Past Flickr Doll Quilt Swaps Sent.

Reading Lynne's blog the other night prompted me to follow her example. Its Flickr Doll Quilt Swap time again, round 9??!! I have been playing along since Round 3 back in April 2008. I've been a Mama for Rounds 4,5,6,7 and 8 which involves a lot of behind the swap doors emailing and stuff. Round 9 I'm going to help out on the group blog, but otherwise I'll be a good bebe!

Here is a wrap up of the last 6 rounds of quilts I have made. I have a habit of making two as I can't bear to post one away and its nice to have a little reminder of the work you have put it. (And also if you stuff up one, you have a backup quilt! LOL)

Round 3 was my first round. No pressure as my swapee was the lady who organized it! The lovely Tanaya. This little quilt became the inspiration for my one and only published quilt!

I made these two for Round 4. I kept the one with the red binding on the right and the other went to Tine in Denmark.

For Round 5 this one went to the other side of Australia to Kellie.

Round 6 saw me only make one..... Can't remember why!

Round 7 saw me back in a flying geese rainbow mood and I made two again, one for me, one for Terrie!

This one for Round 8 earlier this year went to Mandy's welcoming home. Bring on Round 9!!!

DQS# 8 from Isabel.

More lovely fabric mail today. My dolls quilt from the DQS#8 from Isabel finally arrived. All the way from Portugal! Her stitches are lovely, all so even, my first thought was why aren't my stitches like that! Love the soft colour gradation, very elegant. Thanks Isabel. :)

Bring on the Round 9 hey?

My DQS#8 Angel Quilt.

Amongst all the presents and cards for Grace in the mail yesterday there was a parcel for me! My quilt for the recent DQS#8 is still coming in the mail, so the lovely Anita organized an Angel Quilt in the meantime that she had made herself. Its just perfect, I love it!

Her stitches are perfect, all the same length! Very envious, wonder what type of machine she has? Thank you so much Anita, it was worth the wait. I'm happy. :)

Flickr Doll Quilt Swap #8 Finished!

Well the football starting and the new blow up pool in the backyard kept all members of the family amused enough today for me to finish sewing the binding down on my two dolls quilts for the flickr swap.

This is the one I was talking about yesterday with the yellow variegated thread and the purple variegated thread.

The back looks pretty crazy!

The other one I quilted a bit more subtly. Just used yellow here, no stipple and stars, just a wavy line, to look like wind? I'm thinking of quilting Matilda's Wonky Houses like this when it is done. Got the inspiration from this beauty here.

So all I have to do now is sew a label on the back. I am hoping my partner will make a comment over at flickr on which one she likes....

FMQ Action!

My new darning foot purchased off ebay arrived yesterday afternoon, perfect timing for a long weekend! So I put aside my wonky houses and turned back to the flickr DQS#8. The deadline is fast approaching. I've gone a bit crazy and done tall swirls supposed to be grass, maybe?! Stars and stipple inbetween. Used a yellow variegated thread at first and then that wasn't giving it enough omph, so added some purple variegated too.

I've got the binding on, just need to sew it down and pop the label on, then all done!

WIP Wednesday - Free Motion Quilting Chickens.

I think my sewing machine may be cross at me. Sulking from being in a packing box too long. I can't get the auto threader thingy to work at all. But more importantly, my darning foot has just died. How can it?? I thought feet were supposed to last forever? It sort of pulls the foot foward which causes the needle to go straight down onto the foot and break. Not good. But funnily enough if I leave the feed dogs up, it will work, sort of. Gives a rough FMQ line. Which is perfect for this quilt for the Flickr DQS#8 as that is the look I was after to go around the chickens in.

I added the border and will bind this one in a black and white dot. I want to FMQ the yellow, I need smooth lines for that bit so I am currently waiting for a new darning foot via ebay.

I still can't shake the urge to make two of these quilts when I do a swap. This is the second one. One for my wall, one for my partners!

WIP Wednesday - DQS#8!

I have unpacked the sewing machine at last and made a late start on my dolls quilt for the Flickr DQS #8! I have the perfect partner, she just said "quilter's choice" so I thought I'd make something I would like to make. Unpacking all my quilting books last week got me reacquainted with this book and so I thought I would make a quilt based on the front cover which I love!

So I got out the girl's textas and drew up a sketch. Milly had a go at drawing it too!

Not bad for a 5 year old!

This is what I have so far. I am torn between loving it and thinking ekkk, what will my partner think!