A new Baby and a quilt

A few years ago (2006/2007) I was part of a block swap through SCQIS which is a quilt based yahoo group.   There were 12 of us in the group and we all made a pieced block of my chosing.   My block choice was Shooting Star 2, the beige fabric was supplied by me, and all participants used a colour from the Fossil Fern range. 

I received the blocks back over three years ago and it has been sitting in my craft room for many years as a cot quilt.   Earlier this year we found out that my sister-in-law was expecting her third child.

Today, my sister-in-law Stephanie gave birth to her third daughter. One day overdue and weighing in at 9lb3oz (a fraction over 4.2kg). As I do this post, we do not know the name of our neice.

Here is the completed that was finished on 19 July (the due date) and it is ready to go to New Zealand on Thursday with Justin. 

Till next time
XoX 

For something completely different....

This is a quilt for my eldest daughter Katherine. It started off as a monthly block exchange through SCQIS on yahoo groups. 11 others made a block for me and I made a block for them in the theme that thay had chosen. My theme was Bees, Bugs (Ladybugs) and Butterflys. However an Ant made its way into this quilt but at least it is pink. I have done about 9 swaps with this group of lovely ladies and I have been lucky to meet a couple of them IRL (in real life). This quilt started it's journey around Australia in January 2005. The top was machined quilted by a friend here on the Gold Coast. Parts of the fabric used in this quilt top was used at the Canberra SCQ Retreat 2006 in the Scrapbooking for Quilters workshop. Now where is that book? I have moved twice since then. That one can say was the starting point to me scrapbooking. To all the ladies who participated in this quilt top, thank you. I finished this quilt top at 1.39pm today. It is now on Katie's bed waiting for her to come home from school and see it. Now her sister wants me to finish her one. Off to locate a lovely butterfly pattern now.

'Till next time
xox