Another hobby

I've been oogling the many knitting and crochet blogs around lately and decided to jump in and give it a go myself - crochet that is. So that means getting a big bag full of wool!


I went a bit silly at Spotlight today and bought 18 different colours of 100% Australian Wool. This stuff is normally $2.99, as a VIP member I got 20% is why I travelled to a different store to get a couple the first store didnt have. And after all that travelling, still need both cream and white, a couple more greens and a brighter yellow. I am being thaught by a friend on Thursday and can't wait!

Pile 'o' Blocks

Finally finished all the blocks for this quilt - all 180 of them. This is going to be a HUGE quilt.

Choqua?

This will be a gift for a friend who was crazy enough to abandon me and move to Melbourne, where I am told it can get 'cold'.


Would you describe it as blue, mocha and coffee? I already have a border picked out from Denyse Schmidt's Katie Jump Rope range.

And just to show I haven't given up on the hand piecing here is a little preview of Block 3. Gnomes!

I'm going to have to be a bit more careful where I put it though, it got splattered with soup during dinner tonight!

Nice skirt!

I cannot take the credit for this though, Mum made it. She was even nice enough to send back the scraps (which have already been put to use)! The fabric is by Valori Wells.


Not the most flattering photo due to photographer lying on a chair and not willing to move to get a better photo, unshaven legs and the fact I'm wearing my pj singlet... I'll take better photo's later in the week Mum.

Another block bites the dust

On to block 3!

Scrap Queen!

I started this in my Scrap Queen Odyssey Class with Brenda Geal Smith at AQC a couple of weeks ago. This was a very very enjoyable and relaxing class, and over the course of the day I had pieced a lot of scraps together. I was piecing them all into long strips about 20 to 24 inches long (as thats how long my cutting mat and ruler are) And this entire thing is scraps. Even the colourful Kaffe Fassett fabrics came from the previous days class.


And despite the bad photographs appearence, it isnt curving in, thats just poor photography skills. What this photo may point out to you though is that the left side is about an inch higher than the left side, so I need to do some unpicking to get the right side up a bit. And there is still a little bit to add on the right but I am pretty proud of this considering what I started with!

Tesselations

Sorry, a wee bit of illness knocked me out for a little while, but I do have some hand piecing to show for it!

This is block one of possibly 9 or 12 hand pieced blocks I am making.


The quilt only calls for nine but I am having so much fun making them (and have so much fabric to make them!) that I am thinking of making more.

This is block number 2 however I am not sure about what triangles to put around the outside, so I'm auditioning fabric here. I think I might need to start block 3 while I ponder this one.


PS. Thank you to all the ladies who have been making comments, I have tried to reply to thank you except not many people leave me email addresses to get back to! (This includes you Carmel!) So then I track down blogs but for some reason my comments haven't been getting published or I'm not allowed to even publish the comment. Hmm, hopefully my problems wont continue though!

Home again home again..

I'm back from the AQC with lots of goodies! Now at this point in time I would have loved to have shown you some pictures from the event but I was very bad with my camera, and did not take many photo's at all. Ooops.

Here is what I bought. This first pile comes from a lovely shop called Amitie

And then there is this assortment, bought from many different shops at the AQC itself.

And this little pile was a wonderful and unexpected Christmas gift from one of the ladies I was down with. The buttons sitting in the bowl came all the way from an antique store in Vienna!
Anyway as I don't actually have photo's of the work I did while I was away I will hopefully be back in a few days with some! (and hopefully one of them will be on its way to be finished!)