A Quilt for Nova

This little quilt was made at the request of 2nd daughter, a good friend to all my daughters and his wife just had their first baby, on November 27th.

A lovely little girl they named Nova.

I was pleased to be able to make a quilt for them from fabrics that were waiting in the stash for someone to have a baby girl.

The quilt measures 36 x 45 inches.

ATC Swap

 Recently I was in an ATC swap and the theme was "Circles" These are the ATCs I received:

and this is the one I made:

A happy little Caterpillar.

I am still here..........

I know it's been awhile since I last posted, no excuse - just laziness or maybe a very busy year. Daughter getting married, a new baby in the family, our first grandchild, a beautiful baby boy who is now 10 weeks old.

To ease myself back into blogging I took some photos around the garden yesterday.

I also had a visitor take great interest in what I was doing, he flew that close a couple of times I thought he would land on my shoulder!

 I do have some new quilt pictures but not on this computer, lots of stitching and knitting going on this year. I will add them shortly.

Another Challenge Quilt

Running late as usual, just completed the 'Out of Africa' challenge for Challenging Ourselves

I did a google search for Africa and came across the Tinga Tinga drawings and paintings.They were the inspiration for my quilt. Love the colours and naive style of paintings used.

The quilt measures approx 14.5 x 14.5 inches (37 cm square).

Time Flies

I have been keeping myself busy and doing lots of quilt top making. I now have lots of tops to be quilted. Here are some pictures of what I've been up to.

Art Quils Around the World and Challenging Ourselves challenge quilts:

Two colour challenge -

 

Doorways -

Self Portrait - I think I overdid the the lips

This was a tricky one, we had to name a colour we seldom use and then make a quilt using that colour -

 

Christmas Gifts - Emma's Trees. Made in memory of a friend's daughter who sadly passed away leaving a very young family.

Baby Quilts made as gifts, Peter Rabbit was a panel that I free motion quilted.

A Pooh Bear Quilt made for a very recent arrival.

I know that I have other completed tops but I've looked through all my photos and it looks like I will have to get busy with the camera.

Holiday Pictures

1956 Hudson

 We have just come home from a week away with the car club. We were based in Warrnambool for the week, there is plenty to see and do on the shipwreck coast. This trip we used the '56 Hudson Hornet

12 Apostles

Loch Ard Gorge

Hopkins Falls

Hopkins Falls

The Four Elements - a challenge

September 15th was the reveal date for the Challenging Ourselves Four Elements Challenge, Earth, Air, Fire and Water.I had lots of ideas but none that included all for of the elements. In the end I made four separate postcards, they were going to be stand alone pieces but I felt they looked better as one piece.

Water

Air/Wind

Fire

 

Earth - Ploughed fields