Calling All Thimble Collectors

While looking at Blogs this morning I came across a photo of an old Printer box full of thimbles that Hanne has collected. When I saw this I became a bit excited and came up with an idea!!

Photo borrowed from Hanne's blog

The reason for my excitement was because I knew what was in my garden shed.

After scruffing around in all our "not-being-used" things I found my own old printer box in all its glory...complete with decorative cobwebs.
It seems a shame to store the box in the shed, so I thought I might start collecting thimbles too....

(I hope you don't mind if I copy your wonderful idea Hanne?)

So my idea is this....
Is anyone interested in a thimble swap? I would send you a Tasmanian thimble and you could in return send me a thimble from your home place, town or country.
Let me know if you are interested !!

A Tisket A Tasket baskets

All my baskets are full and completed!! I am thoroughly enjoying this free BOM supplied by Anne at Bunny Hill Designs...Thank you so much. I am making my blocks using Winsome fabric and the whole effect is very gentle and pretty!

Only a few days unitl the next block is posted. If you are interested in this pattern click on the button on my side bar and it will take you to Anne's blog.

Hobart Craft Fair

Saturday saw Meredith, Leanne,Christine and myself up bright and early so we could attend the Stitcher's and Craft Fair.

We had our mandatory coffee and pastry at Banjoes at Campbell Town and then drove on to Hobart where we spent about 2 hours wandering around the stalls and quilt exhibition. The fair was a bit disappointing this year, with only a few good quilting stalls. Lots of beads, stamps and scrapbooking stalls for those so inclined.

I did mange to buy a couple of things though....

What visit to Hobart would be complete without a visit to the wonderful Quilted Crow shop? We visited with the lovely Deirdre and I purchased a little more fabric for my Dear Jane and the Easter Googies Cone kit that I have admired everytime I have been to the shop of late.

I also picked up my first block for The Quilt Aid quilt.
My first block is the one designed by Tassie's own Helen Stubbings. The block is just gorgeous and is called Bluebird of Hope.

QuiltAid is infact Helen's love child and she deserves a tremendous applause for all of her hard work....it surely is for an amazing cause!

A Tisket, A Tasket

Well the holiday is over.... and I am back at work!! Crafting has ground to a slow crawl...

At the weekend I did manage to spend time getting my Tisket/Tasket blocks ready to stitch. I am blanket stitching them but have decided it is time to get over my fear of needle-turn applique. The blanket stitching looks good and I enjoy doing it, but needle-turn looks much more effective. So the next project I need to applique I am going to needleturn and not stress out too much if you can see a stitch or two.

These blocks are just so cute...I can imagine a very sweet cot quilt being made from them...just have to find a very sweet baby to make it for....

Noah's Ark

As some of you know I have a Noah's Ark addiction, so when Lynette Anderson offered a free Noah's Ark Block of the Month last year I could not resist. I deligently kept up for a whole 3 months and then just collected the next 9 blocks, putting them carefully in the cupboard...as you do!!

As I am on holidays I decided that this would be a manageable WISP to complete this week...so here it is....
Excuse the bad photography, its winter and the light is not good, hence the photos are not good...

And here it is framed and hanging on the loungeroom wall.....

Busy Stitching Weekend!

This weekend is the Queen's Birthday Long-Weekend in Tasmania and I have been a right sloth. I have sat on the couch, stitched, played in the Sewing-room and watched the entire first season of House...24 - 40 minute episodes...

I did force myself to go for a walk this morning,only because I had a huge case of couch butt and stitchers' back!!

So what did I do??

I looked through my Dear Jane book ...yes I have joined the thousands of mad women around the world working on a Baby Jane Quilt!

I finished the very first block-A1. (yes it is in reverse...)

Found my Noah's Ark quilt, and did a lot of the stitcher's. I did infact finish all of the stitcheries and will share the finished quilt top tomorrow... you can see how much I have stitched...these are all now completed... WOW!! (even I'm impressed)

I had a play with my Wonky Houses from Lurline's Wonky House swap...couldn't decide what to do with them so put them away again....
The blocks are from lots of Aussie ladies...Lynda, Anne, Mistea, Narelle, Shari, Peg and Erin....thank you ladies, your blocks are lovely.

So best get back to the couch...Season 2 is calling me.Have you ever seen House with Hugh Laurie in it...it is very funny, he is so sarcastic and rude in a funny sort of way...

Birthday Quilts

Another "Ruth's Quilt" has been completed....the quilt top anyway.

The top is pieced and ready for quilting! This year I am trying to make quilts for my 2 neices for their birthdays. Ruby had her birthday in April and Issi's birthday is in August. As the girls are going to eventually share a bedroom their Mum decided she would like matching quilts.

They will look very pretty on their beds I'm sure!