Babushka Wednesday 9

Babushka Wednesday 8

This really is very best favourite of them.  Well I still haven't got that last one done so its one more till then.

Babushka Wednesday 7

Well 2 more to go before I need to get that last one made and do the borders. I'm wondering if I should sew them together as in the pattern or add some sashing between them.  hmm, if I do that I will have to decide what colour.  Any ideas would be welcome.

Babushka Wednesday 6

The centre block. The lace trim is hand made bobbin lace made by my daughter,  the one who the quilt is being made for should I ever finish it.

Babushka Wednesday 5

This is my second favourite, I love the little one.

Babushka Wednesday 4

These four small blocks have to be put together, its not my favourite set but maybe it will look better when its sewn together.

Babushka Wednesday 3

This is one of my favourites, it was my first except it didn't play nice. I love the colours,  It was the second one I made as the first one printed out to small but I didn't realise until I had finished it. This one had an accident when I dropped the pen so has a beauty spot.

Babushka Wednesday 2

I may add some lace to this one at a later date or maybe some loopy embroidery around the scarf.

Babushka Wednesday 1

I started well but like quite a few things its become a UFO.  All but one block is finished but then DD who collects Babushka and who its being made for said she wasn't keen on the border that was to go round it.   Its not that I'm blaming her for encouraging another UFO as I really didn't like it myself but I was all geared up for that border so each week you will see a block and by the time I get to number 10 it may be made and you never know I may even of started the border. I just have to plan it.   This was a  BOM from Angies Bits and Pieces in 2010

Scrap flowers to be quilted

Scrap flowers

Flowers were paper pieced then appliqued onto the machine pieced background.   Not sure when it will get quilted, maybe next year.

Lifes a hoot (bom 2010)

I love owls so on seeing this BOM at Angie's Bits and Pieces I was hooked.  the quilt was a bit big for a wall hanging as I don't have much wall space left but would of been a litttle  small for a cuddle rug so I enlarged the pattern by 20% then when my  computer died my scanner wasn't compatible with the new one so I had no way of printing the patterns the right size, Got a new scanner for Christmas but have delayed the making of owls to long so need the incentive to get back to them, with luck I should get some more owls finished soon.  I havn't yet decided how I'm going to finish it but may add some mushrooms or rocks to the bottom of the tree.   Well you'll see the tree when its finished

More of the Calender Quilt

Spring showers
Only block that I have so far managed to follow, well except for the flowers. every Spring garden has to have flowers, can't help feeling it needs something behind the fence or maybe a little blue bird sitting on it.

Problem with having so many interests is that its hard to know what I want to do at any given time. I have more UFOs then projects on the go and more ideas in my head than the both put together, it usually means I draw up the pattern, pick out the fabrics and so it goes on. Then theres the magazines, always something in them to be reproduced, they'd get finished quicker if I actually followed the patterns.

This one all started with an ATC swapped on Chains of Hearts with Wilma, (she knows who she is). It was blue, it coincided with a block in Magic patch 42 magazine. Magic Patch is to blame for much of my planning and mind wandering.  I’ve been getting it since issue 1 and only missed one. Wonderful mag but gives lousy instructions but since I never follow them anyway it doesn't really matter. The block was red and white, the quilt was to be red and white, a search in my fabrics, didn’t turn up enough red and whites to do more then a couple of blocks and this was suppose to have 12, but well you remember Wilma's ATC, I was sure it would look good in blue.

First blocks went well. I think December is a Christmas church with snow, the snow look had to go but since I haven't decided what month its to be the wreath became a window, not sure yet what I will do on the door but inspiration will come eventually.

January had a pair of skis in the front and since we do actually get some snow I built a snowman instead. January will have to become May or June and since I just uploaded the wrong block it could be May before you see it.

I was soon waiting for the next issue, 3 in it but with a note on the page saying pattern was wrong, issue 44 didn't have any in it 45 had one I don’t like and no promised pattern correction so I did my interpretation. February is definitely the right month, the rest are undecided as of now the count is 7, trouble is I have found a picture of the finished quilt on the web so may need some inspiration for more then one block, beach huts are just not Aussie and the note about keeping the scraps of fabric for the finishing of the quilt didn't say long strips, might have to have crazy blocks between each one, got an awful feeling it may become a UFO.



This is the school not very Australian but I like it, type you see in childhood nursery rhymes and story books still needs a bell and a sign, it did have a banner across the front but I replace it with some "iron trim"