Lets play catch up – Part 1

Oh well it is safe to say that I have definitely blown my plan to blog at least once a week, let see we are at week 18 and I have done 8 blog post this year. I can safely say that you have not been missing out of much, I do however plan to catch you all up on what I have done since I blogged last.

I recently partook in a pincushion swap with the Melbourne Modern Quilt Guild and was lucky enough to receive this amazing pincushion from Alice. Alice does not own a sewing machine and does all her sewing by hand.

I made a pincushion for Rachel and in the rush to get my pin cushion finished I forgot to take a photo, however you can see a picture of it  here

The main lot of sewing I have been doing is the block for MMQG Oh Beehave quilt bee, these are a few that I have done recently

For Marg

 

Two star blocks for Rachel

 

I have also made some for Alissa, Anna & Gina but I don’t seem to have taken photos of those ones before sending them off.

My Creative Space

Opps it has been over a month since I last blogged, and here I was planning at least a post a week this year, oh well.
Why I have not been posting, no major reason, I just have not had time
In fact I have had so little time to sew that it was around 4:30 the afternoon before Bastian started his first session of Kinder that I realised that I had yet to start his Backpack, I had bought the material and this pattern ages ago but had put it aside to “do when I had a chance” over the Christmas holidays. Well the holidays were over and while he did have other backpacks he could use I was determined that he would use the one I had planned. Well 9 hrs later (yes that is correct I was up to 2am) in between feeding Lachie, having to settle him back to sleep on multiple occasions and of course eating, it was all finished. Bastian loves it which made it all worth the lack of sleep, although my darling husband almost got a kick in the shins when he asked me in I had just recovered an existing backpack.

 

You may have noticed a Facebook page link over on the right hand side, that is one of the reason for my lack of time, my Mum and I had set up a little business selling a variety of handmade items. So far we have had a stall one two occasions at Mornington Wednesday Main Street market and hope to get a regular spot there closer to Christmas.
As for other quilting news I have finished Bastian Plane Quilt, but will blog that in a separate post later.
I have also decided on my material that I am going to use for the SIT name bag swap

I had a lot of trouble choosing these as I don’t have a lot of orange in my stash and nothing that is bright and cheerful like all the other badges I have seen around. I was just about to give up and make a trip to buy some more fabric when I found this one which I think will work well with what I have planned. That is my project for this weekend, what’s yours?
More Creative Spaces here

Auction Update

There is only two more days to place a bid on my auction to raise money for the Premier’s Disaster Flood Relief Fund and of course there is many, many more auctions and raffles here on the Master List, a couple of my favourites would have to be this quilt kit, this selection of patterns and fabric,and the same here, this gorgeous cardigan, child's teepee and of course the one that has left everyone gobsmacked

I was finally able to get my 3yr old son to model the apron for me so I know have a much nicer photo showing you the size of the apron, please note that he is a tall three year old.

An update about the finishing time. As a lot of us were finishing our auctions at midnight, Toni has recommended that we finish them a little earlier to make it easier for people to put in last minute bids so my auctions will now finish at 9pm on Monday the 24th of January 2010.

A note about PAYMENT...please make your payment into the Premier's Disaster Relief Fund.  It is important that you provide me with proof of payment before I post out the apron to you. 

If payment is made by Credit Card, a receipt will be emailed to you.  This email should then be forwarded to me so that I can verify payment amount.

If payment is made by internet bank deposit transfer, you can save a pdf file at the time of making the transfer. 

In the worst case scenario (i.e. receipt email has been deleted or pdf of bank deposit has not been made) you can take a snapshot of your bank statement on your computer screen and crop the appropriate area so that it displays only the donation information.  That way, I can still seeing your proof of payment, but not viewing your whole bank statement.

I have closed comments on this post, please post any auction bids on the actual auction post over here

Queensland Flood Appeal Auction

To help raise money for the flood effected Queenslanders, I am running an auction here on my blog. I hope that this little contribution can help rebuild the lives and homes for some of those who have lost so much.
My mother and I have recently started making items that my cousin sells via her Facebook page, so we have decided to auction off this child's apron. So put in a bid, all money goes direct to the Premier's Flood relief appeal

Please bid and/or share this link on your blog, via Facebook or Twitter and hopefully we can raise some much needed money for the Queensland Flood Appeal.
How this auction works:
1. Bidding will start at $10 (Australian).
2. You can place a bid by leaving a comment on this blog post with your bid amount and email address. Please make sure that your bid is higher than the previous bidder.
3. Your bid must be in whole dollar increments.
4. This auction is open to everyone, however overseas residents will be charged actual shipping costs, however postage is free for Australian residents
5. The auction begins NOW and will END at 9pm EDST on Monday 24th January 2011.
6. At the close of the auction, I will contact the winner (please make sure your bid comment includes your email address). The winner will pay the winning amount directly into the Premier's Flood Relief Appeal and send me proof of payment via email. Once proof of payment has been received, I will post your package to you.
Auction rules borrowed straight from Toni's blog :)

And once you have bid here why don't you go and check out all the other auction on the Master List on Toni's Blog

ETA -  I have changed the previously posted photo as I was finally able to get my 3yr old son to model the apron

Queensland Flood Relief Auction

Toni from Make It Perfect is putting together a master list of people who are auctioning off items either via there blog or facebook to support the QLD Flood appeal. While I am sitting in watching the devastation unfold I thought the least I could do was offer an item for auction.

My mother and I have recently started making items that my cousin sells via her facebook page, we have decided to auction of one of the children's aprons so come back on Monday and put in a bid, all money go direct to the Premier's Flood relief appeal

No reply blogger

I keep on meaning to post about this since I first read about it myself a couple of months ago.

Since changing my settings to have comments left on my blog emailed to me I have noticed that a lot of the comments came through as no-reply

Read this post here for a better explanation as to what it us and more importantly how to fix it.

I have to admit that when I first read about I assumed that I had mine set correctly but on fact I too was a no-reply blogger.


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2011

Now I don't do resolutions more like very broad extremely loose plans. So with that my plans for 2011 are

- to not buy any new fabric unless it is for a current project or planned project (the exemption to this is SIT in March)

- to manage my time a lot better to enable me to be a much better Mummy / Wife / Person

- to manage our money better by thinking about what we are spending and doing proper menu plans and therefore shopping lists

- to be a better Blogger and I can say that I have already found a way to do that. I noticed on this blog she had a signature saying posted via Blogpress. I have been after a working IPhone app to do blogposts for a while and have finally found one so I can now blog anywhere :)

Now for quilting plans

- Anna's block for Oh Beehave (by this Saturday)
- MIL's quilt (ASAP belated Christmas present)
- backpack for Bastian (who starts 3rd old Kinder 11th Feb)
- bunting for Bastian's room
- the other blocks for Oh Beehave as required
- the odd DJ block here and there

Finish the following
- Monkey & Lion's cuddle quilt
- Bastian's plane quilt
- Charm Pack quilt along quilt

In order to try and increase my creative output I think a trip to Ikea might be in order currently my sewing storage is made up of a shelf in the linen closet


Some tubs in the corner of our bedroom


And one very messy sewing area


Hopefully I will have an after photo for you sometime this week