New Topic

For everyone's information our group had our last get-together this year to share our 'Fantasy' 12x12 quilts. I am sure that Ashleigh will manage to get these on our blog soon, in between all the demands of being a new Mum to a handsome little baby boy - Lincoln! Once again we have all gone in such different directions, although a few had floral ideas for this topic. We also received our new topic.......'CHILDHOOD'. Wow this topic definitely is one to cause brain overload!!! I have pages of ideas but have narrowed it down to 2 that I would like to try. We have a lot longer for this challenge due to Christmas and New year. Our get-together is on Feb 12th in 2012!!! .......where has this year gone! One of the most exciting things for me is to look at my wall where I have 8 FINISHED (well technically number 8 still needs it's binding!!) 12x12 quilts hanging! They may be small but they represent hours & hours of thought and stitching and lots of new ideas and techniques tried!! I can see little things I would change, but as a whole I am really happy with my results! 4 more to go!! The most exciting thing though will be getting all of our quilts together when we have finished all 12 topics! For anyone considering joining a group like this - GO FOR IT!

International 12x12

Just a note that the International 12x12 group have just announced their new challenge as noted by Bev. They have now changed the size of their quilts to 20x12 and will be doing 5 Quilts this year. You have to check out their blog http://twelveby12.blogspot.com/ , Karen's husband Ted has surprised all the 12's with a glass plate of one of their quilts! They are amazing!!

Fantastic

I watched the movie Labyrinth with my grand daughters and there is more than enough inspiration in there for "Fantasy". Just hope I have left enough time to do what I plan. I am tossing many words around in my head. I note with interest that the International 12's have "Metamorphosis" as their new word - which is one I played with for a while - so that is off the list! Looking forward to the next reveal.

Congrats

Phew Ashleigh, lucky you were organised & did your Fantasy 12x12 early! Congrats on the safe arrival of baby Lincoln on your actual due date - that was clever!! Once again I am lagging behind. I finally sat down yest after a mad mad week & started drawing out my idea for this challenge, which is due on 27th Nov - Eek! Unfort I was soon interrupted, but hopefully my idea will work! If not I will resort back to the one thing that wouldn't budge from my thoughts - Dragons! I look forward to seeing what everyone has done as I struggled coming up with an idea for this, I obviously need to work on my imagination!!!

I'm done.

Never in a million years did I think I could say that I am well and truely finished my next 12x12!! Thanks for the cool topic Sheena, I really liked it and really enjoyed what I created. I thought I better get my A into G to get this one sorted just incase baby decides to come early. Owell i'v got a finished fantasy quilt and still a fat tummy. Now I can relax and wait for when the time comes and for our next topic! Happy sewing :)

Letters Photos

Here are the photos from our latest show and tell from Eileen's theme of "Letters". I really enjoyed doing this topic and once again was blown away with everyone's interpretation of it.

Lets hope I get all the names spelt right this time. I AM VERY SORRY BEV!! And others in the past!

Also some of them didn't photograph very well, sorry about that.

 Lynne Rowe

 Wendy Lang

 Eileen Greenfield

 Sheena Brock

Maree Schroder 

Marj Peirson 

 Donna Ward

Bev Butler 

Mary Raleigh 

Carol Lindale 

Maree Tournier 

Ashleigh Ward

Afterwards!

Isn't it funny how you always seem to see something that you have been looking for after the event!! I tried to find a pic of a NZ postie as I thought they would probably have saddle bags? covering part of their back wheels,didn't find any decent pics & decided my more simple wheel was sufficient! This morn I had to go into Hamilton & saw two posties & they both had those bags. Typical!
I've been home alone for the last two weeks with my two mischievious boys so have missed socialising with all my fellow quilters, so thanks for a lovely avo! Great quilts once again with lots of interesting techniques & so much variety. I have been taunted by our next word "Fantasy" although, luckily I was so tired from my late night getting "Letters" finished, I did manage to get some sleep! I had a couple of thoughts this am but I don't think my 'fantasy' of doing something more simple will happen this month!!!