Sampler Blocks.....

The last of the sampler blocks are finished....

Garden Trail

Card Trick (but I think it looks like hearts!)

Maple Star

spot the mistake... I have it out for some reverse stitching....

Arrowhead....

Streak of Lightening

And here they are all together.....

I have put these blocks away to work on later... sashing and a couple of borders to go... I have a December deadline so the pressure is off .............

Righto, Gotto Go.... I seem to have several piles of 'blocks' to be sewn together... 

(much shaking of head....)

editors note....... 

.... see..... I did fix it..... isn't it annoying that I only noticed it when I put the pictures up on a blog post?

Pattern is from Jelly Roll Sampler quilts by Pam and Nicky Lintott

Fabric is Paris Flea Market

detail of other blocks can be seen HERE and HERE

Block party.....

Seems to be a bit of a block party going on at my house....

For the last few years I have been taking part in swapping blocks over HERE where we are allocated a partner and make each other a block according to requirements.... (anyone can join)

These are blocks I collected in my first year and have only now put them together.....  there are a couple more but they are very different so I will include them in something else....and because of the number of blocks it was long and thin so I added some rainbow charms to the sides.....

I'm not sure if I will add borders.. what do you think?

In the meantime I have great organisation going on at my sewing table for my jelly roll sampler quilt.....

perhaps I will just have a slice of cake.... I'm quite famous round these parts for my superior glossy icing....

(sorry I can't share the recipe.... family secret!)

...... back to the blocks - these are my latest towards my Paris Flea Market Jelly Roll Sampler...

Rolling Pinwheel

Union Square

Spiral

just delicious fabrics.. this will be a pretty pretty girly quilt....

I've saved the best set of blocks for last.... this is grandiegirl 3 years old design....

....apparently she wanted to make something like Nana does.....

Righto, Gotto Go..... fine weather outside for sewing inside today.... 

A fun day.....

I worked on a couple more of my sampler blocks this morning....  trying to keep going whilst the motivation is hot hot hot for them...... I am enjoying these Paris Flea Market fabrics more and more - I guess I really am a lacy pretty pretty kind of girl ...

Then I went off to Toowoomba's huge big Agricultural event "Farmfest" .... land of big trucks, big dust, big mud and all sorts of other big farming thingies.....

Hubz wasn't working there today but I caught up with someone special....

Narelle was down to look at all the big farming thingies with her husband... so she dumped him with the dogs (literally - can you believe that????) and we went and put our feet up and had a cuppa coffee then a wander and lots of lovely chit chat... 

You can tell in this picture I am a lacy, pretty, pretty kinda girl can't you.... we both are.....

Tonight we both can stitch whilst our relevant Hubz's are watching the most important State of Origin footy stuff game 

I am going to continue with playing with these 1/2" hexies....

I am was neither a hexie maker nor a hand quilter but these are really quite fun

 Righto, Gotto Go... footy plus cold weather means some lovely seafood laksa is required....

A new project.....

I have never done a sampler quilt .....

Sue has done some lovely ones and is doing another at the moment using a jelly roll....

.. and she introduced me to this fun book of quilts....

I got a lovely jelly roll with a bit of extra metreage on a trip to Quilters Angel .....

Paris Flea Market

I don't have the fancy ruler so I adapted my little one.... fiddle fiddle .... I still had trouble with it so Hubz put arrows to help me... I'm such a dork when it comes to that side of things!

... anyway it works fine and I made a bunch of HST's (that's Half Square Triangles - not Hormone Steroid Therapy {which could be an answer for a number of issues!})

Being rather fond of mini bunting I nearly stopped here....

Putting the blocks together gave me a chance to use by double barrelled pins (maybe I do need HST - that's Hormone Steroid Therapy)

I only recently met these pins - they do hold the fabric in two places and is a bit firmer... can sew over them to - just go slowly so the needle slides over the pin - not flat foot like you have had too much HST ....

Pretty soon I had a pretty block....

(my corners are not perfect but they are a lot better than they used to be - that was before HST and double barrelled pins)

... and then another pretty block.....

Oh my goodness - these are such pretty fabrics

Over the weekends while watching TV - well not watching since a lot of it was footy stuff - some of them having had a bit of HST too - I sewed up this little picture - already printed on lovely linen ....

It was in a gift and I don't know who it is by or where it came from but it's lovely .... I think it will be something lovely later..... but I don't know what .....

Righto, Gotto Go... more HST - I'll leave it to you which one I mean...