Something Finished!

Finally finished the Double Wedding ring quilt for Edwards's daughter Alexandra and her husband Brenton. It was made using the Accuquilt GO! and the Double Wedding ring dies, (its a 2 die set). I hand quilted it and now it is ready for the trip to its new home.

It really is ages since I last posted, so have made a May resolution (is that possible?) to post at least once a week.

Since launching my website http://www.craftandquilting.com.au/ a few months back, I have been so busy going to quilting groups and markets to demonstrate the Accuquilt cutters, that I haven't had a great amount of time to actually make much! I spent a week in Deniliquin in NSW in April and sold 14 Baby GO!'s and 3 GO! Cutters in a week. Of course, those same poeple are now buying extra dies.
I am still hand quilting the Double Wedding ring quilt in the last post, and am making up a knee rug for my 2 year old grandson William! It is coming into winter and when he has dinner..then his bath, it is time to watch a bit of his favourite TV show "In the Night Garden" at the moment. SO.... I thought I'd give him something a bit special, just for himself. So he can sit down and get sleepy...hey, it works for me!

It is cut using the 6 1/2" Tumbler die and the numbers are from Accuquilts Buy and Try range of new dies. I splurged and got the letters as well. Both the numbers and letters are 3" high.

Next I will audition some fabrics for the border... maybe a narrow black, a little yellow and edged with the same blue?

The cute cow fabric I got from a Fat 1/4 swap on the Craft Forum I belong to, http://www.thepickledishpatch.com/OurCraftForum so I decided to use it this way so it managed to spread itself!

I have mentioned to a few ladies that I have been so busy in the last month, with my website, getting ready to go interstate next month where we are having a trade stall at a motorhome rally, and trying to get up to date with my swaps and the lovely BOM In Pops Garden. I received the last parcel from the BOM the other day, (thanks Pauline), and now in a few weeks hope to find the time to finish off the last few blocks and put it all together.
The most pressing thing is though, the quilt I have been putting together for my Step-daughter and her husband. High-school sweethearts, they married last week after 6 years. I have shown them the quilt., and they love it!
I made it using the Accuquilt GO!'s Wedding Ring dies (its a 2 die set) and it only took me a few hours to cut out most of the fabric, but not having a pattern I made up the last few blocks as I got closer to sewing them all. The colours are black and white, their favourite, with a slash of the bright pink that was in their bridesmaid dresses, flowers and invitations. I made a pattern to evenb out the edge and corners as my partner, the bride's Dad, didn't like the circle shapes! Anyway, it allowed me a bit of freedom to add more borders until it was the size needed.
I will hand quilt it, so showed it to the couple a few days before the wedding. They got something else from us as a gift, this is a keepsake.
The back was done like this as I ddn't have a big enough peice of fabric, yet had enough scraps to something a bit different. I hand embroidered a label a few days before. Now to finish it and get on with other things.

Number 32..... Kristy! I'll send you an email. I'll post it on the forum and hope to see you there often! Congratulations.
Nice to see so many people here and their comments. For those of you that wanted to know more about Cottage Garden Threads, they are on my website, www.craftandquilting.com.au and I stock them. They are hand dyed right here in Victoria, and have passed stringent testing for colour fastness with "flying colours"!
Isn't that weird, I can't embed the Random Nunber Generator with its result intact. Handy if you need to copy the generator for you own use.

OK everyone, I have inserted my Random Number Generator and now have to do the draw. DRUM ROLL........... mmm have to post this first then do it, so two posts!

Thank you for joining Our Craft Forum’s blog hop. So what is “Our Craft Forum” a craft forum for like minded people who love crafts. Mostly patchwork, stitching, quilting and the like. It’s a safe place to make new friends who share a love of craft & to have some fun and a little bit of laughter along the way & to join in on swaps of all types.

This week end is designed to tell our blogging friends about our wonderful forum and to invite you to be a part of our forum.

Several of our members will be offering tutorials, giveaways and some tips of the trade.

The blog hop starts at miss~nances blog so if you want to join us on the whole journey please go to http://missnance.blogspot.com/ and follow the links at the bottom of each post to find the next blog along the way.

Each person who joins our forum from this bloghop will go in the draw for a craft pack. So to join our forum please go to http://ourcraftforum.freeforums.org/ and register.

So join in on the fun and maybe find a new forum, new blog and new friends along the way. You never know, you may even learn something new or win a great prize.

Leave me a comment and go in my draw to win 4 fat quarters from the Metropolis range of fabrics created by Faye Burgos, a few yards of Ric Rac and a skein of Cottage Garden Threads. I will draw this on Monday morning with the random number generator.

Next Blog to hop to....http://nannymoos.blogspot.com/

Our Craft Forum Blog Hop

This weekend Our Craft Forum is hosting a blog hop, from Noon Friday 25 to Midnight Sunday 27 February EDST. So what is “Our Craft Forum”? It is a craft forum for like minded people who love crafts. Mostly patchwork, stitching, quilting and the like. It’s a safe place to make new friends who share a love of craft & to have some fun and a little bit of laughter along the way & to join in on swaps of all types.

This week end is designed to tell our blogging friends about our wonderful forum and to invite you to be a part of our forum.

Several of our members will be offering tutorials, giveaways and some tips of the trade.

The blog hop starts at miss~nances blog so if you want to join us on the whole journey please go to http://missnance.blogspot.com/ and follow the links at the bottom of each post to find the next blog along the way.

Each person who joins our forum from this blog hop will go in the draw for a craft pack. So join in on the fun and maybe find a new forum, new blog and new friends along the way. You never know you may even learn something new or win a great prize.