Mini Quilt

I received my mini quilt kit from Daisy Cottage last week, I couldn't wait to get started on this mini. Here it is all pieced, quilted and binding finished. I love how this one came together.

I just love scrap quilts especially if they are little quilts.

I also received my squares from the Red/White swap that Karen organized. We each received 125 5" squares and they are all fantastic. I'm so happy I signed up for this one, the fabrics are so unique. I've changed my mind so many times on what quilt to make,  I just can't decide, there is so many possibilities.

Boo was feeling left out from my last post, here he is waiting to say "hi". He likes to sit out front of the house and wait for someone to walk by so he can do his little cat tricks of rolling around looking cute.

Swap

WOW has this week ever flown by so fast and I'm behind on quilting and reading blogs as well. It must be the turkey I've been thinking about. It's the Canadian Thanksgiving this coming weekend and everyone has turkey on their mind.

I can now show my goodies from Sharon, Darlene, Judy and Carol, we did a 30's block swap for a number of months and at the end we all exchanged little "Thank you" gifts. Here is the sewing machine cover that Carol made (I didn't have one and it really comes in handy), the little 30's quilt from Judy (so adorable), the zipper pouch from Sharon (oh I have many uses for this one) and you can see the stitching angel Darlene sent below (she sits on my quilt shelf in my kitchen). I made everyone a bag using buggy barn fabrics, you can see it here, it's the one done in pinks and browns. Thanks so much ladies for a great time and fun gifts. Can't wait until the next one....teehee.

Have a great weekend everyone and I hope you are enjoying autumn.

Old Eggs and Block Exchange

Would you look at these adorable eggs, they are so unique being made from old quilts. I feel so lucky to have these in my decor. Karen from Yellow Farmhouse sent these goodies to me. I can't believe these are mine mine all mine to keep. She must have seen me drooling over the ones she showed us on her blog. I love them...Thank you bunches Karen for a thoughtful gift.
These yummy chocolate goodies were hiding behind the eggs. The Carmello bunny is already gone.
If you been reading my blog you might remember I was working on this block for a secret block exchange. Here is my block after my partner has added this gorgeous border, I just LOVE what she added to my block. We all started with a 12" block. Now it's my turn to add or not add and then finish it off. Currently this block is 24" square, any suggestions for what to add? I'm really stumped for ideas right now. We'll have a meeting I think in June to reveal our quilts and also our secret partners. The pictures below are other blocks in the group. I got as many pictures as I could and then my camera battery went dead. Bad timing (bad bad blogger) so I missed a few.
Feathered star has always been a favourite of mine.
Some of the leaves are 3 dimensional.
So sweet for spring.

It was sunny here this morning and then it started to snow this afternoon. Where's spring?

Swap Block

Where did the week go, I've been busy doing stuff but not sure what stuff I've been doing....LOL

I took a class on Sat for making a Buggy Barn quilt called "Star Bright". Silly me I didn't need to start a new project but the class was free and I had a big stack of FQ's waiting for this quilt. Something new I learned in the class is that you can really cute through 13 layers of fabric as long as the blade is new and you have the larger cutter. My 26 blocks were all cut in about 1 hour. I'll post some progress pictures in a future post.

The other more pressing item that I was working on was this block. A swap I've signed up for. My Tues stitching group is having a swap with another stitching group that meets on Thurs. The deadline to finish the block is today and at our meeting this morning I will be exchanging with someone from the Thurs group. The organizers will be matching people based on each others colour choices. When I get my swap partners block I'm to add a border all the way around. I don't remember the size I'm to make it but I'm sure someone will offer that info today. After I'm done adding the border than it's returned to it's owner. This will be a small table topper when done. My block is from Kim Diehl's book and the block is called Country Whig Rose. You can see Darlene has done all 4 blocks.

Next on my list is to work on the Chocolate Swap from Sharon's blog. We are to make something to put our chocolates in (decorate the box) and send off to our swap partner. My swap partner is Annie from Australia, I'm very excited to get to know her likes and dislikes for chocolate, dark or light, chewing or crunchie? So many questions. I'm not sure what I'm going to do, waiting for those creative juices to start flowing.