Donation quilt

I made this quilt last year using charm squares and scraps. It was made as a demonstration for some ladies who wanted ideas for quick quilts. It's the disappearing nine patch pattern and was pieced and machine quilted quite quickly.

As well as money, I am donating this quilt to the bushfire victims after reading Maree's post about organising blocks of this pattern. She has kindly offered to take this off my hands to pass on.
Go and visit her at on my veranda because she is putting a lot of items up for auction in conjunction with Melly and Me.

Help for the animals

I haven't been able to say anything about the bushfires here in Australia that hasn't already been said. The generosity of people here in Australia, my homeland New Zealand, America and all around the world has been incredible.
As well as donating funds for the victims, we also need funds to help the wildlife, pets and the organisations and people who are helping them.
Read about what Julie at Bushbaby Jag is doing to help and link on the RSPCA link if you wish to donate. Lets not forget that the animals are victims as well.

Sneak peeks at another oldie

I wanted to change my header so I took some photos of some of my Baltimore Album style blocks.See the birds eyes? they are cut out of a fabric I have that's actually not eyes.

I have about twenty blocks done and need to do five more, some inking and compose a border. Whew that's a lot of work! I might finish by the time my hair turns completely grey and I'm in a nursing home.

I haven't worked on any of these blocks this last year. I cut my teeth on applique with them, maybe I should set myself the task of at least doing another block soon.

If you come back, you'll see the whole of these blocks next time.

The vine quilt, panel #1

I'm as happy as I can be with the first panel of this quilt. It's really difficult to get a decent size photo with such a long panel.

It needs trimming right down to 5 1/2" unfinished in width. when they are all done....years from now :)

I wanted an idea of how it would look against the pink I'm using for sashing and I'm pleased with my choice.

I find appliqueing leaves to be one of the easiest shapes to do and there's no fussing with sharp points on these. The panel took eight days for me to applique, working on it each evening and thinking a lot about Susan McCord and how she found time to make this quilt.

New York Beauties

These quilts were made just because and then they got used as class samples for teaching how to draft and paper foundation piece the New York Beauty block. I finished hand quilting this one in 2003.

You can't tell from the photo but there is quite a bit of bearding from the pure wool batting I used

This bright little number was finished in 2002 and has a few millennium fabrics in it so I called it "Celebration". It was quilted with a big stitch in a Japanese variegated thread using a cotton batting. I'm very keen on big stitch quilting and it goes so fast.

I seem to have several distinct types of styles of quilting. My bright quilts still have their roots in traditional patterns, but I do seem to swing to and fro. That's what's great about quilting!

Thanks to those who took the trouble to comment on my last post, I have some good ideas for getting focused. I'm going to start by calling my sets of blocks orphans rather than UFOs, that's halved them already and I feel no obligation to turn them into quilts unless I so desire!!!

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.