SCQIS Advent swap

For my friend Marell this year I am giving her and Advent swap. This is where you make up a gift of 24 little gifts and 1 larger one. I then sent it to a lady who in return will send Marell a parcel. She then gets to open a present every day until Christmas day. Today I finished the coasters I had made. I joined Mellie to the $2 swap and myself to the $5. The square coasters are for Marelle's swap back and front shown and the 'Allsorts" (6) are for my swap.

QNF Sampler swap

I promised myself that I wouldn't join anymore swaps... Ha! I am addicted. I have just joined a Sampler swap with QNF. This month was 9 patch. I was going to do the same block for everyone than emails went down on where to look for each persons favoutite colours. The birthday list. I don't know about anyone else but I use my Birthday colours to stock my stash with fabrics I don't have and then I get others ideas on differnt fabics. My next Birthday swap I have asked for WOW Batik. I haven't seen any just saw an email about it and thought "Oh yes.. I want that". The US get ranges of fabrics much quicker than us in Australia so what better way to get in first... :-)

For this swap I have used: Blue for Connie; Patriotic for Dom; Brights for Nicki; Asian for Sarah and Red/Brown for Virginia. I really hope they like their blocks.

Rowroundrobin 'Add A Block'

This week I received my Add A Block home. I did the block in the bottom right hand corner and used Dolphins as my themes. I was very happy with the blocks I received... all types of quilting from a Mariner's Compass from Lesley to embroidered dolpins from Sue and another lady not even in the swap. I can't wait to get it together. Shenay my niece whom this is for will just love it.

QNF Wedding block

QNF is running a 'Make a Block' for Pooks wedding. I received the 3 patterns and the 4 fabrics last week. I found making this block a little challenging.. not in the block making but how to wangle the fabric I received to fit the block. Of course you never get enough fabric to do the block as designed. Well I am very happy with how my block turned out but it isn't exactly the same as Quilterscache have the colours.

Butterfly swap

I haven't been doing very much quilting over the past few weeks. That is not to say I don't have things to do. I am currently working on Christi's tiger face. That is taking a while to do. I did finish my 5 butterflies for the Butterfly swap with Swapping to Friendship, Janine is running. Janine lives in my area but on the other size of Wagga Wagga to me. I will be travelling that way in December so will check the road map and see if I can catch up with her.
Here are my butterflies.

Round Robin

Today I have been busy working on Lynne's Round Robin. I thought it looked a little oriental and I wanted to continue with the colour changing theme. I appliqued a lotus flower in the corner and added some pinwheels starting from light and going to dark. I used oriental fabric in the darker pinwheels but I don't have much oriental stash and it is a long way to the fabric shop, so I just used the few I had. I then used a different blue as I went around to add the increase in colour as well. Don't know if I got it correct but I hope Lynne likes it.

Theme Swap

I have just come back from 2 weeks with my beautiful grandson Jet. I got to babysit him for one day while his parents worked and also they had a date out on Saturday, some thing that don't have very often. A little romance...lol... they went and saw Batman at the movies so how romantic was that. I can't believe how well behaved the little guy is. His parents are excellent parents I am so proud of them both, but especially my son as he didn' have a father himself.

On my arrival home, I had heaps of wonderful theme swaps waiting and have spent the weekend just working on them all. Now I am up to date I can get back to my Round Robins.

My first theme is Helen's Sea Life. She used blue and yellow blocks. The blue were for the fishes etc and the yellow was for sand coral etc. As most people had used the blue blocks I went for the yellow and did some coral and starfish.

Then I did Sabrina's Herloom. I did a Pansy as most people love Pansies but in hindsite I should have done a chair or basket of flowers. I wanted to do a fan but thought Lorraine might like to do that so I left it.

Next came Lesley's 'Dress the Ladies'. I decided it being an Olympic year I had better do something Olympic again. You can see I love the Olympics so I did an Australian Netball player.

With the severe storm last night I did Lesley's swap before Ruth's as I didn't want to use the computer with all that horrid lightening. I think it is easier doing a swap for someone you know rather than a stranger. I did a bottle of Champagne for Ruth's '21st Birthday' swap for Christi.