The Buddette Mug Rug Swap 2012

I hope you have all had a wonderful Easter week.   Our clocks here in the UK sprung forward just after midnight on Saturday and I’m hoping the weather follows suit and Spring arrives.  Meanwhile today is lovely and sunny but oh so cold for the time of year.    The daffodils are blooming so they must think it’s spring, they are such a cheerful sight.
Now last year, around about this time, a small group of online quilting friends, The Buddettes as we call ourselves, agreed to do a mug rug swap for Christmas instead of other gifts.   Although we had months most of us typically left it to the last minute didn’t we, lol, any how all have swapped now and received so I can now show you the results.
First up, the beautiful mug rugs that were made for me.

First one from Marianna,    second one from Rosemary,   third one from Frummie,

fourth and fifth (reverse side of fourth) from Cyn and the last one (but not least) from Rosa.   They are all wonderful!!  Thank you so much to all my Buddettes!


Now here are the ones I made for everyone:

Basket and fourpatch for Rosa, square basket for Frummie, (my own design mug rug except the idea for the embroidered flowers,those were adapted from one of Jenny’s of Elephantz patterns.
    
Purple for Marianna,   Repo brown and red for Rosemary, Jo Morton fabrics for Elaine,  (designed by the Patchsmith)
 
And the final one for Cyn.  Cyn loves orchids, pink and green. Pattern found on www.youcanmakethis.com  here  which I adapted for appliqué.

I’m linking this post with Connie’s  Tuesday Linky party on her blog Freemotion by the River.

Happy Quilting!
hugs
Ellyx

Rainbow Scrappy Challenge 2013 Last Saturday for March and Orange

Happy Easter to you all!   It is the last Saturday for Orange and by the skin of my teeth (do teeth have skin?) I finished my blocks for this challenge.

Here they are:

First up my little orange cross blocks (does anyone know their proper name?)  

Here is how they look together with the last two months’ blocks:  Can you see the mistake I made with the orange cross blocks?

After seeing Linda’s wonderful D4P quilt here which she finished recently I thought I would make extra D4Ps to go with the ones I made last year so I would have a bigger quilt.  So I made a couple more orange ones and a couple of neutral ones.  I need to make extra pink and purple to catch up.

Also looking orangy-ish  is the long wash cloth for my DH who’s birthday it is today.   I was up until 3am last night getting it finished!  It is done with Tunisian crochet and I’ve mixed up the stitches a little.  I had no pattern I just made it up as I went along  played.   It is very stretchy.   DH likes long cloths and usually uses bar towels.  It has orange, yellow and dark red in it and is about 24 x 7 inches.

Lastly, a picture of my bunny Princess Penelope:

I think that’s it for now :)  Pop over to Soscrappy and see what everyone else has done for their last Orange Saturday. 

Have a great weekend!!

Hugs

Ellyx

Rainbow Scrappy Saturday

The colour for this month’s Rainbow Scrappy Challenge is Orange.   I don’t have many orange fabrics that I currently like but I did manage to find just enough to make my orange Boxed In block.   Here it is: And here is how it looks with the first two blocks I haven’t managed a lot of sewing this past few weeks since I’ve been playing hooky…… as in crocheting.   I did complete a cylinder cushion cover, which I started last year for my son.  It is in mix crochet stitches. Here are some photos of it. 
   
 
I had planned to make the stripes going the other way, however, some of the patterns pulled in the sides and it ended up looking hour glass shape :)  So I turned them so they ran across the length of the pillow.  If I ever make another of these type of covers I’ll do it in the round….. famous last words.
It was Mother’s Day here in the UK last Sunday and I got some lovely flowers and chocolates from DD and DS, however, DD also made me a little needle felted wall hanging and also bought my ball jointed doll a new wig.  (She bought me the doll as a surprise for my birthday last year)  I’m not a collector but my DD is and she thought I’d like one :))  I think I’ll need to get around to making her a quilt some day. This was my DD’s first attempt at needle felting and it is her own design.
and a Here is ‘Kiera’ my very own Ball Jointed Doll with her new hair in my favourite colour red.  It suits her skin colouring better than the ash blonde of her first wig.
And lastly, for now, I wanted to show you some little African Flowers and a daffodil  which I crocheted.I made these African flowers using Heidi’s (of Heidi Bears) instructions here .And the Daffy is made using Lucy’s (of Attic 24 )  pattern here.   I’ve yet to make the leaves.
Okay, that’s all for me for now.  I do have a plan to post something else sometime this week though :))
Meanwhile, pop on over to Angela’s blog Soscrappy  and see what everyone else has done with their orange scraps this week.
Happy Stitching!
Ellyx

 

Scrap Happy Saturday Challenge 2013

This is the last Saturday for Soscrappy’s February’s RSC challenge of using purple scraps.  Here are my offerings :-

I completed my little rail fence blocks in purple, these will be 4 inches finished:

Here they are with last month’s pink rail fence blocks and the Boxed In blocks of both January and February showing a possible layout idea:

I also completed a little mug rug using my purple scraps:

  

The back is on the left and the front on the right.

The front is a Mug Rug pattern by The Patchsmith  called April Sky.   I’ve renamed mine  Purple Rain Sky :)   I did ‘Improv’ piecing for the back. I had a lot of fun with this project.

Lastly, I did get some Dear Jane Blocks done in the past few weeks but not as many as Angela ;)  Here are my offerings:

H-3  Berry Baskets in purple and G-11 Decisions, Decisions in pink.   I have a couple more purple ones I hope to stitch up tomorrow.

 

So that’s if from me :)  Check out what everyone else has been doing for this last Saturday in February  HERE .  I am early for a change ;) but there will be postings over the weekend and even maybe on Monday, so do check back there are so many neat projects on the go. 

 

Happy Stitching

Ellyx

Quilting Gallery 'Show and Tell'

Hello everyone,
I have entered my "Tilde's Summer Scrap Challenge" quilt (shown in my previous post) into this week's Quilting Gallery 'Show and Tell'  challenge.
If you wish, please would you consider voting for my quilt (though only if you like mine the best).  There are some lovely entries so competition is fierce ;))

Here is the link to the voting page, you will need to scroll down a bit to see all the entries and further down is the voting poll:  http://quiltinggallery.com/2013/02/15/vote-now-and-give-away-fluttering-hearts-quilts/    

If you include a comment in the comments section on the Quilting Gallery voting page then you will be entered into their give-away of a bundle of fabrics.
Thank you and good luck :)

Happy Stitching!