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Just started a new blog.....

http://needtheroom.blogspot.co.uk/

Enjoy.

I have entered this at QUILTING GALLERY in the weekly competition, I am asking if you will kindly go vote for me, or of course any other of the ones entered for this theme - WALL HANGINGS - which takes your fancy. The voting starts on FRIDAY. I will put a link up on Thursday, which will hopefully take you straight to the page.

Many thanks for voting, whether it be for mine or others. Please take time to view all the fantastic quilts in this competition, you can vote for SIX, you don't have to vote for mine. I didn't.

http://quiltinggallery.com/2012/04/27/vote-now-wall-hangings-contest/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzEmail&utm_campaign=0&utm_content=416375

POSTCARDS, UFOs, ATCs, OH MY!

Lots of different things, some you may have seen before, sorry, I seem to have lost track of what I have put on here and what I haven't. I must take time to check it all out. Meantime, forgive me...

One colour family but use five shades

Postcard from Jackie...

 My Green one of above swap...

 Bookmark and ATC swap

Theme STARS - from Mal...

 My version of the above swap...

 and the back...

 Trip Around the World Postcard Swap -

INDIA

to me from Sandy...

 My version of the above swap...

Sent by me to Fay in Israel, the theme was Bud vase

I decided to do a different take on the theme...

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 I sent some rubbish  stuff to my friend Tessa,

she wanted to know what to send me in return -

I asked her to depict me on a Postcard -

Perfect, hahahaha...

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Next UFO pinned up ready for quilting...

 Time passes, tick-tock-tick-tock-

job done...

 these are the two blocks in the quilt...

 close up of quilting on one block...

 and on the other...

 this is the back, hope you can make out the quilting...

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Very pretty card sent from Alison...

WOW, thank you Alison...

I shall have fun using these too...

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some surprise gifts

from Caz - many thanks Caz...

from Helen - many thanks Helen...

with a postcard of Bluebells too from Helen...

I got it out Helen...

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Who have we here?

OH look, so cute... 

It's Foggy, one of my daughter's cats...

"what you doing?" 

"go away, I was asleep" 

"I wont tell you again"

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Just had a quick look back and realised I hadn't put up the finished Postcards I made from the Embellishing fun I had a while back - I hope you enjoy seeing how they turned out...
POSTCARDS - made from one of the Journal pages I did...
 

I sewed beads all round the two leaves... 

Beads sewn to centre of flower... 

just some quilting on this one... 

a few stars added... 

various quilting lines added to this...

beads embellished to this one... 

just some quilting...

 
quilted lines added...
 
beads and or quilting added to these...
 
Shisha mirrors and beads added to this one...
 
ATC's
these five from the same journal page as postcards above...
 
quilting added...
 
quilting...
 
beads and a shisha mirror...
 
quilted stars...
 
Don't they look different to the rough bits from the post a way back, I shall do this again and see what happens.
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BACK TO THE UFO

Once I had finished Alison's Quilt I got back to my UFO and as I had done a fair bit of it before Alison's arrived I soon managed to get it completed. The quilting is the type given us to do by Ann Fahl, from the Quilting Challenge group.

Today I have sorted backings out for two more UFO's....Go me!!!!

I call this quilt - Cottage in a Wood - after a little nursery rhyme I used to sing to Rebecca and my girls when they were tiny...

Front...

close up of cottage...

close up of quilting...

Tree...

another tree..

and another...

well it is a wood...

the back...

close up of back...

In a cottage in a wood

A little man at the window stood

Saw a rabbit running by

Knocking at his door

Help me Help me sir he said

Or the hunter will shoot me dead

Come little rabbit come with me

Happy we will be.

You do actions to this and it is great fun as I demonstrated at my group on Saturday.

Oh yes,

many thanks to Polly who gave me the fabric for the binding, it worked a treat Polly. Cheers.

Every quilt should have one...

a quilt stand!!!!!

hahahaha, don't you love those socks!

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