Paper Patchwork

I keep seeing all the wonderful Farmers Wife blocks out in blogland and flickr, and wanted to do a sampler myself. I decided that rather than use fabric though I would use paper, and select blocks from The Quilter's Block Bible by Celia Eddy. I chose to use the Two Scoops paper collection by Basic Grey, as I had a 6x6 inch paper pad with half the sheets intact, as well as lots of little scraps from it.

Here are my first two. They finish up at 3 inches square. It is fiddly, but fun.

20.10. 2011

I just really like that today's date is what it is, so thought I'd do a post of something I've made in the past, just because I want to see the date typed up like that.

Here is a tea cosy I made a while ago now, in use on my kitchen bench.

The tab for holding/hanging etc is made from the selvage of the hummingbird fabric. I like it :)

That's it.

The Sugar Bowl Challenge 69

Two cards in two days is not bad. I had already coloured this Sugar Nellie image, I just needed to use it for something.

Urban Prairie papers from Basic Grey, and a sketch from The Sugar Bowl challenge 69 (rotated and elongated) and it was done.

It's Magic

Yesterday afternoon I had some therapeutic colouring-in time, and ended up with this Christmas card, first of the year. I absolutely adore this image, from Sugar Nellie. He is just so cute.

One down, several to go. I'm not going to count.

Dudley is DONE

I have a finish, and I am very happy about it. Dudley is finally complete.

It took me ages to figure out how to sew the legs on so I was happy with them and couldn't see stitches, but I got there in the end, on my fourth attempt.

He is not perfect, but I really love him, and so does Martin.

A good thing, since it was him who requested I buy the pattern and make him one.

Blogger's BOM Quilt Along

I've decided to join in with the Bloggers Block of the Month quilt along, and since it is just one block per month I don't think it will really impact on my other works in progress.

Here is block 1, which is available here at A Quilting Life:

I have changed it from the instructions ever so slightly because I didn't want a join in the floral, but the finished look is the same.

I love the combination of turquoise and orange.

Roses on Grey

I finished cutting the outside part of the Dutch Rose blocks from the Ruby fabric.

Seeing them on the grey of my dining table, I'm thinking a grey background for the blocks.

We shall see. I am putting them away for now to finish some other projects. Considering Christmas is going to be all over in 3 months time, I think I ought to get a wriggle on and finish the Christmas present quilt at least.