Those Blue scraps

For what seems like years, but is only really a few months, I have been trying to reduce the amount of blue scraps that I have accumulated. I have a plastic box with a lid that I could no longer get the lid to fit except by basically sitting on it. So I decided it had to be reduced. Now I am very much a hoarder, always think that if I throw it out or give it away I will need it. So this is what I have come up with, it still needs one more plain border (maybe two) I want to make it into a doona cover for my bed.
If my adding up is correct there are a total of 136 blue squares made from the scraps. Eleven borders so far and the turning in the centre. I made it up as I went along.
The centre is sixteen 4 1/2 inch squares. All the rest are 5 inch, except for four in 3rd border which I had to make bigger to make them fit.
By the way the lid now goes down on the box easily, but it is still full.

Blue update

So far I have 16 squares at 4 1/2 inches and four at 5 inches. My plan is to use the 16 as a centre with sashing and go from there. The reason I have two different sizes is............the calico I have used in the back was all different sizes, all scraps too. Now to me that seems perfectly OK. I will get back with what comes next, atm I don't know.

The Watcher

I had a visitor while I was chopping fire wood, he flexed his muscles and did not even offer to help. He is not tame, we live on the edge of the National Park, and outside our back yard is vacant land, they come a graze there, he is just a big old man Roo and bolder than the younger ones.

I know what I am doing, I think !!!!!

My son and husband don't think I know what I am doing, but I do (really) This is my blue box, all my blue scraps end up in here. I am making it smaller, the lid wont fit on any more.

the latest placemat swap

This one is for Leanne, it was fun to make and he is such a handsome fella, King of the Roost.

My Tassie Family

Snug seat

A lovely lady, Terri, on my craft forum kindly sent me the pattern for a Snug seat, I have made two for the twins. I did not have a baby to try it with so I just used a pillow. If anyone would like one of these just contact me via this blog, and I will give you Terri's email address, she makes these seat on order.

Knitting

Just lately I have been knitting, I have made a few pairs of slippers, and a scarf, easy, so I decided I would attempt a pair of socks. So I found myself a pattern for a lovely simple pair of socks. My printer is totally out of ink so I had wrote it out, went for the knitting needles and this is what happen. There was such a mess of needles that I did not know where to start, so I found a lovely pattern for a knitting needle case, only took a couple of hours from deciding to make it to finishing it.

I have been asked for the site where I got the needle case instructions, click here, and scroll down to September 7, 2007 and the Knitting Needle Case Tutorial. I actually made mine bigger, I used the full length of a fat quarter.

Mothers Day,

I have been working on a quilt for quite a while for my mum for mothers day, I made it with one day to spare. the Top Photo is what my lovely daughter made for me, it has a bag in it that you put in the microwave to heat or in the fridge to cool.
The bottom photo is the quilt my mum got, it has not got a name but it is rainbow coloured so maybe "Fractured Rainbow"

Seeing Double once again,

I have finally finished the quilts for the twins, took forever to do two. They are the same, but not identical.

Wonder who thought of this.

OK I am going to try again, I was making my Row by Row that Cheryl and I are doing and came across this. A new way (for me anyway) of doing flying geese.

What I have done over the long weekend.

A while ago while I was blogging I came across a blog (unfortunately I can't remember whose it was) with a quilt for kids on it. This is an orgainisation in the states that supplies fabric to quilters to make up for children in hospital that are there for long periods. I sent them an email and because I am in Australia they would not send the fabric to me. So........ I got onto my other lovely daughter who is living in the states at the moment and she got the fabric sent to her and then sent it on to me. Last week I got an enormous parcel in the mail. (I am still happy dancing about it). In it was the fabric for the quilt plus lots more.

1830's quilts

I am not even sure if I have not loaded the two of these up before, but here they are again, Thanks to Barb Graham for the pattern. These are for my sister in law.

More Swaps

Anearly completed placemat for Petunia and the grandmothers fan, the one on the right is the one I made for myself

My Beautiful Granddaughters

These lovely little ladies are my granddaughters Lucy, Olivia and Lilly

Fat quarters

This is my Buzz Saw quilt. My lovely daughter organized for me to get 14 different fat quarters and my neighbour gave me heaps of calico, this is what became of it

where has the time gone

well it seems to be over a month since I was here last, what have I been doing? I guess if I don't know nobody does. I will try and get it all in the right order.

First that row by row again

Row by Row

This is the March row. It is a Shamrock

Placemat number three

The top two photos are the of the placemat I made for Gail, I made this double sided.

The bototm photo is of the placemat I received from Petunia ( Barb) she did an amazing job, I absolutely love this one.

What to do now

I haven't posted in here for ages, and it is not because I haven't been doing anything, it is just that nothing is finished, I have started four different quilts since February, one is ready to quilt, one still needs "something" (not sure what yet) and at the moment I'm working on a big bed quilt for each of the twins.
I am also occasionally going and doing a few rows on the quilting frame, I was there just a little while ago and going great, when the light on the machine flickered, went out, came back and died. Now the machine will not go at all. Why oh why have they included the light in the circuit to make the machine go (I hope this is all that is wrong with it) the globe is a tiny little thing that I will have to buy a replacement for, not the least bit like the spare globe I have for my other machine. Darn!!!! Why does this always happen when I am going good.