Using up leftovers.....

This weekend I played with some left over fabrics .....

I made this cute hedgehog quilt in 2018 for youngest grandiegirl who was going to visit us and needed a big bed quilt... Pattern by Melly and Me called Happy Hedgehogs.

Michelle had gifted me some very sweet hedgehog fabric which you can see more clearly here....

 and I had some of Emma Jean Jansen "Eureka" fabric which I used for the big flowers and backgrounds.

I never did take a picture of the finished quilt but it lives in the UK now where we have spotted real life hedgehogs (sniffle sniffle)

Anyway, as you know I like to use up as much of my precious favourite fabrics as I can.  I first saw Star Pop on Raewyn's blog.

Star Pop is by Emily Dennis

Chopped up the left over fabrics, purchased some plain fabric for the stars and this weekend I got to sew sew sew.  I made the small throw size (42 blocks required) which finishes at 60 x 52".   I think I will used this pattern again....

I'm leaving it at that size ... binding is made and ready with it....

Righto, Gotto Go..... today I am going to try and tame some little scraps .... that should be a challenge

Have a great weekend.......

More Christmas....

These panels were given to me some time ago and I had them pinned waiting for attention for a while...

I did some basic quilting around the edges of the design and some wriggly lines on the backing.

Pulled out my trusty overlocker and joined the sides... (no lining)

some binding and hanging loop on the end and they were done.... 

Included in the panel was a little door hanger to be made too.... and I found just the right coloured tassle to go on the end....

Great to have something that has been 'pending' for a while completed....

I also have a quilt finish now that the binding and label are done ... my darling little hedgehogs is now completed

(this is a sweet pattern by Melly and Me)

It's own special label was stitched.

You can see a bit of the quilting here... I went around the applique then some swirls in the open area and a fun loopy border.

I was thrilled that I had found the fabric for the backing at a sale... the colours are just right

Sheets were ordered to go on the bed... don't they match just perfectly?

Last week I jumped the queue (to be fair I was waiting on hearing back from someone and needed something smallish to keep me occupied) and did a bit more of my own quilting.... also for Christmas....

Righto, Gotto Go... that coffee is calling.... and a quilt needs pinning 

Have a lovely week....

A bit of housekeeping....

No reply bloggers.... I am getting a few of these recently... not sure if there are changes in blogger or what, but I always try to reply to comments so if you are not getting replies then that is why - very sorry but I can't find you.... I do try.... promise...

I have found homes for the patterns.... Narelle and Tracy..... thanks... there were some other offers and thank you... I wish I had more to send out. Let me know your addresses and I hope you have fun making them...

Evening stitching has meant another little block for Wings .... my bee looks a bit agitated... I think it got hay-fever from the pollen...

Since I have a small visitor arriving next month who hasn't got a big bed quilt from Nana I have been doing a bit of my own quilting....

… and sewing on of binding....

… and the last couple of evenings have been spent hand sewing the binding... still more to go!

… but I did take a short intermission to finish off these … cork, glitter felt, hessian twine and a bit of tilda fabric....  

Michelle gifted me these pretty panels a while ago and I have had them pinned for more of a while so today I am going to spend a bit more of while on them......

Righto, Gotto Go.... quilting is calling me.... 

Weekend is coming up... hope you have a lovely one...

These are 3 Moda Blockheads blocks done recently..... they are all 6 1/2" square in size....

I have a couple from last week to catch up on … I might wait for the next lot and do them all together....

This is a free BOM from HERE

https://bearcreekquiltingcompany.com/moda-blockheads-2018/

This weekend we visited some of the competition gardens (I didn't take pictures!) but I also had a bit of time to sew so I put the borders in my hedgehog quilt..... 

… and made the binding.....

now to find some backing and wadding and add it to my 'waiting to be quilted' queue!!!  Hmmm.... that queue is a bit long....

This is a Melly and Me pattern and it all revolved around the cute tiny hedgehog fabric …..

Evenings I have been working on Dutch Treat and these are the latest 4 done..... 

12 more to go... I can see the light at the end of the tunnel!!!

Righto, Gotto Go..... Spring Carnival this week - so much to see!

A finish... and some progress.....

I finally finished this small blanket which has been crocheted....

I'm not a skilled crocheter and I had to do a fair bit of pulling to manipulate it into shape... but it will be warm for someone....

I have another I started using up scraps from my Ripple blanket I did last year.... I need to relearn what I was doing but there isn't too much more on it to be done.

After a bit of a relapse I have started back on my Dutch Treat blocks ..... this one has been finished recently.... I am going to try and focus on them for a while in the evenings....

My Tuesday machine sewing saw my hedgehog blocks put together....  There is still more work to do on these, including borders....

I also managed to get the borders on all my Angel Story blocks..... now there are 320 2 1/2" blocks to cut and sew!!! 

Some time ago I showed some stitcheries that had been given to me years ago..... I sewed them onto some background and Hubz wanted to frame it...

 - so now another picture is up (and yes, I know the pictures are all wonky) ...…

Righto, Gotto Go ….. time to put my feet up and stitch a bit ….

Angels are done....

Best Friends …..

and Becky the Bookworm

have been stitched...

So now all the angels are done... they need to be trimmed to size and then sorting out colours to make up the blocks and get them all together... may take a little time...... 

… meanwhile I have started sewing hedgehog eyes and mouths....

Spring is springing in the garden….

Acer tree

Wisteria

Grevillea

Eremophila

Clivia

Clivia

Amazing what still grows and flowers with so little or no water....  

Since painting the house we are slowly putting up some of our pictures and doing some framing

This set we had the frames in the cupboard (took them out their big clumsy ones)

They are actually from Uganda and painted on bark.  They are over 20 years old and there has been no fading.  I love the simplicity and shapes and colours.

The photo is not very good... each picture is just postcard size.  Clever I think.

Righto, Gotto Go..... job job...… and a visit to a park