Basting disaster!

Yesterday I spent the day working on my quilt.  I had been to Spotlight last Friday and bought a can of basting spray.

I have used basting spray for many years and think it is a great product - JUST NOT THIS ONE!

Lots of smell and mess and not a lot of sticking!

This will have to go in the "rubbish" pile right next to the birch sewing machine needles!  Lesson learnt!

But there is an up side - I put the quilt on the table, aircon on full blast and basted by hand.  Much better!

Then up to the sewing room and started machine quilting:

Sneak preview

I felt GREAT at the end of the day with how much I had done!

Today is a "rest" day e.g ibuprofen and tiger balm.  Oh the things we endure for the love of quilting!

And.....this morning I woke up to a message that I had sold more of my yummy ice dyes online.

Yeah!

Jokamamo Textiles

Happy Quilting!

And the winners are........

Thank you to all who participated in the Blog Hop and left comments on my blog.  It was great to meet you all and see what you are all doing in the Quilting World!  Thank you for all the encouraging comments about my hand dyed fabrics!

A HUGE BIG THANK YOU to The Quilting Gallery for organising this Blog Hop.  This is the first time I have participated and I had a blast!

The "officials" overseeing the drawing of two names

But..... there can only be one  two winners and they are........(drum roll)

Vicki H (posted 10-3)

and 

The Quilted Dog (posted 13-3)

Congratulations to you both!

I will send you an email letting you know that you have won.  If you can please email me your postal address and I will get these ice dyes in the mail  first thing on Monday morning!

Jokamamo Textiles - Hand-dyed and Unique fabrics

My shop is still open, so come and check out the fabrics!

Happy Quilting!

Marianne

My Website is UP Giveaway!

Yes Folks!  My new Website is up and running:

Jokamamo Textiles

Here you can find:

 beautiful Hand dyes, Shirbori Dyes, Tie Dyes,Ice Dyes, Distressed, Rusted and Discharged Fabrics

Leave me a message telling me what you think of my site

 and I will send the first 2 people to reply a fat quarter of 

one of these ice dyed fabrics!

A Huge Big Thank you to Seth from Plectrum Communications for all his hard work - It looks great!

p.s There is also a link on the side bar

Winner of 200th Post Giveaway

Thank you everyone that replied to my 200th Post Giveaway.

I had great fun looking up all the Art Quilters that have inspired you -

Laura and Linda Kenstall
Wendy Butler Berns
Valori Wells
Pat Pauly
Elaine Quehl
Elizabeth Barton
Hollis Chatelain
Caryl Fallert

Every now and again it is good to see what others are doing (and how) to get the creative juices flowing.  My head is now crammed with cool ideas!  Thank you

The winners of the 200th Post Giveaway are:

12 Light coloured fat quarters - Hueisei

4 ice dyed fat quarters - Laura

Congratulations! and I will email you both to get your postal address.

Also this week I completed my challenge quilt for the group - art quilts around the world: http://aroundtheworldin20quilts.blogspot.sg/

The challenge was to make a portrait and make it no bigger than A3 size.
Check out the other cool portraits too......

The combination of Christmas, going home to NZ and guests meant that I procrastinated over this project until the 30th of Jan (due the 31st) but I did get it done on time.  Funny how working to a deadline is usually a good incentive!

Fusible applique, machine embroidery, machine quilted.  It has peltex inside rather than batting to make it stiffer.  Loved using the New Zealand fabric to represent my "kiwi" ness!

Here is a sneak preview of my next project......

Happy Quilting everyone!