Purple Paisley Patch

Tuesday, 3 February 2009

Let the GIVEAWAY fun begin!!!

This Giveaway is now CLOSED!

I'll post the winners tomorrow night as it is after midnight now so I'm off to bed!

Well, it is twenty minutes to midnight here in Brisbane, Australia, so by the time I finish this post and upload a photo it will probably be 4 February.

So....... (drum roll please), It gives me great pleasure to declare that the Purple Paisley Patch contribution to Katy's Great International Stash Busting Giveaway is now up for grabs!

This giveaway will be open until midnight on 6 February, so that should give everyone enough time to get an entry in.

The fabric below is up for grabs, together with what other odds and ends I find to add to the parcel.

To enter, just comment on this post, but make it interesting for me by telling me something about yourself. Tell me anything you like, it might be your favourite quilt block, favourite fabric designer, favourite colour, how many and what type of pets you have, favourite book, favourite movie, something about yourself that you think is interesting - whatever you like! Please make sure I can get in touch with you if you are the lucky winner.

When the clock strikes midnight on 5 February the Giveaway will be closed and I will draw a winner when I crawl out of bed on 6 February. I'm hoping to do this using the random number generator thingy that I've heard about, but failing that, numbers will go in a hat (or some sort of container) and I will referee a fight between my two children to see who gets to draw the number out. Of course, then I will have to have another giveaway in the near future so the other child gets to draw a number out of the hat. Not that they are at all competitive!!!! LOL

All right, enough of my rambling, it is almost midnight! Don't forget to go to Katy's blog to see who else is taking part in the Giveaway.

GOOD LUCK!

Sunday, 1 February 2009

Sunday Stash

Welcome to my Sunday Stash Premiere!

For my first showing I've decided to share a lovely collection of thirties prints that I had been eyeing off for well over a year at my local quilting shop - The Quilters Corner (Keperra, Qld). I kept saying "one day".

Finally I took the plunge and bought this lovely set of 18 FQs.

Don't forget to check back here on Wednesday, 4 February to take part in The Great International Stash Busting Giveaway. I (along with many other bloggers) will be giving away some lovely goodies - but there is no chance I'm giving away these thirties prints! :-)

WIP - Quilts for Jelly-Bean and Sweet-Pea

I have two minkee baby quilts on the go atm. One is up to the quilting stage, and the other is still being pieced. They are for the adorable babies of two of my dearest girlfriends. I actually bought the kit for the first one before my friend Katie was even pregnant (I knew she was trying)!

This is the one that is ready to be quilted, but is now going to be for Em's baby as Katie had a boy so I bought some space-type fabrics to do up a second quilt for him.

I'm determined to get both quilts completed in time for Jelly-Bean's and Sweet-Pea's first birthdays - March and April respectively. Wish me luck!

Saturday, 31 January 2009

The Great International Stash Busting Giveaway

Hi, I'm Kelly and I'm addicted to fabric!

I love ALL my fabric, but in the spirit of giving and spreading the joy, I'm joining in the fun of Ginger Monkey's International Stash-busting Giveaway on 4 February 2009.

I don't know how this giveaway works, but I do know that there are a lot of generous people signing up to give YOU the chance to win some free fabric goodies!!!

Go to Ginger Monkey's blog to find out all the details.

Penguin Bag

I made this bag for my mother-in-law for Christmas 2007.

She and a group of friends love penguins and always buy each other little odds and sods with penguins on them, so I knew she'd appreciate a penguin bag.

I used a pattern out of a magazine for this bag. The original bag was strips of different greens with an appliqued fence and birds on top. I went with black and white prints and found a picture online to use for my appliqued penguin.

I was pretty happy with the end result, especially the penguin!

Showing off!

I'm planning to clean off my sewing table today so I can finally get some sewing done, it's been awhile!

Before I tackle the table, I thought I'd upload some images of things I've actually completed and some of my WIPs.

First up is a gorgeous bag I made doing a class at Thread & Ginger (Victoria Point, Qld) with Linda Mahoney. The pattern for this bag is one of Linda's designs called "Fresh Tote Bag".

Linda made the bag with the divine freshcut fabric from Heather Bailey.

I was going to do mine using Kaffe fabrics - I love his stuff (see Pinwheel Quilt from earlier blog), but I wasn't happy with the way my fabrics looked together, so I decided to use a beautiful Kaufman Japanese fabric and some divine wooden handles I had in my stash.

I love the end result!

Friday, 30 January 2009

2009 EB Fabric Swap

It's been just over a year since I last posted - doesn't time fly!!!

I have quite a few works in progress that I will post here soon, but this post is to display the lovely fabrics I received as part of a birthday fabric swap that I'm participating in.

I'm a shocking photographer, so I hope you can make out these gorgeous fabrics!

The first parcel I received was from Caryn, and it contained a lovely light blue fq with kids drumming, in a plane and tents and trumpets. Very Cute!!!

The next parcel came from Kim who spoilt me with a pretty fq of red, pink & purple tulips, and some smaller pieces of white with blue clovers; red fabric with silver flowers; and blue fabric with red and yellow flowers.

Next were some pretty fabrics from my good friend Kylie, a baby pink fq with little elephants and a soft purple bambi fq. Kylie also gave me a lovely purple fq (she knows my passion well) and some lovely wooden buttons.