Lost Quilt!

This beautiful quilt (Charley's Cats) has gone missing.

It was made by my online friend Mary, who lives in Panama, as a surprise for for her daughter and two grand daughters, who live in Kentucky.

Here are some details.

Posted in a mailbox March 3, 2013 in Malibu, CA

Packaged in Priority Mail envelope with $6.00 in postage affixed

Addressed to Fort Wright, KY

Return address: Green Cove Springs, FL

Mary did label and sign it, but with a cloth label which would be easy to remove.

Please keep a look out for it and feel free to share this on your blog, Facebook Timeline or Twitter too

Mary and her daughter are desperate to get it back.

Thanks for reading.

In Limbo

Waiting for this to arrive from The Village Haberdashery, which I won in a giveaway hosted by Katy at I'm a Ginger Monkey

Photo courtesy of Katy at I'm a Ginger Monkey

This is basted, ready and waiting 

for this to arrive.

But when it did the thread had been cut so I'm waiting for a replacement from Aurifil.

And this

is waiting for this

Photo courtesy of Pippa Parsons

to arrive.

I'm surrounded by basted quilts and am getting impatient.

More soon.

Stolen Quilt!

Keep your eyes open!

http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2012/02/help-get-word-outanother-stolen-quilt.html

New Blog on the Block

and it's fascinating.

Click here.

Quilting Acronyms

That Mad Woman (aka Michele at With Hearts and Hands and a very dear friend) has compiled the most amazing list of quilting acronyms.

** UPDATE**

I've deleted the list as Michele keeps on adding to it!  She can't stop thinking of new ones!!!!

Click HERE for the most up to date list.

A hedgehog came to stay

and we talked non-stop for 24 hours (apart from sleeping)!

Thursday Catch Up

Trying to juggle umpteen UFO's, deciding what to do next and getting side tracked has been the name of the game this last week.

Finn's New Year's Eve Challenge has been giving me nightmares as I know I'm not going to achieve even 50% of my goals.   I'm:

1. quilting the Pink Stars quilt (sister is in hospital as I type this about to give birth to the quilt's recipient);


2. piecing together another Q4L quilt (No. 14).  Wanda at Exuberant Colour sent me a whole lot of strips which are brilliant for strings so I'm creating lots of red and white strings and having great fun sewing them together on this. She came home last week and apart from a slight hiccup in threading the bobbins and altering the tension to suit the fabric, she sews like a dream!  I love the dual speed button.  We found a 1/4 inch and quilting foot combined on EBay and that is now winging its way here from the US.  So once that arrives there'll be no stopping me!


3. I've also restarted Ab Fab in between quilting Stars.  I seem to have gone off it.  It doesn't hold the same excitement as it did before.  Hummmmmm.  Perhaps it will come back.

Last, but by no means least, look what arrived in the mail yesterday.



Oodles and oodles of fabric in all shapes and sizes.

I signed up for Quilt Pixies December Swap. By some flook I managed to get teamed up with Donna and wow did she come up trumps. Thank you so much Donna. I'm itching to get started, but my new no new projects rule is stopping that!

Quilts 4 Leukaemia Question

I don't know if you all remember, but sometime ago Jenni and Jen contacted Quilter's Quarter in the US and set up an arrangement whereby you purchased a gift certificate, QQ contacted me with the details and I was able to purchase fabric and batting for the quilts.

Quilter's Quarter have stopped doing gift certificates and I have been searching for another online shop who would be willing to take over.

I have found someone in the UK, but before I take the offer further I need to know if you'd all still be interested in continuing with this arrangement.  I know some of you got a bit frustrated with the QQ set up and, to be quite honest, they weren't exactly on the ball!

However, the new people are, and are willing to help so if you are still interested please leave a comment.

After all, its got to be a damn sight easier to donate this way than sending boxes of batting and fabric through the post :-)

PATCH'AMI Expose

Click on the link below and look out for the Amish quilt which I voted for.

Le Patchwork en Périgord

I won!

Kristin over at Knit One, Quilt Too was holding a giveaway for her 1,000'th comment - it was me!  Wooo hooo - first time I've ever won anything in blogland!



Some soap, some tea and lots of blocks to make log cabins perhaps?

Thank you Kristin - they are great!

Quilt No. 9

Quilt No. 9

Originally uploaded by dordognequilter

"Hi Clare
We all absolutely love the quilt and hope it will become a
keepsake for Terri in the future long after she can put all this behind
her. It really is beautiful. She arrived home on Saturday shortly
before we got there: Her white count is doing really well and although
she has had to go back to the hospital almost daily she is able to stay
out for now. She is on a concoction of drugs and obviously doesn't feel
well a lot of the time but was chatting and certainly glad to be home
again when we saw her. She has to have lots of tests and more chemo
over the next few months but was talking about future schooling and was
quite positive. This is particularly important given that one of her
friends died from an infection following a transplant just before Terri
had her own. My brother (her dad) took the attached photo and they are
happy for it to go on the blog.

Thank you again
Karen"

Blog Award

Violette at Hand Quilting very kindly gave me the Brillante Weblog Premio Award.



Thank you Violette

Goodies in the mail and a little plea for help

I've been meaning to show photos of the mini quilts I've been receiving, but kept on forgetting.

Here is a lovely hearts quilt from Anne.

These are the quilts hanginging on a piece of wall I found out of direct sunlight, which is not that easy in this house I can tell you.

Goodies received today from Hedgehog Jen.

I asked her if she could send me a couple of sticks of the liquorice she sent with her last lot of Leukaemia blocks. Little did I expect this amount and the gorgeous mini quilt.

And Moomin stamps too!

Jen you are so kind.  Thank you so very much.

Lots of blocks are winging their way to me from all four corners of the world.  I contacted the Dubai Quilter's Guild and Marianne, the current President, very kindly sent out an email to her members.  The response has been terrific.

A huge box of red and white blocks, strips, HST's and fabric arrived from Wanda yesterday and Carol over at Giraffe Dreams has issued a challenge to you.

Now the plea.

As much as I love receiving all the beautiful blocks and fabric, I do need batting.  I've got enough for probably another 3 quilts.  So if  anyone is interested in donating batting rather than blocks, please contact me and I'll give you the spec.

You have all been so marvellous for this cause and I'm sure if Sophie and Floyd were reading they would be amazed at the response.

Must toddle - chores to do and we have sun!

A+

There is life!

Haven't been doing too much these last few weeks, hence the silence. So I decided to get my head round some of those flimsies which have been building up.

Here is Bellatrix - finally finished.

Goes to show how much I've been doing in that Tonya's Class is still on the wall and has got to be put together!

As I type this, they have, at long long last, started cutting the hay.

Do you remember ages ago we had View from My Kitchen Window?

Well how about View from My Bedroom Window?

Here's mine.

If you look to the right, you'll see a new badge. It's for a new web ring - Liberated Quilters. Want to join? OK, but you must be "liberated".

Expo Patchwork 24 - Part II

Expo Patch 24 - Part I

Les Services culturels de l'Ambassade des Etats-Unis d'Amerique en France

présentent

Un Patchwork de Cultures

Une exposition itinérante de la Louisane vers la France

These are from the "American" Exhibition.

There are more of the "24" Expo which I'll post over the coming days.  Some fantastic scrap quilts and houses too.  The appliqué on some of them is just ........................................