I just what has taken me away from blogging is my new found love of The Quilting Board. I have had so much fun commenting, posting and joining swaps. If you haven't tried it, you gotta! You find new friends, new ideas, links and resources and share information and knowledge.
Right now I am doing the October Doll Quilt Swap. I have a partner who I will create a doll quilt and send to her and she will create one and send to me. I have to figure out what I will be creating yet. In Sept, I the theme was Black n White with a splash of color. Here is the one I made for my partner.
Yep! I won a third place ribbon for it in our county fair!
The one below is the one I received! Kinda fits perfent in my sewing room!
The boomerang swap I'm doing is with 15 others across the states and the world! Really! I have a partner in Ireland, Austrialia and Canada! How cool is that. What we are doing is we each send a fat eighth to each member in our group. So we will receive 15 F8 in the mail and then we are to create a 12.5" block for that person using their fabric and our stash. I choose brown western style fabric that I have been collecting here
and there. I plan to add to my 15 blocks I receive back and make a new bed quilt for me! I will have to add to it but I still have plenty of fabric.
So far I have received 6 pieces from others and created two blocks so far. I will mail these back tomorrow.
The blue fabric was sent to me.
The BUG fabric was sent. I just love that fabric. This will be put in a
Project Linus Quilt.
I have a niece in Oregon that is expecting her first baby time 2! Yep it is twins girls.
So here are the two quilts I am working on for her!
I need more yellow to add the border to the pink/purple one.
This one the top is done. Both quilts are the same pattern and different fabric
except I am using fabric from the other quilt for the borders. That way the both have something the same!
Both quilts have this fuzzy wuzzy bear in the center!
Here is another little mini I created from a pattern in American Patchwork & Quilting Magazine.
I got a second place ribbon in the fair!
I just love this little ditty!
Here are a couple of other things I won ribbons for.
Our Golden Comets hens lay some pretty brown eggs. Notice the basket liner??? yep it's quilted!
Here is a picture I took last winter one night! The glass cracked on the way to the fair!
I will put these pieces together with more and hopefully make a full quilt .... One day!
Here is a baby boy quilt I made for my boss's new son! They are
big motorcycle people! I have it on good word that he loves his new quilt!
Here is what I call "Watermelon Squared"
It is a Bento Box pattern I discovered on the Quilting Board!
I bought some of the fabrics in Atlanta at the Quilt Expo with my Sister!
Well that's about it for now! Feels great to be back blogging!
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My goodness, you have been really busy. Wonderful projects!
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