HAPPY NEW YEAR

I wish to all my readers and friends a very happy new year. WELCOME 2012

Love, love, love to all of you!!!!
Pink

Blocks, Blocks, Blocks

Hi friends,

after Christmas days I'll show you the blocks I have done during the last weeks. But first of all you need to give a look to the finished quilt top "Circle of Friends", done by members of the Civil War block of the week group in Flickr and sewed together, quilted and sent to Barbara Brackman by Becky Brown. You can read more about here and enjoy. My block is the right bottom corner one (Log Cabin).

Now to my blocks:

Civil War Block of the week

Block 51

Block 52

I'm working on the borders. Very soon I'll be ready to sew it together.

Quilt block swap Australia, 12" group, my block to Fiona:

 And Fiona's block to me. Another perfect one for my quilt.

Last pictures are from Quilt block swap Australia, 6" group, my blocks to Billy.

Wonderful goodies Billy sent to me with her blocks!!!

 And her lovely blocks.

Finished! Have a wonderful week. Hugs. Pink

MERRY CHRISTMAS

I wish a Merry Christmas to all my readers. Love for you and all your family members.

Pink.

Impressions

Sunset

I wish you a merry Christmas and all the best for next year.
Pink

November swap and Civil War Quilt

Hi friends,

today I got the new swap partners for December in the 6" group (this month I have two swaps) and the postman brought mail from the USA. Here are the lovely blocks Jen made for me. They are beautiful and go so well with my other blocks.

My Civil War block of the week is almost at his end, just two more Saturdays to go. Here are my last two blocks.

Very enjoyable blocks. Today I cut out all the pieces for the borders and for the last setting block. Tons of 1 1/2" and 2 7/8" blocks!!!

Have a good and creative week. Hugs. Pink

Flea market

Hi friends,

first Sunday in Dezember and it is flea market again!!! Here are the little treasures I found today.

One more bowl, this time a very tiny one, just 4". One lighter for our collection, about 1 1/2". And finally two antique wooden whirligigs, just lovely.

Happy Sunday!!!. Pink

Civil War BOW and Blogger's BOM

Hi readers,

yesterday was BOM and BOW day!!! The new block for the Blogger's BOM was published here and this is my version:

And here the first three blocks together:

I really love how they look!!!!

Next the new weeks block for the Civil War BOW:

Block 48, can you believe it?? Here you can see a possible layout. I took pictures of all my 4 block sets, so i could move them around without loosing the blocks I already decided to have together and that I love as they are. Crazy?? 

I still need three more neutral blocks and probably will move some little block around. 

This afternoon we participate to the 110th anniversary of the lighthouse. isn't it beautiful?

Hugs. Pink

Quilt Block Swap Australia and other stuff

Hi friends,
finally I managed to chatch up with my Swaps. First for the 6" group:

Little baskets for Lynette

Lynette's lovely blocks to me

Batik Log Cabins for Jen

For the 12" group I made the block for my November partner Carmen.

And this is Block 47 for the Civil War Block of the Week. Only 5 more to go....

And last but not least two new treasures from the flea market increasing our antique bowl collection:

Now I'm waiting for the new Saturday Civil War BOW coming out.
Have a nice week-end. Hugs.
Pink

New blocks

Hi friends,
Today was quilting group day, we welcomed two new lovely ladies, Ulla and Elke, they will be part of the group while they are on the island. It was fun to share our projects and ideas and have some great cake. Here the new blocks I made for the Civil War BOW.

Block 41 

Block 45

Block 46

Last week-end i finished the wall hanging for Jessicas's mum. Here some prictures. It is machine sewn and quilted.

I made the binding out of scraps from the blocks. I am very pleased with the final result. I hope she likes it!
Hugs. Pink

New house

Hi friends,
I posted some new pictures from the house. Have a look and enjoy!!

Hugs. Pink

New blocks

Hi dear friends!
Now that I have finished my DJ I'll have more  time to focus on other projects I started. Here are the latest blocks I sewed for the Civil War Block of the Week.

This is the October block for the Bloggers BOM...

This will be a wallhanging I am sewing for my son's mother in law as a Christmas present...I just add a border around it and machine quilt (first time for me!).

Blocks for my September partner in the 6" group in the Australian Block Swap.

Block for my October partner in the 12" group for the Australian Block Swap. All those blocks are on their way to Australia.

Lots of different blocks, fabrics, sizes but most important thing....LOT OF FUN!!!
Happy week. Hugs. Pink

BLOGGERS QUILT FESTIVAL

Hi friends!

It's Blogger Quilt Festival again and this time I finally finished my Dear Jane to enter!!:):)

Here the story: on a sunny Summer afternoon in 2009 I met with some quilting friends and one of them had the Dear Jane book. I had already seen this quilt and always thought it was crazy! We started looking at the book and no one was sewing that afternoon, we were to fascinated from all those beautiful little blocks. Fascinated and scared...Back home I started searching more informations about it...and looking, looking I decided to assume the challenge! Ordered the book and fabrics and started my DJ journey. And here is the final result!!!

Front

Back

Last stitch - binding

Some more informations about my Dear Jane:
Fabrics used: Mendhi from Free Spirit, Benartex, Makover,Liberty and scraps from my friend Susan. background fabric is shadow play from Maywood Studios.
Pieces: 169 squares with 3501 pieces of fabric
Sashing: 364 pieces of fabric
Cornerstones: 196 pieces of fabric
Little border squares: 284 pieces of fabric
Border triangles: 168 pieces of fabric
Border stripes: 10 pieces of fabric
Binding: 5 pieces of fabric
TOTAL PIECES OF FABRIC: 4528


Techniques: the blocks are machine pieced, appliquéed, paper pieced.
The entire quilt was hand quilted and assembled with the Quilt as you go method.


Quilt started 5th of August 2009
Quilt finished 20th of October 2011             


Have fun visiting all the entries for the Bloggers Quilt Festival here

Have a very nice week-end. Hugs. Pink