LOTS OF STUFF

for a chance to win this Jelly roll

you have to go to

http://cobblestonecabin.blogspot.com/

leave a message and you never know....

it could be yoohoo.

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Now you may remember this Quilt I designed and made for Lisa,

I thought you may like to see all the designs I came up with for this one Quilt...

It is amazing how many designs you can get from a simple Four Patch block...

Just a quarter turn and 'bam' another pattern emerges...

I quite liked this one...

you will see the one below it is the one I went with, but - that I quarter turned it...

three more designs, same pattern, same fabrics...

so there you have it folks, one design but SEVEN layouts to choose from -

which would you have chosen?

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Oh me oh my - a lesson to be learned here... I am in several swaps in a group I belong to - one of them is for a Bookmark... You will see further on some of the ones I have received already, but I wanted you to see this - the envelope on of them came in had been damaged in the postal system and ripped quite badly - luckily no damage had been done to the Bookmark and the beautiful bead was still attached, but it might have been disastrous, SO if you are sending anything through the post with beads on, please please please make sure it is well protected, bubble wrap, tissue, anything would do. Better safe than sorry...

Here is the beautiful Bookmark which was in the envelope -

isn't it gorgeous, and a beautiful bead, I would have sorry to have lost that,

thank you Marian...

This one is from my friend Di, she has used some lovely fabrics on this one,

then added a silver skeleton leaf to it, many thanks Di...

With the other two Bookmarks I have received this swap for me is now completed

thanks girls

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I belong to another group on the Web, and a Table Runner competition was set up, I actually found that to be very handy as I had promised a kind of runner to a friend of mine [?] so thought to myself 'I could kill two birds with one stone' so to speak here. Was that cheating do you think? Anyway, I started the runner, then had a mad frenzy of tidying my sewing room - as you do - and in the process I managed to lose the components for it amongst everything! Sod's law strikes again!  As you can see I did find it and had but one day to get it all done, photographed and sent off for the competition. I managed it as I haven't actually done any Quilting on it so to speak, I don't think it needs it somehow. Now, I am not expecting to win the competition as there are others in there far superior to mine, we get to vote, that is very difficult I can tell you, as some of them are fabulous. There is one I covet. Anyway, this is why I am putting my finished one on here for you to see. You can't vote, you don't belong to the group, or do you!!!! Anyway, I may have broken a rule by doing this, but, hey! Apologies to Janice if I have. Now I have to tell you this is very BLACK, it doesn't look it on the pictures, the black has a definite tinge of 'green' to it for some reason. Hubby took loads of piks for me but no matter what I did they still look green. You wil have to trust me it is Black and Red, oh yeah with a bit of green on it. First picture is the complete thing...

close up of centre panel, showing the 'rough' edge applique I did -

I am beginning to like the effect it gives...

and look, you see what I mean, the back is the same fabric as the front, but isn't it green!!!!!

Very odd if you ask me.

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This is some black felt, black again but this does look black now doesn't it? This is for me to use on my Embellishing machine, I noticed Myfanwy used a lot of black for her samples, so I went ordered this off EBay. Actually, I bought quite a lot of stuff up at Hobbycraft on Monday, oops. Not a bit of fabric though, it was all stuff for the Embellisher machine. Strange that!!!!

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I will end on a bit of a boring thing for you, but for me it is quite exciting. I had an email from Myfanwy to let me know about this. You  will have to scroll down the new page to see what I mean....

http://blog.colouricious.com/

and on that note, I will close.

Fame makes you soooooooooo tired!!!

hahahahahahaha

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