"Texture" has opened my eyes to things I took for granted.  The plane tree in our garden has the most beautiful bark peeling off in layers.  The cheese grater has ferocious texture.  The gum emporer moth on the pepper tree has fierce little bits that poke out all along her body.  The tile roof across the road has changing patterns depending on the angle at which you look at it. Mmmmmmm.

Fantasy 12x12 Quilts

Wendy Lang

Sheena Brock


Mary Raleigh

Marj Peirson

Maree Tournier

Maree Schroder

Lynne Rowe

Eileen Greenfield

Donna Ward

Carol Lindale

Bev Butler

Ashleigh Ward

(Ashleigh - hope you don't mind me uploading our photos! Sorry not as good a job as you usually do, not squared up properly etc!!)

Fantasy Quilts

Here is a group photo of our Fantasy quilts from end of 2011. Sorry it may be a bit small.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to everyone. It is hard to believe that January is nearly halfway through already!! I managed to make a start on my Childhood 12x12 quilt yesterday. Luckily things are going to plan so far so fingers crossed that it will continue this way! Once again a small quilt but masses of work to achieve the results I want! We are supposed to be going camping this weekend so pleased to have made a start as it won't be coming with us!! I am not overly keen on camping due to this random rainy weather - esp since last year the campground ended up flooded. The rain was so heavy that our tent leaked badly so it was a long night. Fingers crossed !! Anyway hope everyone had a lovely Christmas and New Year and best wishes for a great 2012!!

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.