Bloggers BOM Block #1

I've finally finished my first BOM for the Bloggers Block Of the Month.

It took me a while to decide on my fabrics & I've had a bundle of half metres of Kate Spains Central Park in my fabric stash for some time & i've been saving it up for the right project. I'm not sure if this is the right project but then the fabric is sooooooo lovely that I'm not sure the right project would ever come along so I had to get over it & make the cut, after all I can't keep all the fabric I buy forever..... can I???

I made a block & then made another 3 to go with it, thus making a larger block. I love it... really love it, hope you do to.





My friend Franney is also taking part in this BOM & to see her version of the block you can visit her blog & see it here.

The fabrics for block #2 are almost all cut & hopefully this monday I'll be sewing it up :)

A Lizzie Kate Completion

I was going to blog about a quilting BOM that I've just started but I realised that my last couple of posts have been about quilting & so far I haven't shared with you my finished Lizzie Kate so here it is.



I think you'll agree that it's been expertly finished & the fabrics really set off the design. If you haven't come across her yet & you have some stitching to be "finished" up then I strongly recommend you get in touch with KarenV over at My Favourite Things. She's pretty amazing at what she does :)

Happy stitching :)

Log Cabin Workshop

Today I was booked in to an all day workshop at one of my favourite quilt shops, Thread Bear. The class was run by co-owner Kate & including myself she had seven pupils all raring to get going with our washing line..... yep.... thats right, I said WASHING LINE!!!!!

Kate was showing us a quick technique to make our log cabin blocks & it was called a washing line method. I've never heard of it before but I can confirm that I will be using it (quite a bit) in the future :)

In total I made 16 blocks today & I love the way they turned out. I may make a few more depending on how much of the pink fabric I have remaining & then I have to work out what design I want to piece the blocks in & then choose a border fabric..... both decisions could take months to come to a decision LOL

WIP Wednesday

A quick post today to share a couple of quilt WIP's that I have on the go.

The first is a drunkards path bag. This bag is part of a course I'm doing on curved seams. I'm about a week behind everyone else due to my holiday but I should be all caught up before next week :)


The second is the BOM quilt from my quilt group Shirley Quilters. All the blocks are now complete & the sashing is also complete. I have two borders that are all cut & ready to stitch. Hopefully this will be finished in the very near future as it's being displayed at an exhibition on 15th November!!!!


There are lots of other WIP Wednesdays for you to check out, just pop over to Freshly Pieced & have a look at all the linkys at the bottom of the post... enjoy :)

A New Toy :)

The day before I went on holiday I visited the Knitting & Stitching Show at Alexandra Palace in London.

I made several purchases but only one that I'm going to share with you today.

My new sewing machine. A Jenome Memory Craft 5900QC. I love it :)



I bought some other bits at the show too but haven't got around to photographing them yet, hopefully soon.

Happy stitching :)