My oh my, I have an April finish!!!!!

…and the worst thing is, I finished it a couple of weeks ago, and I just haven’t gotten around to posting about it!!!

This is a mystery quilt I made in an online forum from the Quilt Pattern Magazine, which I subscribe to….it’s A Winter Mystery Quilt, but even living in the tropical north of Australia, my mind reads ‘Christmas”……subliminal brainwashing perhaps????

Well, I started this last year with the intent on having it done for Christmas, but……………….  well, you know the rest?   It got to the part where you had to use the blocks to design your own pattern and well…….I just kept those little bitty blocks in their crisp plastic packets didn’t I????

I finally got up the nerve to tackle the designing process and here is the result….

Finally I get to show you a finish of my own!

Sugary hugs xox :O)

Christmas table topper

This table topper was almost a finish for last year.  The blocks were from a Christmas Ornament block exchange for members of the Creative Quilting Forum in 2008.  The fabrics I have sashed them in, and the border fabrics  were from a noodle swap from about the same time or even earlier, with the same forum’s members. 

Before last Christmas I had sewn the blocks together and – well I remembered that I had started the quilting.  When I pulled it out this month I was pleasantly surprised to find that I had finished quilting it and had put on the binding. It was just waiting for the handstitching, and a label to be made. 

Now it is finished and waiting to be used at Christmas this year.  It will be so good as all the blocks are signed by the makers, so holds lots of memories.