My creative space...

These quilting projects are both calling out to be finished. The first is the Mendocino coin quilt that I started last year(!). One little alteration to the back, 3 or four lines of quilting and binding to go. Surely this should be easy to do but the next pretty/big/swappy thing is always so much more interesting.




The second is this barely started Quilt as You Go project that I'd like to make queen size!





I do have a plan for this stack of lovelies though, they'll go out to my fellow Bee Seam Piecing Downunder bees next month. I thought that these blocks might be a little too much to ask for but everyone has been very generous and said that they're keen to give them a try. I'm hoping that 22 blocks in my mailbox will motivate me to complete the rest.

I love starting new projects but finishing them is not my strong suit. What about you, are you a starter or one of the mythical finishers?

(On the not finishing note, I forgot to add the link for you to go & visit more creative spaces over at kootoyoo!)

Quilt Block Colouring Templates

I've driven myself a bit nuts the last couple of days looking for and then trying to make a quilt block template for mini bow ties - you know, the sort you can colour in to try out your design? Finally today I drew one up in google docs. Here it is in all its exciting glory ~

Pretty spiffy huh? If you find yourself in need of a 4x5 block mini bow tie quilt design, this is for you. Just click on it. I've posted it over in the sidebar as well (don't worry if it looks a little wonky in the preview - it's fine when it prints). After all of that effort it would be lovely if at least one other person used it! If mini bow ties aren't what you're looking for here are some links to other quilt block templates~

The WWQP Colouring Book

50 quilt block templates to colour in. Also has block piecing instructions for these and many more blocks.

Block Central's Quilter's Coloring Book

Smaller collection of quilt blocks templates to colour.

Block designer

Allows you to build a block with squares and half square triangles & print it out. Produces a single block.

Some other really useful block resources

• With Hearts and Hands...Huge List of Free Quilt Block Patterns
and of course
• The list of block tutorials from the Quilting Bee Blocks group on flickr.
  

Sunday Stash

I'm a little obsessed with stocking up on the Heather Ross at the moment so I got some of this Frog Prince in the pink colourway.

It was lovely to see it in a little pile with some of my other pieces of Far Far Away 1.

Heaven. More to come soon, although in very small amounts because they come from local shops.

Doll Quilt received

I received the loveliest package from Rachel/ contented be which contained my gorgeous doll quilt and so many extra goodies that it felt like my birthday.

These are Rachel's pics (I hope you don't mind Rachel), every photo I've taken for a week and a half has been so blurry & I really wanted to post my stunning little quilt. I sparted this little baby straight away & was soo happy when I opened it. I just love it.

Here's one of my blurry pics of my loot!







Yep, I made out like a bandit.


I sent mine off on September the 1st but it hasn't arrived yet. I'm nervously waiting for my partner to receive it and hoping that she likes it as much as I did.

Meanwhile, I'm playing along in two little swaps - the Scrappy Mug Rug Swap and the Scrappy Pincushion Swap. It's really fun to do something small after the Doll Quilt Swap, although I'm having the busiest month ever.

Sorry to you RSS people for the multiple postings, I'm having serious blogger issues today!

Friday favourites...

Musky pinks with a little soft yellow, green, blue and grey.

1. DQS9 top nearly done, 2. peek a boo, 3. 98.365 (testing!testing!!!!), 4. DQS9 Quilt Top, 5. mini quilt., 6. My row block 4

Click the links to visit the lovely quilters.

My creative space...

Lately, it's been hexies, hexies, hexies.

Ok, so there has been some other sewing too but the photos suck. Do you ever go through bad photo patches? It's like bad hair, all of a sudden nothing works and you can't leave the house/ upload your photos. So, hexies it is...

These are half-inchers that I made using the fabric glue basting method (tutorial coming soon). This method isn't quite as portable as sewing them as you really need a surface to press down the edges but I still like to keep my little kit handy.

Visit some other Creative Spaces over at Kootoyo.

pink stash...

I love pinks. I tried to resist them for years but now I've given in and I think around 80% of my stash is pink. These are some Denyse Schmidt, my only piece of Bari J, some Japanese Sevenberry...

and some Munki Munki kitties.

I'm soo happy to finally have the kitties and have already cut into this piece for a little project I'll share later.