Muddy Colours

Raggy Rose is finished now and all wrapped up ready for her train trip. Unfortunately neither dh or ds would carry her on the train so she could enjoy the journey, she HAS to go in the bag or she would not be going I was told.....

She is meant to have a lace doily thing on her chest with a suffolk puff and button on top of this. The children and I decided that her dress was too pretty to cover up with this, we preffered her without it. Also other suffolk puffs were meant to be on her shoes and one in her hair, nah she is fine the way she is!

Some of my scraps left over from making A Gardeners Journal quilt.

My finished quilt top yesterday. The lighting in the photo doesn't do the quilt justice, maybe I will get a better pic when it is quilted.
I am so so SO pleased to have this quilt top finished!

I have also finished off a little swap gift to take to GDITC at Nundle in March.

Stitcheries and Doll Heads

This is the last block I have to stitch for Gardeners Journal quilt. earlier in the year I had three blocks completed, then fractured my foot and was able to complete most the stitcheries but wasn't able to put the blocks together. Just after christmas I spent about half a day piecing the blocks, got carried away with joining the blocks up and am now VERY impatient to have this last block stitched and added on so I can put the borders on!

At times it did feel like I had a mountain to stitch, but like mountains when you get there the feeling is just great! Can't wait to quilt this....

Now that Gardeners Journal is almost finished I can pick up the stitchery project I just started when the Stitch A Long came along. This is Little Patchwork Village by Rosalie Quinlan Designs. I raided my stash and have a lovely pile of reproduction fabrics to make the quilt up in. The threads I am using are the Valdini three strand that I got from Anni at The Home Patch. They are beautiful to work with; and though it isn't much trouble to separate the DMC threads it is nice to not do it for a bit.

Chookyblue has a new project for the StitchALong for this year, Natalie Birds gorgeous christmas book, but I won't be joining in with this as I want to get Little Patchwork Village finished and also have an older BOM that I want to get done that has alot of applique and stitching in it.

Aunty has been meeting up with other stitchers in her area and she tells me that she will be joining in with this StitchALong and will be working on it at their weekly get togethers....sounds so lovely! Aunty has another big job this year, she is coming to visit before/after we go to GDITC at Nundle and will be sorting/helping me to sort out my fabric kit to make up McKenna Ryan's 'Back to the Farm' quilt (the same one she has been making at classes). I ordered this kit last year from Hancocks of Paducah (who sell these kits for McKenna's new quilts at a great price) and Aunty joined her local patchwork shop to make the quilt; then we compared notes and realised we both wanted to make the same quilt!

This face is Raggie Rose and she needs to be finished before Tuesday as she is off for a full day on the train to Sydney to go to her new home. I bought her as a kit from Katkin Designs. Gorgeous dolls.

Gifts I sent

This is what I sent to Leanne from the online Friends in Stitching group. She loves reproduction fabrics and stitcheries so I made a table topper with repro fabrics and put in a Hatched and Patched stitchery kit. Since Christmas I have seen that Leanne does stunning quilting work so I hope she doesn't mind my ditching.

The angel ornament above was sent to Carole in the US for Chookyblue's SSCS.

and this was Carole's present; a small quilt, a Hatched and Patched small wall hanging kit and an Aussie teatowel. Like Leanne, Carole does stunning quilting - must pick my game up!