It's Raining, it's Pouring....

Phew, can't believe how much rain we've had since yesterday morning! My poor daughter of 16 is at a church camp too!

Good thing is that this weather is excellent for getting some sewing done!

First off I did my block swap for the month.  Teena (my partner for this month) requested an Ohio Star in green and blues. It will be in the mail tomorrow. Here is just a sneak peak.

Next I finished quilting and binding my Jelly Roll quilt from the previous posting. Just did some freemotion quilting all over and used the same fabric for the backing and binding, a beautiful Marcus fabric called Civil War Tribute Collection.

Then at 9.30pm last night (!) I started a little baby blanket for someone at church. It is a little cotton and  flannel blanket, using the self binding mitred corner method. It came out ok for a first go. Sure the baby won't mind the little imperfections.

Hmmm..... let's see, I must just get something else done this afternoon.... maybe i should think about feeding my family too!

Ruth's Quilt - First Charity Quilt

Ruth is a wonderful girl! She is my daughter's Youth Leader at church and such a role model for the younger girls! Ruth is envolved in more charity projects than I can recall, seven I think? Well Ruth is forever busy with fundraisers so I offered to make her a quilt for a project for orphan kids overseas.  It is finished at last,  hope you like it Ruth and that you will raise a few dollars with it. 

The pattern is from the Jelly Roll Quilts book by Pam and Nicky Lintott, called Sparkling Gemstones. I just used fat quarters  and cut my own jelly roll strips.  Quilted by myself on the long arm quilting machine.

Jelly Roll 9 Patch

After hours and hours visiting so many other fabulous quilting blogs and looking at tons of photos I am putting my new Jelly Roll to use and started a 9 Patch project.  I don't have a pattern, so it grows as we go.  After a few trial cuts and unpicking I now figured out what length to cut the JR strips and even made the first 9 blocks tonight.

CraftExpo Newcastle 2010

What a great day at the craft and mostly quilt expo. Went by train from Gosford with 2 friends and travelled just over an hour . The train was buzzing with people all with the same destination in mind! Heaps of men too, as this expo is combined with a woodwork show. We also attended a few demonstration, I went to a raw edge applique, jelly roll and scrap quilting demo. And I had to do a little bit of shopping too!