SCQIS Advent swap

As I have mentioned before I am in an Advent swap with SCQIS where you parcel up 25 gifts for your Advent Angel and in return you receive 25 gifts. You get to open 1 present a day and the value of this swap is $2-3 with a $15 final gift. I have participated in this swap for several years now and have really enjoyed myself so this year I decided to give one to my girlfriend for christmas. Needless to say I have been very busy making things as 10 items must be handmade. Well I finished my 10th handmade item and my final gift. These mice are suppose to have 'grub roses' along the side but I am not good at making these so I opted for Lazy daisys...
My final gift is the easiest bag I have ever made. I saw a friend with it and really liked it. She put an extra button on hers as she didn't want anyone being able to get into her bag so I did it as well. I am very pleased with it and will now make another to put in my own Advent swap

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Tumbaweeds - Christi's Round Robin

When I received Chrisit's Round robin, I just loved it. It was in my colours and ones I like working with. I then sat and read what she expected to see on her quilt and who the quilt was for and their likes and dislikes. She said the quilt was for her mother and yellow roses were her favourite flowers. After looking at the quilt I felt the yellow in the centre represented a yellow rose so that was the main focus of my round. I wanted to do pieced roses but I spent 7 hours and ended up with 1 rose so I gave that a miss and went back to my applique. I used fairy frost given to me in a Secret Santa last year and currently my favourite fabric and after rummaging through my stash I can up with the small amount of Japanese Kimino fabric. How excited I was as Christi's mum is Japanese. I still have a brown paw to put in the corner but after that it is finished.

Drink Coasters

Well I have been so busy lately making these 92 drink coasters for Christmas presents that I was sick of making them. I had to push myself for the last 2 sets. I hope the effort is appreciated. Add with the 2 bars of soap we normally get... should make a nice gift...

SCQIS Picture Swap

Today I have been busy, still making the 26 sets of coasters needed for the Christmas Present I stupidly offered to do. I still have 2 more sets to do so I took a break to make my backing for the Picture Swap. I have decided to do Egyptian and Arabian Nights. I will use this block as the centre of a quilt. Might go as a Round robin or do an Egyptian gods theme swap and put them around it... see what happens when it comes home. The backing turned out completely different to what I envisaged.

Tumbaweeds - Christi's Tiger Faces

I have finally finished Christi's Tiger Faces. This was my last block for this swap as I patiently wait for mine to come home. I found this a very taxing block to do as Christi wanted it to be 3D. A lot of hours and work went into the block. Another swap finished. A new one starts.

The Quilting Sisters - round robin

As I said before I have had busy little fingers today and as well as finishing Lorraines Food block I also finished Dianne's Round Robin. I was not in this round but offered to do some so the Robin could go home. I found the RR very green and orange..lol.. what did I do... green and orange. I did the final two rounds. I felt the quilt was too small just adding 1 round. I hope Dianne likes it. I did see this quilt at the 2nd round so it was interesting to receive it for its final round.

No to my suffix puffs.

Tumbaweeds - Aussicans swap

I have had busy little fingers today. Lorraine popped in and visited our lovely ladies in South Australia on Thursday so she is just around the corner from home. I didn't want her arriving home and me still not finished her swap. Well I got stuck into it today and did Gingerbread Men. This is a lovely swap and now finished and ready to go home.