Silence please

Silence please - I have one last announcement - jump over to my new blog to check out the winner of my quilt give away. Thanks to all those who left a comment.
Kerry

The link is fixed

Hi all here is the link to my new Typepad home. Don't forget the giveaway in my previous post.

4 Reasons for todays post - 1 of them is a give away

Well I have 4 reason for todays post
Firstly it is my - or should I say was - my 2nd Blog anniversary this week, I really can't remember what life was like without blogs, thanks to everyone who has visited over the past two years, thanks to all the wonderful friends I have made from all over the world, each day wouldn't be near as good without you all in it.
Secondly - I am up to 170 - posts, I know that might not sound alot for 2 years but I reckon I have done pretty well to squeeze in 170 posts in my busy life.
Thirdly - I would like to celebrate by giving away one of my many quilts to a lucky person who leaves a comment over the next week. I would like all those out there in blog land to leave a comment and I tell me which of their quilts is their favourite.
My very favourite quilt out of all the dozens I have made is my Thimbleberries Pansy Park quilt, I usually have this quilt on my bed and every day I admire how wonderful this quilt is. I love the design, the colours and the fabrics. It suits my bedroom so well, I just love it.
Fourth reason for tonights blog is to share some news with you and let you know that this will be my last posting on blogger, I have a new blog so click on here to take a look.
Thanks once again to everyone for reading about my life and business over the past 2 years, I hope we can spend many more together.
Have a great weekend, I am off to see Rod Stewart in concert.
Kerry
PS blogger will not let me link my typepad site
Try http://kerryswainscottage.typepad.com/my_weblog/

Look at these gorgeous Flannels

These gorgeous flannels arrived in store a couple of weeks back, I have designed a quilt to make out of them, just have to find some spare time to sew. They are a range of flannels called Sachet Flannels by Faye Burgos for Marcus Brothers Textiles. There are a mixture of large roses, small florals as well as her well know tiny rose bud design, tone on tone prints in greens, pinks, creams and chocolates.
These fabrics will be a must for flannels lovers, like myself.

Those ladies in my flannel club will be receiving samples very soon, so keep an eye on the postie.

Just to wet your appetite

Just thought I would share with you what I started working on this afternoon. After the success of "Girls Day Out" Libby Richardson's BOM (which is still available if your not already working on it) her new BOM is "Lace & Grace Tea Party. It is made using the Verenda range of Fabrics by Northcott, these are a Quest for a Cure range, with money from their sales going to the National Breast Cancer Foundation. Libby will also donate part of the sales of the pattern to NBCF.
This quilt will be on sale as a Block of the Month from March/April, using the same fabrics as Libby's original.
Thanks for dropping by
Kerry

My Version of Rhapsody

Well this week I have pieced together the quilt top for "Rhapsody" a pattern by Natalie Bird from "The Birdhouse". I enjoyed making this fairly simple quilt using a new range of fabrics from Quilting Treasures called "Heirloom Garden". I have cut kits for this quilt, they will sell for $118.

Maybe I might get another quilt top cut up and sewn over the weekend.
Thanks for dropping by,
Kerry

The rain has arrived

Today was a very eventful day, the return of my Tuesday class and lots of rain.
Early this morning it started raining then by 10am the heavens opened and down came the rain. The Peel river runs through our property, by about 12 the river was in full flood, peaking at 5m's.
This caused heaps of problems, 3 months ago the main bridge into town was pulled down(after damaged substained from the 2000 floods) and work has commenced on replacing it, but mean while there is only a low level river crossing that is closed to vehicles after just a little rain. So this crossing was closed by about 10am, meaning there was only one other road access into town. All my ladies came this way to class, but due to the heavy rain a small bridge on this road was partly washed away leaving no direct access in or out of town. The only way out was a detour up through the forest and down a very steep dirt road, thankfully everyone returned home safely. This will be a Tuesday we will talk about for awhile.
This photo I took late this afternoon looking down onto the river from the side of the bridge in our place, the old bridge here was washed away in the 2000 floods, the marker shows the river at less then 2m's, a huge drop on what it was earlier in the day.
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The weather forecast is for more rain, so who knows what morning will bring, there is a heavy storm going around at the moment.
Where ever you may be I hope you are all dry and safe inside.
Kerry

Irish in the Corner - Quilt

This quilt is one I started last year for a shop sample, for some strange reason I never finished it off but this afternoon I spent just one hour on it and it is ready for the quilters. I have used a combination of the Double Irish Chain block and Puss in the Corner Block and set them all on Diagonal. It is a available it kit form using the exact fabrics.

I have also just about completed another quilt top over the weekend so will post about it another day.
Thanks for dropping by, hope you have had a great weekend where ever you may be in the small world of ours.
Kerry

With less then two hours to go

Well I just had to sew this evening and this is what I have completed - My version of the "Every Day Angel" quilt, by the Chook Shed Pattern Co, from a few years back. I was lucky enough to be involved in a paper bag quilt (friendship quilt) with Tina and lots of other lovely ladies back in 2005, all of the Appliqued blocks were made for me and I had never got around to putting them all together until tonight.This totals 9 WISP finished for the month of January, at the begining of the month I pulled out 10 unfinished projects and now thanks to May Britts challenge I have completed 9 of them. I really hope this inspires lots of you ladies out there to drag out those old projects and finish them off, its a great feeling. Now I am ready to get stuck into some new shop samples for this years retreats, I'll keep you posted.

PS sorry I can't link, but blogger just won't let me.

2nd Post for the day

Wisp 7 & 8 completed - well you are all probably thinking I must have done nothing but finish off my projects today but I have. Worked hard in the shop most of the day, then decided it was far too hot to do anything outside this afternoon, I was home alone so decided to sew. This Christmas wall hanger I started a few years back, now I can pack it away ready to hang in my home next Christmas.

"Just Hanging for Christmas" finished - I started him at our Christmas in July last year, Natalie Ross designed him especially for this yearly event.

Only 29 hours left until the end of January and still I have 2 projects on my WISP list, I will see what tomorrows brings.
Thanks for dropping by
Kerry

WISP NUMBER 6 all finsihed

Just finished off my Christmas Trivet all ready for Christmas 2008 only 11 months away.
I filled it with rice, cloves and cinnamon sticks, should smell yummy. Thanks Tina for the fabric from Canada.

I've finished WISP No. 5

Ruths Quilt


Well after not feeling well over the weekend, I decided to struggle on with trying to complete my Ruth's Quilt out of "Living the Dream" Book by Leanne Beasley, I started the stitcheries for this quilt back in 2005 and I can now say it is completed, well the quilt top at least. After sewing all of my rows together I decided it looked good on my bed, so instead of leaving it as a topper I added a 3" border in the green polka dot by Moda, then a 10" border using this gorgeous floral. Now it measures roughly 2.5m square. I will package it up today and pop in the mail to my dear friend who will quilt it and send it back completed.
Once again thanks May Britt for the challange.

Wonder of Spring Block of the Month

This last week has been very hectic in the shop, with lots of customers, most of them visiting the area for the Country Music Festival in Tamworth. This has meant that not much othe work has been done. Monday afternoon I started to cut Block 1 of Natalie Ross's new Block of the Month "Wonder of Spring", well it has taken me all week, but today I can say that they are all packaged and ready to go.
This is Block 1, all the rest can be seen on Natalies site.

If anyone is interested in doing Natalie's quilt as a block of the month, it will begin next week, it will run over 10 months at a cost of $24.50 Aus, per month. Each month you will recieve the pattern, all of the fabrics, pre-cut to size, in very similiar colours to those that Natalie has used, postage is included within Australia so your parcel will be mailed direct to your door for you to being stitching.
Patterns sets are also available if you would like to use your own fabrics from your stash.

If anyone is interested just email me and I can give you more details.
Happy sewing
Kerry

4th WISP finished

Well I have just spent the morning sewing and have completed the table runner I pieced together 18months ago, I just had to mitre the corners on the main border and then quilt and bind it. I have a big table that is will look great on.

This is a close up of the gorgeous Debbie Mumm fabric I used on the border.
Kerry

2nd Post for the day and 3rd finished WISP

One half finished stitchery designed turned into a small draw string bag this afternoon, it is amazing how just a few minutes set aside to sew can have wonderful results.

This small bag is an Annie Downs - Hatched & Patched design call Plum Pudding.
Until next time, happy sewing
Kerry

2 WISP completed

Well January is nearly over and I have only finished 2 of my WISP, better then nothing I suppose, this is the table runner I started far too many years ago, but now it is ready to be used.

item number 2 to cross off my list is the machine mat all finished and in use,

Thanks May Britt for the challenge, I will keep you all posted if I manage to complete any more before the end of the month.
Kerry

Two Quilts finished for the shop

Yesterday I received two quilts back from my wonderful quilter, that were made as shop samples before Christmas. Just thought I would share them both with you, I am very happy with them both.
The first one is my version of Rosalie Quinlan's "Rebekah Amy's Quilt, I have used a range of Fabrics by Jackie Robinson & Maywood studio's which features a wonderful floral border design which I have added as a border on this quilt, I love the fabrics.

This is my version of Heather Bailey's Freshcut Quilt, the fabrics are great but not everyones choice, Heathers quilt has a large frill around the outside, I decided to just work with plain borders. I was very pleased with the finished quilt.

Do hope everyone is finding a little time to sew, the shop has been busy this week so not much time for me to sew, but maybe tonight.
Kerry

Gutermann Nostalgia Tins

Today a shippment arrived in of these cute little tins, these Gutermann nostalgia tins come in 3 different designs, all of them have 4 reels of thread, 100m of red, white, black and navy. They will sell for $12.50 each, if anyone would like to order them just email with your details, they won't last long.

"Bellatrix" doll class

Saturday saw a dozen ladies gather in the shop to make "Bellatrix" an Annie Smith "Country Keepsakes" pattern. We all had a busy but productive day with lots of chatter and lots of sewing. This is my version of "Bellatrix",I used a new range of fabrics in store by Timeless Treasurers and as usual I didn't add quite as much detail as Annies original doll, but I am very happy with the result. She was fun to make and always fun to share the experience with others. During 2008 we will be running more one day doll classes as well as a mail order doll club, if you would like more details on either of these just let me know. I will post a photo of some of the others once they are completed.
I will be back later to post a photo of my completed WISP.
Happy sewing
Kerry

DRUM ROLL - AND THE WINNERS ARE

Well thanks heaps to all those that left comments, seeing there was an over whelming number of ladies who left comments I have decided to give away 2 other small prizes. With my husbands help I have completed the draw and the winners are ...............
The winner of the handmade Sewing machine mat goes to comment number 27 - anonymous Chris
The winner of the Kit for the sewing machine mat goes to comment number 30 - anonymous Meredith
and the 2 other winner who will receive a small gift from me are comment number 48 - Mrs Goodneedle and comment number 6 - Pat
Congratulations to those 4 ladies and thanks heaps to everyone else who left a comment. If those 4 ladies could contact me with there postal addresses that would be great.
I hope to be back over the weekend to share some of my now finished WISP.
Happy sewing
Kerry