Colour Study complete

Yesterday the weather was terrible in Singapore.  Lots and lots of rain and thunder and lightning.  Major flooding in several parts of Singapore...waterfalls in shopping centres etc etc.

And it was a great day to stay home and finish my quilt!

Here at last is the colour study quilt.  This quilt is based on a pattern found in Gloria Loughmans book.

I am really pleased with the quilting in this piece.  Sometimes simple is best.

This was the first time in more than I week that I had time to get behind the sewing machine and I do admit to having had withdrawl symptoms.  Hmm think I'm addicted?!

I have finally managed to set up a flickr account and have loaded all my photos.  Check them out in the side bar.

The kids are finishing the school year tomorrow, (Yeah) and so there will be little time for sewing for a while....I guess I will have to spend the time thinking about  new projects....

Happy quilting!

Seeing Blue

Yesterday morning I was all ready to sit down at my sewing machine for some serious quilting when I realised that my power box was broken.  I already wasn't able to use two of the power points and now the last two were also on their way out.  Time to buy a new one.  My old iron was also on its way out as the wires were starting to protrude from the cord.  Not good.  So off to the shops I went. 

Here is my new iron.  Yeah!  sorry didn't add a photo of the power box...I mean...it's a power box!

Anyway after that I managed to start on the blue part of my latest quilt.  Here is my progress:

Ok it doesn't look like much but it took ages cutting and fusing all those small diamonds!

Today it was ANZA quilt group and I sold some of my fabric postcards and my hand-dyed fabrics.  Yeah!

Yes, today was a great day!

Happy Quilting!

The green is complete

Yesterday, I finished the green part of my new project. 

Now for the blue and the red parts and lucky for me my local quilt shop has just announced a sale!  Watch this space!

Also yesterday, one of my friends at the ANZA quilt group had a book about fabric postcards.  It was really cool and the mind just boggles with possiblities.........Hmmm I feel a new project coming up!

Happy Quilting

So much to tell.....

Last week was an incredibly busy week.  We had friends Ron and Wendy come from New Zealand to visit (for Wendys 40th birthday) and the kids had a week school holidays.

On Monday my husband, son Luke and daughter Celine and I  finally went and visited Universal studios here in Singapore on Sentosa Island.  The weather was perfect as it was not too hot.  We went on a couple of the rides but we all gave the huge rollercoasters a miss.  Brooke was at home busy making a gezillion cupcakes for a school fundraiser.

We sent Brooke off shopping with Wendy on Thursday and I went to the water treatment plant with Ron as that is his line of work.  It was really interesting and seeing I'm not much of a shopper (except for fabric) it was a good solution. During the week we ate at a couple of local hawker centers which is much much cheaper than any of the hotels.  (and pretty yummy too) Friday we all chilled out at the beach on Sentosa.  Misty came along too and is really getting the hang of swimming in the sea.

Misty at least was smart enough NOT to get sunburned....unlike the rest of us.

Friday night, Ron and Wendy took us out for dessert and drinks at the 57th floor of the Marina Bay Sands.  The view was spectucular although it was VERY VERY high.  Dessert was yummy and even more yummy was the Cloudy Bay Dessert wine that was given to us by the staff.

We sat way up at the top!

Today everything was back to normal. (what's normal?!) I started off the morning with a long walk to get rid of all those extra kilos that I accumulated last week.  Then it was back into the sewing room to work on my new project (not yet finished).  This is a project from Gloria Loughmans book. I am hoping to also do a version in red and in blue.

Well I think we are all up to date again.....happy quilting!