Scatterdays Week 2 "R"

 This week the letter is:

and the categories are:

MAMMALS:  Rabbit - I just had to use my daughter's life long friend Peter. He has lived with Daughter 1 since she was 2 days old. He is a little battered but much loved.

TECHNOLOGY:  Remote Control -Where would my husband (and most other men) be without their Remotes, whatever did they do before they were invented??

TRANSPORT: Our trusty (rusty) red wheelbarrow, used for transporting everything from concrete to fire wood. Has often been used for carting the shopping from the car to the house.

RED FROM THE SEWING ROOM: Just a small selection of threads.

Next week the letter Q: A plant, night time, something healthy and for something quilty how about something quick.

Scatterdays - Week 1 - W

This will be my first attempt at playing Scatterdays, it was organised by Cinzia. Our first challeng was the letter 'W' and the catergories are: Expensive, Music, Exciting & WIP (work in progress).

Expensive: Bottled Water, I always hate it when I go out without my water bottle and have to buy some. Seems silly to pay for something that I have at home for free.

 Music: One of my husband's favourites - Fats Waller

 Exciting: Women's tennis. I find Women's tenis much more exciting than watching the men. Lovely to stay in by the air conditioner when it's been so hot, around 40C yesterday and very windy.  Took this photo from the TV.

WIP: If you believe it I have a quilt on the frame under all this fabric, I am in the middle of sorting some of my fabrics. A lot of things were just dumped in here over the Christmas holidays when we had visitors. This might motivate me to get it finished.

The next letter is 'R' mammal, technology, transport, red from your sewing room. Thinking already!

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.