20 quilts this year...

Well, the 20 quilts include small wallhangings.. and this also includes some UFO quilt tops that were completed.

I have three things with hardly anything to finish on them (funky monkey, Mrs Perkins and the peg bag). It just isn't going to happen today.

I pulled out 7 wheelbarrows of weeds today (two days ago I pulled out another 8 wheelbarrows full of weeds) and planted 9 plants into the cottage garden in our rose circle. Tomorrow I need to pull some flowering broccoli out of the vegie patch to put in some spring onions and zucchini (the broccoli has stopped the weeds taking over).

I hope I will be able to start the finished projects for 2009 list very soon.

I have some great news! I mentioned I was a cover girl, but I didn't say what it means!

Remember this quilt?

Here is another view!

Can you imagine how excited I was to find out it was on the cover!!

You will find instructions to make my quilt in the Down Under Quilts yearbook (issue 128, January 2009).

Plus seven pages about me with some quilts seen on here already, plus some others you haven't seen before.

My phots are a little bit blurry. I took them without the flash to ensure there was no reflection. You will have to buy the mag if you want a better look!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Luxembourg in Down Under Quilts

Down Under Quilts have a completely new look on the cover and new formatting inside.

Doesn't it look great?

You can see my project "Luxembourg"published in the December edition!!! Find out how to make it in the mag!!!

Click here for a free digital 6-month subscription to the magazine.

Old news

Yesterday's post was old news! It turns out that was last month's magazine. Down Under Quilts also sent me a copy of the latest issue (126).

This time the featured quilts are Star Quilts. Andrea's precisely pieced blue and white quilt is featured in the article. (It won second prize at Kilmore Kwilter's blue and white challenge last month).

This is the quilt I made with the Jane Austen fabric. Do you remember I mentioned walking into a nearby quilt shop and seeing the fabric then phoning my friends?? I walked out with some of each bolt!!! Andrea, Rosie, Sandra and I divided up the fabric.

Jane Austen's quilt is made of pieced diamonds. That's why I wanted mine to look like it had diamonds in it (it doesn't, they are triangles). Sandra has appliqued in the centre of large diamonds, and Andrea has made the centre of her lonestar. Rosie decided to make four-patches with applique along the top. She is yet to complete the applique.

This is not the end.. there will be more in print later on. It's very exciting!!! VBG.

In print

It's amazing enough to see your name in a respected quilting magazine, but to have a photo of your original quilt take up almost an entire page... !!! Down Under Quilts periodically ask SCQuilters if they have made quilts within a particular theme.

Here is my Dick and Jane quilt photographed for a kids quilts feature article. After designing several quilts on EQ this is the design I liked best. Mum quilted tricycles with streamers hanging from the handlebars all over it.

Andrea also has a quilt in the same issue!! These are 1930s fabrics in an Irish Chain format, but the large squares are not plain - they have patterned fabric in them.

French Collection quilt update: I am appliqueing the stems on the 4th corner. So, after that there are 3 corners to finish the fleur de lys, then leaves to go onto the stems.