A Three Year Give Away

Can you believe it I just realised that I have been blogging since January 2010.

Where does the time go!!!!!  I look back and cannot believe how much has happened in my life.
I have made so many friends around the world  through the blog it's  incredible. Many of you I will probably never meet but feel like their will always be  bonds that tie

I have been so fortunate to meet up with so many in person too and that is always very special.

So I'm having a three year anniversary  giveaway. Its a kit that I bought at the 2007 Vermont Quilt Festival.
The kit is by Froncie Quinn  In The Time of Toile. The centre is broderie perse and  know for sure  I will never make it,  So if anyone would like it please leave a comment and I will get someone to pull names out of the hat  on Tuesday the 5th February.

Thank you to all of you who have left comments and stuck with me through my trials and tributations over the past three years.

 Happy Stitching

Sue

Infinite Variety Re-Visited

In March 2011 thier was a very special exhibition in NYC of Red and White quilts.
My Pic and I were lucky enough to go and not only were we absolutely knocked out by these quilts but we  meet up with fellow bloggers from around the world and made some new friends along the way.

This weekend Linda http://quiltsinthebarnaus.blogspot.co.uk/ has created her own Red and White exhibition so you might want to hop over  there in the next few days and take a look  as thier is going to be  plenty of eye candy for sure
Some have already been and Dorothy http://dorothysthreadsoflife.blogspot.co.uk/  and Miriam http://yellowrosequilts.blogspot.co.uk/ have started posting some eye candy and with lots more to follow.

I had such a good time in NYC at the exhibition and have meet up with lots that attended it since and am pretty sure our paths will cross again.

I meet up  again with Barb http://funwithbarbandmary.blogspot.co.uk/  at the Vemont Quilt Festival this year and she gave me this little red and white quilt.

 Such a cool backing and label.

These little red and white  beauties cheer up my wall in my sewing room.

The Infinite Variety of Red and White quilts set the quilt world alight  and if only Joanne Rose knew how many friendships would be born from it.

Have a great weekend.

Sue

Crib Quilts

Don't you just love these crib quilts. Pink for a girl and blue for a boy . I am going to have to get busy  making a crib quilt as soon  as  the new sewing room is set up. News is  I am going to be a grand-ma at the end of January.

We are all so excited about a new little person coming into our family It will certainly fill the void that is in my life. and I am so looking forward to going shopping!

I collected packing boxes today ,  I decided I wanted to pack up my  sewing paraphernalia myself.  I figured If I put it into the box I might just know what to expect to come out. Any way I thought the removal men just wouldn't get IT packing yards and yards of fabric. I don't want them to know I have a habit. LOL.


 

Sashing

Another quilt for the VQF in 2007. The only photo I seem to have taken of this quilt and it must have been for the interesting choice of sashing. I know they always say quilting makes the quilt but in some instances the choice of a border fabric can bring the quilt alive. In this case it is the sashing The block itself is lovely but  think  in this instance it is the sashing that gives the  impact.

The house is beginning to look a total mess with things being taken down from walls
and stacked in the dining room.
I was beginning to think the move wasn't going to happen a week ago as the solicitor found a covenant in the contract that was untenable.  After a week of sleepless nights all the solicitors came up with a suitable solution for my purchase to move forward. Hooray.
I was beginning to think the furniture was going to go off into store  and Mery and I going of with rucksacks on backs into the unknown.

Quilted rucksack of course!

Sue

More Vintage Quilts

Just a couple of  red and green quilt photos I took at the Vermont Quilt Festival in 2007.

Enjoy

Vintage Quilts

Love this sashing

As their is no sewing going on here I thought I would post some photos of some vintage quilts.
In 2007 it was my first trip away to the USA on my own and off I went as the intrepid traveler to the Vermont Quilt Festival.
This was long before my blogging days so I have no info on these quilts  other than I liked them.
Don't forget to double click on the photos for a closeup.

Enjoy the eye candy.

Red and Green Quilts 3

 

 

 

 

Here are the photo's of the last four red and green quilts I took at the Vermont Quilt Festival in 2009.
It really did make for a magnificent exhibition and wish I hadn't left my catalogue in the rental car - I would love to read up about all these beauties I have posted over the last couple of weeks.
Enjoy.

Red and Green Quilts 2

More Red and Green quilts for you to enjoy.

Red and Green Quilts

Their were lots of posts around in the festive season of Red and Green quilts
I have been going through my photo albums and found lots that I took of of vintage red and greens quilts at the Vermont Quilt Festival in 2009. I can't tell you anything about them as I left my catalogue in the hire car when I gave it back so you will just have to enjoy the eye candy.
I have quite a few so will post the photo's over the next few days.
Enjoy .