A Vintage Sheet Swap!

Wow - I can't believe that I haven't blogged for well over a year. Oh well, straight back into it.

I have signed up for Kel's vintage sheet fat quarter swap - I got some great (and a few dud) sheets in a vintage sheet a few years ago, so will continue to add to my collection in the hope of doing a lovely soft vintage sheet quilt.

She still has spaces and the swap is still open - go and join up!

EB Dolls Quilt Swap

I have received my gorgeous quilt from the latest roudn of the EB Quilters Doll Quilt Swap. I am SO luck. Leah made me a fantastic wallhanging with the best handquilting. Thanks so much Leah. I really love it.

The little quilt that I sent to Xena has been opened and hopefully she will take a photo of it because I forgot. Here is a work in progress shot though.

My new washcloth - swap goodies

I am superslack blogger and received this and did not blog about it.
I received this gorgeous knitted washcloth from Gillian in the jellywares washcloth swap. Gorgeous colour and perfect and soft. I was also spoiled with a ball of aqua blue cotton to make one for myself and some coriander seeds for my garden. Thanks so much Gilly.

washcloth swap

The washcloth that I sent as part of Jodie's washcloth swap has arrived at Pixie's house. I am so glad that she liked it.
I ended making a sewn washcloth - lovely white waffleweave with some park slope binding. Of course I forgot to take pictures, but there are some on Pixie's blog. (I had tried to knit up some washcloths, which just turned out like dodgy looking red squares, not really up to swap quality, but they are doing a nice job of my dishes!)
I am looking forward to seeing what I receive

pay it forward

I am participating in some 'pay it forward' fun over at ttp://funwithalittlewiseowl.blogspot.com/ and am continuing the fun here. I have three spots to fill for peeps who want to join in too. I will make a handmade gift for the first 3 interested people. I have 365 days to do it in…What it will be and when it will arrive is a total surprise!
The catch is that you must participate as well: you must have a blog and before you leave your comment here, write up a pay it forward post on your blog to keep the fun going.
(you can just cut and paste this one if you like, changing "funwithalittlewiseowl" to mandsnest) Looking forward to this :)

EB Quilters Doll Quilt Swap #3

Yes, it is that time of year again - EB quilter's doll quilt swap. I haven't taken part in many swaps this year as I have tried to be a bit more realistic about what I can achieve with my time, but I couldn't miss out on this swap with my buddies.

EB dolls quilt swap revealed!

The quilt that I sent to Natalie can now be revealed (although her pictures are SO much better than mine - check out those gorgeous kids!)

EB Dolls quilt swap sneak peek

some sneak peeks at my EB DQS

EB fabric scrap swap

Another round of the EB quilters scrap swap - Thanks Ads. Lots to keep me busy in this lot!

Minature Booty Swap received!

Lucky me!!


Check out this adorable quilt that I received from Solidia . I am so thrilled - she picked my taste perfectly!


Solidia also sent me some beautiful fabric and some grogeous Amy Butler stationery. I feel so lucky! Thank you so much

Doll Quilt Swap 4 arrived!

I arrived home from an interstate trip this week to find a little box on my doorstep. I wasn't expecting anything and couldn't remember buying anything, so it was a great surprise to open it up and find a gorgeous little quilt from Gillian at SillyGilly as part of the Flickr Doll Quilt Swap 4. She also sent some wonderful extras - I can't wait to make up the dress and the dog fabric had Mali enthralled (she ha sa dog 'thing' at the moment). Gillian sent me the loveliest note, which had me sobbing - it felt so special that someone had taken time to get to know me.
Thanks Gillian - I love it!

Doll Quilt Swap 4 posted off!

Ok - it is finished and on its way to Montana (that is my only hint!)

Minature Booty Swap ….. RECEIVED!

I was so happy to get a little note from Vickie to say that she had received her chook quilt – YIPPEE! I am SO glad that she was happy and that it was well received.

I just have to finish the bindings on my Flickr doll quitl swap and then that will be posted off.

Enough swaps for me for a while I think.

Vintage sheet square swap.

I am participating in the vintage sheet square swap over at See Katie Sew, and have sent my 200 squares all the way over to the USA, and I will then receive 200 squares back. I am inspired by this vintage sheet quilt, so I will add it to the mile long "project list”!

mini booty swap

I have joined the Minature Booty Swap Round 2! I just have to sew down the binding on my quilt, wash it and then post off. My recpient is also from Australia and had 'chooks' as one of her likes, so I have tried my hand at needle-turn applique in a large pattern to do a chook feature. Looking at it now it looks a bit boring - AARRGG! I love doing swaps but am always so unsure of the calibre of my work and that it measures up. Anyway, here it is ready to be bound - I did some stippling around the chook and then just straight lines around the borders.

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Scrap fabric swap time again!

Scrap fabric swap time again, yes the EB quilting girls are swaping scraps again. My parcel arrived today and it is full of quilty goodness, including some adorable 30s prints to add to my collection (not sure what project I have in mind for my 30s fabrics - I can't decide!) Thank you to Ursula (no blog) for the lovely fabrics.

And here is a close up of my fav piece - the cows!

Box Swap

I have taken part in a box swap run by Cass from Snailblazer. What a fun idea. Cass made up a box of goodies - fabric, papers, ribbons, hand-made items, buttons, vintage stuff, then she posted it off to the next person on the list, they take out 3 things and replace them with three things and they post to the next person on the list and so on until the last person who posts it back to Cass.

I took out the gorgeous VW bag, a vintage fabric panel and an altered Golden book note book. Ads - I left the magnets for you!

I put in:

- 2 Patchwork mags

- a wallhanging pattern with some furnshing fabric swatches that the animals in the pattern would look cute in

- 5 vintage dressmaking patterns

Lemonade Stand Quilt Swap - Sent and Received!

I have taken part in the Lemonade Stand Doll Quilt Swap organised at Ubercrafty.



I have received an adorable quilt from Katherine in the USA. (Katherine doesn't have a blog that I can find, but if I do, I will link it in here). The pattern is 'cobblestones' and it is a grogeous green and pink. This was Katherine's first doll quilt believe it or not! Fantastic job and is well loved. The back is also gorgeous, using coordinating fabrics from the front. Katherine also kindly sent some lovely stickers as gifts for Kya and Mali. I have just popped a quick pic of the quilt here - The girls haven't seen it yet as they are with Nanna and Honey for the long weekend.


I have sent my quilt off - I made my bright little quilt for Tara - hope that it arrives soon.

My DQS received

Happy to report that the Crazy Chook in Boots quilt has arrived at it's new home with Alice in Texas. So glad that it has arrived and has been appreciated.

Doll Quilt Swap 3 RECEIVED!!

I received the MOST gorgeous package from AJ last week (naughty blogegr that I am have only just gotten around to writing about it now.) AJ was so kind to send not one but 2 adorable doll quilts to our home. Knowing that I have 2 little girls, AJ kindly made a quilt for each of them. Now that is quilty love! AJ is actually a friend from EB quilters, so it was special to be matched up with someone that I already know too.

Look at these happy faces:

Now little do the girls realise, but I may soon steal these quilts and start a mini quilt wall in my study (haha - insert evil laugh!)

AJ also sent through our 10 inch square swaps in gorgeous tones (my requests were for brights or 'autumn tone' fabrics). PLUS a couple of lovely fat 1/4s as a thankyou for a different thing that we have swapped! Oh what a lucky girl I am!