Finish number 16??

Actually, I'd better count how many finishes I have notched up for this year.... (okay, it's about 21, if I count 5 zippy bags as one finish and 3 little zippy purses as one finish...

Not much news to tell today really... (still going with My Stars) just posting a photo of the finished QuiltAid quilt for 2010.
It is hanging on the wall - the best way to obtain a photo. It's so soft and pretty. I wonder what fabrics will be chosen next year?

Lost: one miniature quilt

I've been absolutely flat chat the last few days. I've stayed up late a few nights in a row, and I can hardly even show you why!!

See this block with the smiling girl? That's me. Because I have finished this quilt!! This is the QuiltAid 2010 quilt. The theme is "The Greatest Gift", and I have named this quilt "The Greatest Gift - Friendship".

It's not a terribly good photo, I will snap a better one while it is hanging at the Vic Quilter's Exhibition this coming weekend.

I've been binding, adding hanging sleeves and looking for my miniature quilt. I entered the quilt into the exhibition, it was accepted, and I had it only 3 weeks ago. I turned everything upside down last night looking for the mini quilt - it's not even that small!!

But, I just couldn't find it in time. *sigh*

I just know it will turn up somewhere I have already looked.

There goes the $40 I paid for entry fees and judging feedback.

You can find out more about the QuiltAid programme by clicking the link on the sidebar.

Too busy to breathe!

Do you ever feel like that? So busy both mentally and physically you forget to breathe? Thank goodness for the subconscious.. in more than ways than one. Firstly, that part of my brain is organising the breathing thing, and then I felt a little stirring in the back of my mind...

After nearly 2 days looking through UFOs at home, and perhaps dabbling in them a little bit, I came back to work and thought... when is the QuiltAid quilt due? What? In only four days!!

So, I got really busy. I had already designed how to put together the 12 blocks, I just had to make it, testing out my pattern as I went.

Here is a rough photo of my quilt top! My DH has taken a good photograph of the quilt and photoshopped the binding on for me (Shhh.. don't tell will you?)

You can win all 13 patterns to make the quilt above by matching the block with the designer at Helen's blog. Click here to enter.

I also managed to squeeze in an entire day at the Australasian Quilter's Convention (ACQ). I met up with lots of friends, and came home so inspired.

In only a week I am going away on retreat for the weekend, so I am going to prepare lots of things to finish while I am away. YAY!!