December already

I have been making a few quilts just haven't blogged about them. I quilted this quilt on Monday I had thought I would make it for us but its too pink for me let alone Bob. I'm going to donate it to the childrens ward at the hospital. While I was quilting this one the other machine was empty so I thought I'd do another one of the many hospital quilts waiting to be quilted and picked this one. It is lovely and really well made sits so nice and square on the frame something my quilts never seem to do

 

and lastly Freddi likes to sit on these nice ward towels straight out of the dryer I hope she gets off before Bob arrives home. He doesn't seem to believe you can't catch anything from a towel that a cat has been sitting on

 

Quilts

These 2 quilts I finished a while ago for the children's ward at Wellington hospital they have been sitting around waiting for me to take photos
And this is kylie being very helpful I don't know why she didn't want to help right now!

Back again

 

We went to The Gold Coast for a weeks holiday had a lovely time this is the view from our apartment on the 19th floor just stunning. The apartment was beautiful far more luxurious than we have experienced before. I did mention to my hubby this is what I expect now lol.

The the family went home I went to my online yahoo group C.R.A.F.T retreat at Mount Alford. Had a wonderful time just wish it had been longer so much laughing. What an amazing group of ladies they are.

 

 

 

Our guests of honour Marilyn and her daughter Joelene  in the front came all the way from USA they enjoyed themselves too.

And look we even saw a kangaroo. There were kaolas in the gum trees but they were to high up to get photos.

2 surprises for me

As usual I have been absent for a while but have been busy had 2 quilts to get organised for 2 different shows.



This quilt which was called Antique Sampler Blues from the pattern by Antique Sampler by Sue Daley entered into the Pinestream Quilt show at Upper Hutt.It won Best Machine quilting so that was a surprise as I had used Sue B's longarm machine. But really exciting as I loved every minute of making this quilt. Actually I am wrong because adding a hanging sleeve and putting on the label are really boring and might be why a lot of my quilts do not have labels.

This week was is Wellington Quilters guild Exhibition I spend Wednesday helping to hang the quilts what a fun day that was it is so lovely seeing all the beautiful quilts go up on the walls.
I entered The Dutch bastard which is in another post I had to rename it so we came up with De Dutch deliquent.

 

And look what it won

So it has been worth all the blood sweat and tears. The last tale of this quilt was I tried to block it as there is a bit of a wave on one side and blow me down the ###### red ran. After a bit of a panic I remembered that I had some colour catchers that I had bought a few years ago in the states and surprising enough even knew where they were. They saved the day and collected the reds and saved the quilt from the rubbish which is where it was going to go if the reds ran.

 

My Day

I spent all day today quilting my Antique Sampler that will be going in a quilt show next month. I do love this quilt and need to make a hanging sleeve before I can put the binding on tomorrow.

Catching up on what I've made

I have been quite busy making quilts while being missing in Blogger Land. This was such a fun quilt to make I did a class with the lovely Cathy Doherty from Material Obsession a while ago I quilted it on Monday using my friends long arm.Tabby is modelling the quilt for us

Walking round Wellington

Yesterday I had to go across the other side of the city. I'd seen signs to this park and thought it a good time to explore. Bolt had a wonderful time running along the track while I just enjoyed walking somewhere new. Certainly bets walking round the streets of Island Bay.