And I am a winner again

Oh I am getting lucky lately as I just one another giveaway from a blog buddy. I won this kit

 This was from Dee on her wonderful blog Bitten by the quilting bug.

Thanks Dee for having this giveaway, I have a friend who loves Turtles and this will be eventually made for her.

I wonder if I should do the Lottery tonight as winnings usually come in threes!

More progress

So I finished the rest of the hst and laid out as much as I could on the living room floor and here is the result:




I really like how it has turned out. Today I will start putting the rows together.



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Labyrinth in progress

I have been making a few half square triangles for this quilt since I cut it out last weekend. Laid them out as I took a lunch break from work today and really like how it is turning out. 24 more hst to make and will be able to lay it all out. Will be back with a progress report soon.

More progress on my Wonky Log Cabin

Have finished 4  more blocks with 2 nearly finished and also made a decision to make the blocks bigger - they are all now 15 inches square.

Enjoy!

Oh I am a winner

Got a wonderful email the other day to let me know that I was the winner in the Go! Bloom Giveaway that Sarah Vedeler hosted on her blog.

  

I won everything in the above photograph which includes the following:

• The GO! Bloom CA
• An AccuQuilt GO! Baby
• The three dies used for the quilt: GO! Daisy, GO! Tulip and GO! Fun Flower
• GO! Bloom Hand Dyed Fabric Collection by Ricky Tims
• AURIfil Silk Hearts Thread Collection

I am so excited as I love Sarah's work. I actually own her GO! Be Dazzled CD and so I decided to try out one of the designs today.  Here is the end result:

I really enjoyed the process of applique of my embroidery  machine and the designs are just wonderful. It was my first time also working on a set of designs that needed the fabric on the hoop to be turned when stitching out, I always was nervous of trying that but it worked  great as Sarah's instructions are wonderfully written and really clear.

Looking forward to get my package from AccuQuilt and from Sarah in the near future.

Wonky Log Cabin - in progress

So I have decided to go with a wonky log cabin for my 2011 Roland McDonald House Quilt Challenge.
I read this Wonky log cabin tutorial  and decided that I would give it a whirl.

Here are the black and white fabrics I picked to use:

This is the lavender cascade I am using as inspiration and have picked out lavender fabric to match from my stash.

I completed my first block recently and really enjoyed the process. I had no plan just a number of 2 1/2 inch and 1 1/2 inch strips and off I went. I really like how it turned out. 

This will be squared up to 12 1/2 inches when I have all the block completed. One decision I need to make now is to keep it all solids and just use the Kona black and white solids in this block or to use the other black and white fabric in the picture above.

One block down and 24  more to go.

Life is like a bowlful Of __________________

so I decided on Lavender as my color for this quilt challenge. I love the smell of lavender and the color and also I think it will look great with black and white.

I have looked online for some lavender inspiration so here are a few I found:

And for fabric I found this lovely Batik Lavender Cascade fabric by Avlyn fabric:

I also have been trying to think of a design and thinking some thing fresh and modern. I have been reviewing some of the quilts on Flickr and here are some that caught my eye:

You can read more about this here

From Flickr I found this and other wonderful designs from sewandtellquilts.com

Now I am off to sleep to smell some lavender and dream some great quilt designs!

Spring is on the way

I was playing around with different aperture setting on my camera and like how this one turned out.

It is taken from the deck which is off our bedroom.

Life Is Like A Bowlful Of __________________

Check out this wonderful post from my quilting friend Thearica  who is starting to take names for the 2011 Ronald McDonald House Crayola Challenge.  Read her post to see what twist she has added for this years challenge.

For the quilt challenge we need to fill in the blanks for this statement "Life Is Like A Bowlful Of __________________ "   and then chose a color that represent the word in the blank and using any shade of that color and also black and white to make a quilt.

Of course I have signed up but still trying to decide what my color would be.

This is my third time entering this challenge and you can read about the others here and here! At the end of both of these raffles there was a check of $4000 given to Ronald McDonald House in Texas another check for $4000 given to the house at Stanford, CA.


You can see the quilts from the last challenge that used the Life Is Like A Bowlful of _______  theme here.

Another quilt top finsished

I bought this kits for the blocks for this quilt when I was at PIQF last October from a wonderful husband and wife who also sell on Ebay. 

Most of the blocks were done last year and last weekend I put the rows together and then did the 2 borders together last Friday night when I was at Open Sew at Eddies.

I just loved the colors when I saw the sample at the booth in PIQF   and now love how this quilt turned out. 

Next decision is what quilt design to use for quilting it, I also wonder how long it will be in the "to be quilted pile"