take photos while I work.

Doll Quilt Received!!!

Yippee! I got my doll quilt from Terrie! I love it so much! The colours are great! The fabrics are great! the quilting!

Check it out for yourself







I love, love, love the rainbow thread she used. I need some like this!! And check out those leaves!

Thanks again Terrie! Love it!

DQS6 Done!

I finished my quiltie for the Doll Quilt Swap 6. Yippee! And I made myself a twin!



I really like these ones. I hope my person likes the brightness of them. I think I might bring mine to work to brighten up my cubicle!

I used a block from the Everyday Best quilt in Piece O' Cake Designs' Quilts with a Spin. It's a beautiful book. The cover photos on Amazon don't do it justice at all.



I decided to machine quilt with rainbow thread as well as hand quilt with a light yellow and a coral embroidery floss . I use three strands of DMC floss for the quilting. I really want to try the #8 DMC perle cotton but the needlework shop in Ottawa closed a few weeks ago. Very sad. I will have to find a source online.



And a peek a the label. Haha bet you thought it would have the recipient's name on it eh? Nope I did put their name on my label, so years from now I'll remember who I made it for. If there is any interest, I was thinking of doing a tutorial on how I do my labels. Let me know if this is something you'd like to see.

I hope everyone else is having fun working on their quilt!

DQS6

I'm on holidays until next Tuesday (the 14th) and my big plans include fabric, thread, sewing machine....etc.

I've almost finished my quilt for my Guild's challenge. I'm hesitant to show a picture yet cause it's a secret. The votes are done without people knowing who made what.

And I've been working on my Doll Quilt for DQS6. Finally!

I photocopied the paper-piecing pattern back on March 9th, and just yesterday started working on it. Loving the results so far. Using lots of fun scraps. And as (almost) always, making one to keep for me too.

Here's are my sneeky peekies.





I also plan to work on my Dear Jane. And a mini quilt for Lisa for a swap we are doing.

October Swap Round-Up

I have just received my the last quilt to finish up October swaps.

Swap Till You Drop October ~ Theme: Halloween
Sent to upstatelisa



Received from upstatelisa



6"-12" mini quilt trading swap October ~ Theme: Out of the Box (nothing square or rectangle shaped)
Sent to WendyWTN



Received from WendyWTN



The month of October was really fun to work on. Since then, as you know I've completed my quiltie for Doll Quilt Swap. I will post more about that when I do the Sent ~ Received roundup.

For November I am only in the Swap Till You Drop 2 colour swap. I have already received mine from tlhcrawford very fun blue and white 30's prints, but she hasn't received mine yet. When she does I'll write more about it.

I've also joined the Mini Quilt in A Bag swap. What you do is fill a ziploc with fabrics and trims and send it to your partner. They take what you've sent them, and maybe add a bit, and make you a little quilt using your fabrics and send you the finished product. The good news is the deadline is January 26th, which won't be hard to remember because it's year 1 wedding anniversary. And it means I can get Christmas gifts done first. It will be fun to see what Kathleen does with this...



Till next time. I haven't forgot about my Christmas gift post, I'm waiting till I have more to show.

Swap-o-Rama

I've started joining swaps on Flickr. It all started when I noticed what was going on at the Doll Quilt Swap. I had to get involved. But the sign up had already closed for DQS4 so I waited patiently for DQS5 and signed up right away.

In the mean time I joined two more groups. Swap Till You Drop and 6"-12" mini quilt trading swap. After planning my designs and jumping in with so much enthusiasm, I think I may be hooked.

Swap Till You Drop September theme: Hearts
This is the quilt I made for Swap Till You Drop for quiltinkimmie.



And this is the lovely I received! Very pretty. The flower blocks were fussy cut from the same fabric. And I love the striped binding.



Then I got smart and realized how sad it is to send away little quilt babies, so for the 6"-12" mini quilt trading swap I decided to make twins. This way I could send away my quilt baby without being sad that I would never see it again.

6"-12" mini quilt trading swap September theme: Quilter's Choice
This is the quilt I made for sew-do-i



And this is the rainbow wonder I received from her. I love flying geese blocks and colour. Couldn’t be more perfect.



I’ve signed up for October in both of these groups. Theme is 'Halloween' for Swap Till You Drop and 'Out-of-the-box' for 6"-12" mini quilt trading swap. I have ideas for both of these but haven’t started cutting yet. I also need to make two of each so I can keep up this twin thing. I may regret this decision.

Oh and the best news is the swap partners are announced for DQS5, a bit of technical difficulties with my first match up, but the swap mama is getting it worked out.

Happy Thanksgiving fellow Canadians!

My next post will be about the many Christmas gifts I am making.
Take care, see you soon!