Moore Patchwork & Quilting

Hatched and Patched goodies

Just before I went to Melbourne I bought a bundle of fat quarters of Anni Downs' new fabric line - Love to Garden.

As soon as I saw it appear on Anni's blog, I just knew I had to buy some.  I think the colours are great and my favourite is a lovely brown print with purple flowers on it.

I have a bundle of fat quarters and am thinking about using them in a quilt project next year. I think they will be perfect.

At the AQM Anni had her new block of the month Tillie's Lane on display. She's used all of her fabrics and as usual hand quilted it.  It is lovely of course and really shows her fabrics beautifully.

Hatched and Patched notepads....

At the AQM, Hatched and Patched also had some of their notepads on display. 

Each pad has 50 sheets of paper, and each one is decorated with an original design.

I think they would make great stocking stuffers for Christmas and so I bought a bundle and they are available on my website. There are 2 sizes - 6" x 4"; and 3" x 5".  (My favourite is It's a Girl Thing!)

Until next time

Lyn

 

 

 

 

New fabric

I bought this layer cake from one of my local patchwork shops - Patches of Indooroopilly - a couple of weeks ago.

It's a Collections for a Cause - Warmth.  It was a bit of an impulse buy and I haven't quite decided what to make with it. I had been planning a new design in my head and originally thought this fabric might be suitable but I've since decided that it isn't quite right. But I know that one day I will have a sudden brain wave and will know exactly what I will do with it. In the meantime I've left it sitting on my work table and every now and then I have a bit of a play with it.

I used a Collections for a Cause layer cake to make my House and Garden quilt.  I think that one was called Friendship and it had a lot of red prints in the range.  This one features a lot of blue (one of my favourite colours) and my favourite print is that one on top. 

 

Fabric Club....

Some more new fabric arrived in the form of my fabric club from Threadbear.

There's such a lovely mixture of fabric and my favourites are the fabrics on the bottom row.  I especially like the purple and yellow floral print at the front.  Very handy print to give a scrappy quilt a lift.

The fabric behind that is a great background print and the red behind that - a very pretty floral.

 I could go on and on with each print but will sum it up by saying I'm pleased with the lot!

Until next time

Lyn

 

 

Getaway stitching and fabric club

I've been stitching away on my Getaway design and started with the notebook cover.

I'm stitching the design in redwork with DMC 347 because it matched beautifully with the fabric I've chosen for the cover.

I'm a bit of a journal person myself.  In my journal I don't chronicle my daily life but tend to record things that inspire me or plans I have or just dreams which are sometimes wishful thinking!   Since dabbling in mixed media, my journal is part writing, drawing, painting, and collage.  My journal is like my everyday getaway!

On the cover of this one I'm stitching a suitcase as a symbol of what's inside - my dreams, goals, plans and memories.

Fabric Club....

I received another instalment of my 19th Century Fabric Samplings fabric club from Somerset Patchwork.

I was a bit surprised with this one because the fabrics are all black and cream. They are quite striking aren't they?

But, on close inspection I was really pleased with them. I find black gives a real 'lift' to scrappy projects in particular.  It's one of those 'zinger' fabrics.  I'm always on the look out for nice black fabric and this selection is a nice variety of prints.  I know I will definitely use them all.

The creamy/beige fabrics have black prints on them which makes them really valuable as well.

As usual I'm really pleased with this club and so glad I found it.

Until next time

Lyn

 

Road trip

Yesterday Mum and I went on a roadtrip up to Marcoola to visit Lynette Anderson's new shop - Little Quilt Store.

We had such a lovely day.  We spent more than an hour looking at everything in Lynette's shop.  It's full of all of her beautiful patterns and their samples.  Her fabric lines are there as well as some lovely reproduction fabrics and Tilda fabrics.  Mum bought a bundle of fat sixteenths of the reproduction fabrics and some hexagon papers and glue pen (after much convincing).  She was inspired by some of the lovely hexagon projects on display and is planning on making a few hexi bags. (Hope she gives me one.)

I bought a few fat quarters of the Secret Garden range of fabric; some ticking (always handy); and a motley linen fabric which looks tea dyed which will be perfect for stitching.  I also bought some Cosmo thread to try it out.  I haven't used it before but keep reading how good it is so I thought I would use it for a Christmas project - see how it goes.  One interesting thing that I bought was some wool felt ribbon.  I've never seen this before - it's almost like ric-rac but made of felt - and think it would be nice trimming a stitchery.

After our shopping visit we went to Coolum and ate fish and chips on the seashore. It was great.  So glad we went.  We decided that we will have to do it again in a couple of months.

Boots....

Have to show you this photo of my lovely Boots.

I have a pinkish coloured pullover that I wear around the house almost every evening. It's lovely and thick and keeps me warm on a paradise winter evening.  Anyway, it's Boots' favourite jumper.  He loves to sit on my lap in the evening and cuddle up to my jumper.  During the day I leave it on a chair in our bedroom and sometimes I find Boots sleeping on it.

I washed it the other day with a couple of other things and lay them out on a rack on the verandah of my studio to dry.  I was inside working away and happened to look out the window and there was Boots.  Contentedly sitting on my (wet) pink jumper.  He bypassed the blue one and the brown one and chose his favourite pink. The rack isn't a solid surface and I'm sure he must have been very uncomfortable but he sat out there for ages before he finally came inside - a very contentedly cat.

Until next time

Lyn

New Fabric and a book

I went to the local patchwork shop (Peppermint Stitches) to buy some Vliesofix and some thread and came home with some fabric and a book as well!

The fabric is Salt Air by Cosmo Cricket.  The shop has a quilt made from this fabric and the colours are summery without being bright.  They really do remind me of the beach - you know how it's kind of hazy on a summer's day with all the salt air from the waves breaking and heat from the sand. (Love the beach.)

I've had a project floating around in the back of my mind and this fabric will be perfect.  The green spotty fabric is my favourite so had to buy more of that one!

Peppermint Stitches also has a lovely book collection and I spied this one on the shelf.

Sweet and Simple Patchwork Gifts has 25 projects from quilts to bags.  Hexagons feature heavily with some lovely little hexagon bags that I have my eye on. There are also some projects featuring log cabin blocks - one of them is a really nice tote bag.  I think its a good addition to my library with lots of good ideas.

I never used to buy a lot of craft books.  I think for a while the prices were just too high but now they are much more affordable and more readily available I've started building up quite a collection. Whenever I have some down time or just want some inspiration I sit down with a cup of tea and browse my little library. I always come away feeling motivated and with at least one project floating around in my head.

I haven't started buying electronic craft books yet but keep thinking I should.  Just love the look of the books on the shelf in my studio!

Until next time

Lyn

 

New Fabric

Yesterday I visited a couple of our local patchwork shops and came home with some beautiful new fabrics.

My first stop was Peppermint Stitches and I spied some lovely new fabric from Kim Diehl. 

When I was going through my stash, I noticed that I'm really low on browns and greens in particular,  so the 2 brown fabrics in the front were my first choice.  I love the way she's mixed the pink and blue with the brown. I also couldn't resist the purple with the yellow flower - I always find purple fabric an essential in my stash. It's just a perfect zinger for a scrappy quilt.  I have to admit that the green wasn't really a favourite but it's a nice small print and will be handy.  The red and blue were just too nice to resist!

I then headed off to the Patchwork Tree and came away with some more lovely fabric.  The fabric on the front left is an Anni Downs fabric (it's actually light green) and the green one next to it is a Buggy Barn fabric.  Like purple fabric, I always find black is also essential in my stash - so that one just had to come home with me.  The pink fabric is from Barbara Brackman's 1862 Battle Hymn range.  Pretty isn't it?

Until next time

Lyn

More Fabric

On the weekend we had a friend visiting from Canberra and on Saturday we drove up to the Sunshine Coast.  On the way, I stopped in at Patchwork Angel.

I bought a bundle of fat quarters of Lynette Anderson's Summertime Friends range.

I had seen them on her blog but there's nothing like seeing them in person.

The colours are soft and muted.  I'm not sure what I will make from them yet but I'm vaguely thinking maybe a quilt would be nice?

I will leave them sitting on my work table for a while and play with them and maybe something will come to mind.

Our friend is an avid vinyl record collector - things like Beatles and Bob Dylan - so we stopped in at a shop in Nambour that sells all manner of things 'old'.

In the shop there are literally piles and piles of old magazines.  I couldn't resist buying this Life magazine dated December 17 1956.  It's just amazing to look back and see what was happening then.

The world has certainly changed that's for sure. The ads were very revealing.  Did you know that back then 'Doctors recommend smoking' (that's what one ad said) ? If only they knew then what we know now?

There's also a lovely double page spread on a society wedding.  The gowns were just beautiful.

And current events of the time including the civil unrest (is revolution a better word?) in Hungary and the struggle over the Suez Canal. It made fascinating reading and next time I go to Nambour I'm going to buy another copy of the magazine.

Until next time

Lyn

More Fabric

I know someone who is due to have a baby in December and I've been thinking about making her a cot quilt.  I have a bit of an idea of what I want to do so on Friday I went to Peppermint Stitches to see about some fabric.

 They have such beautiful fabric that I just couldn't resist buying 2 lots. 

I settled on Little Apples charm pack for the cot quilt.  They have some of the prints on the roll as well so I think I will be able to get away with a charm pack and then buy some more fabric for the borders, etc. This range has been around for a while and I think it's delightful.  I guess I was just waiting for a project to use it in.

I've also had my eye on Countdown to Christmas fabrics.  I hadn't planned on making anything for Christmas but these fabrics are just so nice I just had to buy a layer cake.  This morning I spent some time thinking about what I will make and I'm pretty sure I'll make a table centre and some placemats. Mine need updating badly. Will see anyway.

Until next time

Lyn

Beautiful Fabric

The postie delivered another fabric club instalment from Threadbear Quilters and as usual I'm really pleased with the selection.

I was only lamenting to myself the other day that I lacked some nice reds and pinks and was very happy to see just that in this month's fabric club.

I had a lot of trouble trying to pick my favourites but I think the first red one on the top row and the first pink on the bottom row are my choice.

I also really like the brown and pink one just peeking out on the second row. 

Aren't they beautiful?

More Fabric...

A couple of weeks ago I bought a pack of fat eights from Lynette Anderson.

I can't remember the name of the range but the theme is 'sewing'.

The colours are really fresh and I love the prints.

The problem I'm having is that I just can't decide what to do with them. I've had them sitting on my work table since they arrived and every now and then I rearrange them but I still haven't come up with anything!

I'm really keen to use them so hopefully inspiration isn't far away!

Until next time

Lyn

Ruby

Look what arrived in my mail box yesterday -

a layer cake of lovely Ruby fabric designed by Bonnie & Camille.  I've had my eye on this fabric ever since I saw it on Camille's blog.  I really loved the Bliss range of fabric and this one complements it perfectly. I had debated about whether to buy the layer cake or the charm squares but in the end thought that the size of the layer cake pieces will be more useful. 

I'm going to use this fabric for a quilt incorporating my Love Is.. stitcheries. I have some Bliss fabric and will combine it with this Ruby fabric.

Hopefully it will be very pretty.

Footy over (almost)...

Have to admit that I am pleased to see the end of the footy season.  As much as I enjoy watching the games I think the season goes on for a really long time.  I am however looking forward to the World Cup (rugby) matches coming up.  They are getting down to the 'business' end now. To be honest, I'm not confident about our chances - I'm really trying hard to be positive but so far our matches have been disappointing.  Hopefully they've left the best to last.

Until next time

Lyn