Accuquilt Cutter

I really want one of these. So this is my picture board, my wish list!

Alderwood Quilts October Giveaway

I have entered...try an enter all of the giveaways for an Accuquilt, I want one so much. If you win, please leave a comment so I know I helped!

AccuQuit GO! Fabric Cutting System with your choice of 3 die. Ends November 1st

Just clicking the pic gets you there...magic huh? Here's the website anyway in case the magic doesn't work.
http://alderwoodquilts.blogspot.com/2010/10/alderwood-quilts-october-giveaway.html

Will post some photos here in the next few days. I have to finish off a few one-piece cot quilts for my daughter and her sister-in-law. Both are due to have their next babies within days of each other, at the beginning of November, and are both wanting to finish off the babies rooms. Also I am making a couple of Nappy Hangers in matching fabric. As I say, photos to follow!
I am using the Jungle Baby fabric by Patty Reed, which is the same as I made for my daughter's first baby, but the animals are in a different pose. I have never done free motion quilting before, but that is what I'm doing around the outlines of the toy animals, and I think it suits the picture.
My back is aching so much lately that I haven't been able to cut fabric using the rotary cuuter at the table, so luckily I have a BOM from Calico Cross roads to do some stitching on, and I need to finish off Homepsun's BOM, "Life is a Celebration". That will require a trip to a fabric store to get some Whisperweft, so a trip of a few hundred kms! Maybe I'll google it!

Giveaway

I would dearly love to own an Accuquilt, but alas the funds alude me! With apologies to Janis Joplin.... I tried all my quilting life to own one of these machines, it will give me such joy if chance intervenes.
Then I discovered Milies Quilting is having a giveaway of one, with 3 sets of dies! http://milliesquilting.blogspot.com/2010/09/accuquilt-go-cutter-giveaway.html

Just imagne all the possibilties!

Baby things

I just entered a giveaway at http://mainstreetmarketdesigns.com/blog/
Kimberly has designed some lovely baby things and if you follow the link to her facebook page, she has a few tutorial too. I have never entered a giveaway before, but a few babies due to arrive in the family at the end of the year I am looking for new and interesting things to make.

Also I been have working on Life is a Celebration BOM in Homepsun. When I discovered that the designers used quite a bit of their stash in the blocks and I had bought just enough French Hatbox to complete the quilt, I put the project on hold until we got back from Tasmania. So now I am ploughing ahead... still have to do a few more, but they are really on the cutting board and one is on the machine!
I have two more corner blocks done, and in the next day or two will update again when I get Kellie Wulfsohns block...nature, finished!

This BOM is such a learning curve... from blanket stitch applique and bias making, embroidery (which I discovered I love) to needleturn applique and free motion applique...which I am teaching myself! So far I have made a few blocks of leaves and flowers with free motion applique, which I will one day make into a knee rug...or a king size quilt, depending on how long it takes!

Catching up!!

I have been really busy catching up with the blocks I promised myself not to get behind in.

I haven't gotten behind with In Pops Garden, which I get sent from Calico Crossroads in Exeter, Tasmania each month. It was a gift from my 2 Cocker Spaniels for Mother's Day....yeah, right.

Firstly, at long last...here are the photos of In Pop's Garden, can't wait to see the next in line! This is something I am really enjoying, stitching away each night while I watch telly.