Can you believe it!

On Thursday night I attended the Darwin Patchworkers and Quilters Exhibition opening....and guess what? My Peppermint Sparkle (pattern from Applique Outside the Lines - Piece O' Cake Designs) won a Highly Commended prize...

...quite surprised, but very happy....especially since it languished in the cupboard unquilted for a couple of years....just goes to show what can happen when you dust off those UFO's!

Speaking of UFO's....after Mum and I saw the V&A exhibition, Mum decided she really needed to finish this quilt....it only needed the binding...the pattern for this quilt is in Kaffe Fassett's V&A Quilts. This quilt is huge, 109" x 110".

And guess whose bed that goes on? Yes, that's right, me! Wooot woot.

My other entry in the exhibition was my Bonnie Hunter Scrappy Trip (find pattern here), which people were quite interested in...mainly because all those colours pack a  punch.

Mum's second quilt in the exhibition...a pattern from Flying Fish Kits....I really love all those japanese naomi fabrics...

And aren't these 1/2 hexagon so sweet....Mum is very nifty with the needle and especially with appliqué....so she is able to whip through binding like butter...I think she got 18 metres of binding (two quilts) done in less than a week!

I have more photos to share, but the house is waking up, so I think I might go an make brekky for everyone....scrambled eggs with chives might the order of the morning :)

Too Much Pink is barely enough!

A couple of weeks ago  I blogged about feeling very distracted not knowing what projects I wanted to be working on...so I have given in to myself and started (yes I know!) something I have been wanting to do for ages, but haven't because I already had a pink quilt (Pink Blooms) that wasn't done...well now that's finished, and there is yaaaardage of pink fabrics in my cupboard I have started making Peppermint Sparkle, out of Applique Outside the Lines (Piece O' Cake Designs)...it all starts with the background, from your favourite pastel pinks...

Then playing around with fabric and shapes...

Starting to take form now....

Luvin' that hot pink! I have used Visoflex to iron the fabric shapes onto the background...

The next bit is already to go, I like to cut out the centres of the visoflex pieces so it is easier to do the quilting as the quilt is not too stiff, and the fabric doesn't bubble once it's washed.

I will be raw edge appliqueing the pieces down, once the top is complete...I am enjoying putting this together, so this is what I will be working on this weekend!