Eye Spy Adventures

Quilters are slowly finishing their quilt tops after my two year BOM Eye Spy Adventures





I really love my quilt, it's definitely in daily use ATM in our house. 
Initially I only designed this quilt so that I could publish a lot of block patterns that had not been published in any of my other quilt books. But I ended up falling in love with this quilt design by the time I finished making it. 
The book Eye Spy Adventures by Marianne Jeffrey is now available on Amazon if  you missed the BOM and would like to make this quilt.


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Dog Jacket/Coat

 Today I made a new dog jacket for Betty! 

Betty is a rescued chihuahua that's been with us five months. The nights are getting colder here in Western Australia as winter approaches and we didn't have any jackets in her size, so I whipped up this one using scrappy improv pieced blocks from my ready made blocks pile for the patchwork. 
There's a dog jacket PDF tutorial available on my website:
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Australiana Adventures FREE BOM

Tomorrow marks the beginning of a new block of the month. I've been hosting annual block of the months since 2015! This year we're starting my Australiana Adventures pattern.

You can join the fun, send me a message, there's an email contact link in the left sidebar of this blog. Today I gathered everything I needed and got organised ready to begin.
Background fabric: a Painters Palette solid called Aruba 
Feature fabric: a green solid I pulled from stash (not sure which manufacturer or name) 
Backing fabric: a cute koala print pulled from my stash
The colours for all the animal blocks will come from my solids scrap basket as much as possible. 
Then I started by pattern testing block one a gum leaf. Eucalyptus trees are native to Australia and are the most common tree here. There are many varieties and the leaf colour varies from deep green to sage green. 
We'll be making eight of this block and then simply orienting the blocks in different ways to ensure they look like leaves floating to the ground in amongst the animal blocks in the final layout.  


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Australiana Adventures BOM

My new FREE BOM starts tomorrow!

To participate you must have a Facebook account because I host this BOM in a small private Facebook group that is for participants ONLY.
Technique: FPP
Level: moderate to advanced FPP skills required
Participants are expected to sew along and share progress or they will be removed from the group, so ONLY serious applicants need bother apply.
If you want to join the BOM message me via the contact me link in the left sidebar of this blog


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Scrappy 600

Last year I made seven busy print scrappy 100 patch blocks. 

Last week I finally finished a scrap quilt top with six of those blocks! 

I stuck with simple white sashing and borders because this quilt is busy enough LOL.
It has now been free motion quilted with a basic meandering, I bound it with scrappy binding too and it's been washed, dried on the line and is ready to use. 

I'll use the seventh block to make a cushion cover one of these days but for now it's still waiting for it's moment. 


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