Jackie in NZ update

Hi all, Susan and I collected Jackie from the Auckland airport last Tuesday. We had a couple of days eating sightseeing and visiting quilt shops in the area. Have some photos on Jackie's camera but her memory stick does not fit my laptop. She will upload them when she is home.
Thursday Jackie and I wandered our way down to Havelock North via some more sights and shops!

We have done some sewing since being here. Jackie has just finished putting together a Disappearing Nine Patch - or is that disappearing Mum!

I have made some slippers - peeking out in a photo below.
And I've just finished my heart for Jackie. I've not done any beading before but really enjoyed it. Much faster than I thought it would be.

We will catch up with Lucy and then sadly Jackie has to go home on Friday. Margaret, no I won't get to the Birmingham this year, maybe next!
Well better go and attend to the NZ Lamb roast for dinner. J.

Heart for Jackie

Phew!  Just managed to complete the block in April-shall post it out tomorrow.The other blocks were very creative-I took my idea from a Thimbleberries pattern for table mats! I added the check fabric Jackie, it was some Dutch fabric bought years ago when in Holland.

Tomorrow our textile group meets to make bunting for the village diamond jubilee celebrations-hope the weather improves ,wet,wet,wet and gales.

I think our grandchildren are like Joanne's cat-they just keep coming back!!

Have a good trip Jackie,will J be heading this way for the quilt show at the NEC?I bumped into Sue Secker the other day they are going back to HK next week for another couple of years.

Jenny- the quilting bee is gorgeous!

Mx

Hi all,
I owe Karen an apology. I have not sent her block yet. My machine has been acting up and I finally got it working. I will send the block with my fabric for May's block. I saw this cute ornament and thought of all of you. It is a Jim Shore "Quilting Bee".

Chicken Pattern coming soon

Wendy, I forgot to say, I will post details of the chicken pattern as soon as I get the chance. I have to edit the original as it was wrong and scratch my brain as to how I will get it on the blog so the scale of the bits is right. Watch this space. J.

Catching Up

Hi,  I have had several visitors so have not been keeping up with the blog since Susan was here. I have had great fun catching up on all the news.
What a hard act to follow with Jackie's heart block! Just love what you have all done. I have to get a wriggle on as she will be here soon! Yippee.
Your Chicken door stops are cute Jackie. Beats my cubes!
I've not had a great deal of time for stitching just lately but the knitted fabric door mat has progressed, though still has about 8" to go, have to cut more fabric.
Marmite has been back to the old house 11 times now. He is getting more sneeky about being brought home. This last time took 3 days and several trips before we coaxed him out and whisked him into the cage. He is now booked into a cattery on Saturday for 3 weeks. Just have to try and keep him home until then. They are full at the moment as it is school holidays here. Hopefully it will cure him. If not I will be putting flyers in letter boxes around our old house asking for a new owner.
Enough catching up on email - off to sit in front of the fire and hand quilt now.
Happy stitching. J.

Loving the hearts...

I have just returned home from a weekend in Brighton and seen the lovely hearts posted on line.  They are all stunning, and all so different which is exactly what I was hoping for.  Wendy, your's has also arrived in the post (I will post a picture of it soon for all to see).  Thank you all!

By the way, I was in Brighton to cheer for my husband Pete who ran the marathon and raised £1600 for the children's charity ChildLine - I'm very proud of him.

And today I've started packing my suitcase for my long-awaited trip to New Zealand on Sunday.  I'm off to see Joanne and Susan (and hopefully meet Lucy) - can't wait!

Jackie

My block for Jackie

I hope Jackie likes my take on a "single red heart". I raw edge appliqued the hearts onto the background and for good measure added a layer of batting to the back. After the applique was done I very carefully cut the excess batting away, which results in a sort of Trapunto effect. 
Cheers
Vreni x