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Back from the quilter’s
Last week our little friendship group (The Mad COWS) sent off 7 quilts with our wonderful quilter Natalie from: thequiltingbug. A very speedy 7 days later she drove accross Melbourne to deliver them to...
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Up the garden path (with a dog)!
Well actually I don’t know whether this is a garden path quilt but I do know that I started it on a retreat about 3 years ago and I’m mighty relieved that I finished stitching on the binding last...
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In Praise of Disasters
I’ve decided to share something with you all and let me tell you it has taken more than a little courage. I much prefer to show those nice little things I can feel at least a modicum of pride over. But...
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Baby flannel quilt
Still waiting for news of baby’s arrival (from friends in Bonnie Scotland) but in the meantime I set to putting some flannel squares together to make a nice snuggly quilt for bub. I appliqued some...
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Mad COWS day out!
There’s nothing like a fun day out with the girls and that’s exactly what we did last Saturday even though it was a bit on the hot side (about 38C which is probably well up in the 90′s in Fahrenheit)....
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Having fun with my Baby!
Baby Go! Don’t you just love getting a new toy to play with? I do and its not even Christmas yet! Anyway here it is – the Go Baby fabric cutter by Accuquilt. There is a bigger version too but this one...
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Peace, Joy, Lego houses and quilting in the holiday season!
I hope you are all well and have enjoyed a wonderful Christmas with your loved ones. Our Melbourne Christmas was a fairly relaxed and quiet affair but enjoyable all the same. We have a street BBQ...
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Garden theme friendship quilt
These blocks I’m showing you are actually from our 2010 friendship group quilt. We chose the theme of “Garden” at the beginning of the year so that it would be nice and easy for people to come up with...
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Life is a Garden…
I showed you my garden blocks a few weeks ago which I made as part of our friendship group’s 20ll theme and here they are again finally made into a quilt top with a couple of additions. I decided to...
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Jelly roll tube tutorial
I came across a great tutorial the other day on youtube by Misouri Quilters and thought I would give it a whirl as I have had a Kaffe Fassett jelly roll sitting there looking at me for far too long!...
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The Portsea Retreat
I wanted to share some photos from a recent retreat I went on down at sunny Portsea on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria. It is an old school camp that was set up in the 1940′s for under-priveleged...
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Baby Boy Quilt
I am feeling a bit guilty for being away from the blog for so long! It’s a bit like when you haven’t phoned a friend for a long time and you know you should have done and the longer it goes, the harder...
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From Pokemon to Naruto quilt challenge
A couple of months ago (well ok maybe 6)!! I asked my youngest son if he would like me to make him a quilt and to my surprise, he said ‘yes’. I say surprise because as a big lanky sixteen year old, I...
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Naruto update
Progress! Its moving rather slowly (a bit too slow for my son’s liking) but I thought I would share where I am up to on the Naruto quilt. As I have been making it up as I go along, I haven’t quite...
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