Rainbow Scraps - Pink Cats and Pukekos

Saturday again and heading for mid February already.

A slow week again here, we had one of the bedrooms repainted so everything had to come out of the room and is scattered between our living room, another bedroom and my sewing room! Began putting furniture back today but still lots to go back into drawers and the closet. In-between all the moving furniture  around I picked some of my pink fabrics 

all ready for ten pink cats but only two made so far,

all ten should be sitting pretty for next Saturday.

Been quilting on New York Blooms

and as for the mention of Pukekos in my post header they are one of our native birds here in New Zealand, easy to tame, love following people and a we have quite a few around a local supermarket car parking area by the bush and stream. We were there during the week and a few were hanging around,  one friendly soul came right up to the car door as I was taking the photos, he was obviously looking for handouts of food!

Time to link up with So Scrappy - Tickled Pink

A Lovely Year of Finishes - February Goal Setting Party

Hard to believe we are into February already - and here in New Zealand we are on February 2nd.

One of my goals from January has had to be transferred to February, my Fractured quilt should have been completed last month but wasn't so fingers crossed for this month.

I am hoping to complete the last seven blocks for my "Fruit Salad" quilt and finish up my "New York Blooms" these last two will also need posting to 15 Minutes Play which I take part in.

Fractured

No borders will be added to Fractured, it's busy enough and I have to confess I'm not a huge fan of borders. I appreciate that some quilts would just not look good without having a border but if I can get away without putting them on that suits me fine.

Fruit Salad

New York Blooms

 Not sure what I will do regarding bordering Fruit Salad, it does need something, it will be four by four block setting and possibly I'll just go with the Aboriginal Dot, which is a more attractive green "in the flesh" than the photo shows.

New York Blooms will not have the Subway fabric top or bottom, I'm just going to bind the whole thing with the pink fabric and I have some pretty jazzy fabric set aside for the backing.

These last two don't need a lot of quilting, the made fabric has pretty small pieces and the effect would be lost with a whole lot of stitching

Linking up now with A Lovely Year Of Finishes

Midnight At The Oasis - Final Link-up

Here we are - our final link-up for everyone taking part in the MATO Quilt Along and what a great idea from Sharon and Jess - thank so much!

Unfortunately I am still behind with my quilt "Desert Rose" due to a difficult five weeks but it WILL be finished by the end of this month, check in to my blog towards the end of February to see the finished quilt.

The nine patch blocks are still a work in progress and as for the very last border we'll have to wait and see. I didn't follow the prescribed order, width or content of the borders for this quilt therefore the log cabin style final border will need to be resized and I suspect my quilt will turn out a little larger than the pattern which we used as our inspiration. The colours in the quilt are actually richer than they are showing in the photo above - see the thumbnail by my profile for a true representation.

This has been such an enjoyable journey and I have seen such beautiful work from all the people who have taken part  but I suspect I am not the only one who has not completed yet. I am linking up now with Sharon and hope you will go along and have a peek.

Until next time have a good week
Maureen

Fabriholics Anonymous - and I have FAILED

The two pics above show what I mean when I say FAILED!!

We were allowed to buy fabric if we were making a quilt for an exhibition or for publication, I had forgotten that we have the annual Quilt Show here in Auckland in November and I have in mind a quilt using a wide variety of solid colours in strips. My stocks of solids are years old and after looking through them I realised there was no way they were suitable - so I just had to put an order in for the jelly rolls - yes, I possibly could have got away with just two or three rolls but I hedged my bets and bought five.

I shall try and be very good and save my pennies from now on.

Linking up now with Fabriholics Anonymous
and will show the results of my fabric fast slip-up later in the year!

Next link up I should have more to show from using up some of my fabric stocks.

Happy Quilting All

January - A Lovely Year of Finishes 2014

The first month of the year and time to show our finishes for January.

I had gaily stated that my goals for this month were

a. to bind the huge quilt for my daughter

b. to quilt and bind my Fractured quilt

Sadly I have only been able to meet a. and bind the quilt. The backing for Fractured is all ready but the last five weeks have been extremely difficult due to the death of my mother in law and DH took off to England for three and a half weeks to help with arrangements there, I had imagined myself tucked away in my quilting room sewing like crazy but I just couldn't seem to summon up the energy or enthusiasm, I am back on track now and will have two or three things on my list for February

Excuse the  not  very good photo, the sun was so bright and as my design wall is just not big enough to take a 100" x 80" quilt I had to throw it over the balcony fence!

Linking up now with

A Lovely Year of Finishes

Seems to be a heap of folk linking up so please go and visit!

Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2014

First off I had four blue cats, then I had six more last time I posted but I  never had them all sitting together!

Here they are

Now some of you may have visited The Objects of Design where Sally T and her accomplice Tommy
seem to have enticed two of my cats along to see her cranes - not so - as you can see my two are still here, it seems we are dealing with two sets of identical twins! A first perhaps in the feline world and a delight to see. I wonder if any other "cats of a different colour" will hop along to visit Sally and Tommy during the coming months!

I had high hopes of showing my blue 16 patch quilt-in-progress but as no progress has been made there is not much point!

Linking up now with Super Scrappy to join all those other scrappers!
Looking forward to our next colour
Happy Quilting
Maureen