Chequerboard goes to the Quilt Festival

  As I’m sure you know it’s the Bloggers’ Quilt Festival over at Amy’s Creative Side. It’s wonderful to see the huge variety of quilts that have been entered and the talent in quilt-blogland is sooooo inspiring! This is my offering. I made it last Autumn. It was my was my first ‘real’ quilt and, although […]

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Please Pick a Card!

It’s the eleventh hour! The eleventh hour, that is to join the  PLAY Mini Quilt Competition with Jenna at Sew Happy Geek. If you click on the button below you will find the rules and a list of fab prizes. I saw this competition a while ago and I’ve been following along with Jenna’s quilt, which […]

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The Power of Crowds

This blackbird, who has a nest in one of our hedges, has been happily singing in the rain a lot lately! But bad gardening weather is good sewing weather and I have an unexpected finish this week! It’s going to be my May entry for the Color Palette Challenge – and it’s finished two weeks early […]

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Spiralling Star

As you’ll know if you are a regular visitor to my blog, I am very committed to trying new things so I love TNT with Melissa Cory at Happy Quilting. And this week, for the first time, I attempted foundation piecing and making a spiral quilt. I have always been enthralled by both spiral designs […]

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scrappy yin yang

This is my submission piece for the April Color Palette Challenge. scrappy yin yang made from 1 inch squares This was the colour palette, selected by Vicki Welsh from Field Trips in Fibre and I did find these colours very challenging! For some reason the brown/orange combination is way outside my comfort zone. I thought I’d […]

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Colour My World Yellow

This month’s colour for the Colour My World Challenge with M-R at Quilt Matters is yellow, which I expected would be quite seasonal. Here are some very yellow photos I took in April last year… April in Pictures 2011 …but what has happened to Spring this year? I took these two photos yesterday… April 2012   […]

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Pernilla’s Parrots

Yesterday I finally finished piecing the top of my Happy Star/Pernilla’s Parrots picnic rug quilt and I tried to take a picture – but the wind had other ideas! I don’t know why it looks so giant, compared to Lucy here – it’s 65 inches square. Is that big enough or should I be adding […]

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Ruby goes to the Festival!

Have you linked up with the festival of half square triangles | linky party at Canoe Ridge Creations? I was wondering what I could make by Sunday (the closing date) and I realised I made this within the last six months and it is at least 75% hsts…   Ruby Butterfly   …so I’m off to link up!

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Curves and Curves…

This week I have two finishes – one old and one new. I’m linking the ‘new’, above, to QED at Color Me Quilty – Pat’s exciting new monthly linky party for embellished quilts. Tread Softly The ‘old’ finish is abysmal. In fact it was meant to be Abysmal – but not as abysmal as it turned out! abysmal waters Last […]

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