It's time

It's time to reveal my wonderful Christmas prezzie - a floor to ceiling design wall - woo hoo!

I've managed to fit three of my current projects on there, AWS, Gossip in the Garden and blocks from my Value Proposition Quilt. With much inspiration and emailed instructions from Marian, hubby and I managed to make and install my very own design wall. 

Before....

Clearing out the sewing room was a challenege

During...

Laying out the batting

After...

Floor to ceiling bliss!

No more pinning into the blind...

 ...hanging up quilt sections on Ikea coat-hangers over the wardrobe...

 ...or trying to find enough floor space.

Yay!!! Lucky, lucky me :)

It was a bit of a struggle to construct as it took up the practically the whole floor space. I'm sure hubby was thinking 'Time for a break, time for a Kit Kat'.

I'm calling my latest Value Proposition Quilt block the Kit Kat block because of the red wrapper and chocolate brown colours.

It has also been time to get some more Antique Wedding Sampler blocks finished. I worked on this one during our latest G'nT Sisters retreat.

AWS Block #18

I was also very lucky to receive a beautiful Christmas angel made by my sister Judy - I don't know how she found the time to make this  - check out the amazing attention to detail.

  

I think she's too beautiful to hang up just at Christmas time, she might have to stay up all year.

And now it's time to wish everyone a Happy New Year and I hope 2016 is full of lots of stitchy goodness for you.

Merry Christmas from Melbourne

I now work in the heart of Melbourne and it's been fun seeing all the decorations each day.

There's even been some fabulous Christmas yarn bombing on the city's tree trunks.

I love this year's Myer Christmas windows display. It's based on a book about a dog getting lost in Melbourne set in the 50s/early 60s and includes such Melbourne icons as a tram...



...and Flinders Street station.

The dresses remind me of the ones my mother wore.

Wishing all my readers, followers and fellow blogging friends a safe and Merry Christmas. I'll be be back soon to show you my wonderful Christmas prezzie, something that any quilter would love - can you guess what it is???

Quilts in the Barn 2015

Judy and I visited Quilts in the Barn last Sunday where we greeted by Veronique's beautiful Isabelle quilt hanging in the entrance.

And there was another quilt by Veronique inside - Provence.

I loved these beautiful Warracknabeal Aunts quilts made from a huge stash of inherited hexies.

Beautiful Jo Morton fabrics and quilts filled the Barn.

And Mary Koval was there with some gorgeous antique quilts.

Read about when Judy met Jo on the G'nT Sisters blog.

I came with a home with a couple of fabrics for my blue and cream AWS.

Hope you enjoyed the show.

Carole