These cute peppermint blocks make a row in my "Christmas Cheer" quilt - the quilt I chose for this year's Aussie B&C Bee.  May is my month and the Santa Hats and Christmas Stockings will start to arrive.

There has been some "Nine Patch Waltz" progress

but before sewing the blocks into rows I was, once again, distracted and cut out blocks for the next few months B&C Bee girls.

"Lighthearted" - June

"Patchwork Sky" - July

"Patchwork Sky" - August

"Lucky" - September

I'm having a week off after Jenni and Kurt's wedding with plans to watch movies and sew.  I have some quilts cut out and at various stages ("Dashing", "Nine Patch Waltz", "Sweet Escape", "Long Time Gone" plus some others that haven't been touched for years) - last night I decided to start cutting another quilt "Fresh" from Thimble Blossoms' book "Simply Retro". 

I first made this quilt in 2015 using FigTree & Co fabrics.

The original pattern doesn't have the four patch blocks inside the diamond shape.  This time I'm going to make a square on point with half-square triangles.

In 2017 I made a lap-quilt "Fresh" using "Kumari Holiday" fabrics.

I have always planned to make one in Bonnie and Camille fabrics. 

Four sleeps and my darling girl will be a Bride.

Knitting

Last October I started knitting for our newest sweetheart and finished the last cardigan this week - most of the knitting has been done during lunchtimes at work.  Hard to believe he is 7 weeks old already.

Here's hoping he likes to wear hand-knits - his sister won't wear anything woollen or with buttons.

A couple of quick-knits out of Bendigo Woollen Mills Luxury 4 ply.

The pattern for the grey cardigan was a bit weird with the button bands knitted as you go - much prefer the finish of separately-knitted button bands.

As of 6.00 pm last night The Wedding sewing is finished.

In between wedding sewing, I've been working on "Dashing" blocks - these blocks come together very quickly and make a fun design,

Tonight I'll be cutting out some Aussie Bonnie and Camille Beehive blocks.

All Wrapped Up

This Christmas quilt top was finished in January but the backing fabric took ages to arrive.  It's a pretty quilt designed by FigTree and Co.

Bonnie and Camille's "Vintage Holiday" fabrics were used for the quilt top and backing.  I love the silver dot fabric for the sashings, the pretty aqua ribbon fabric backing and candy stripes are always the perfect binding.

I chose "Rainbow Hearts" for the quilting and I think Karen was relieved to have a change from Orange Peel.

One more quilt to come back from Sarah and then I will be up-do-date for a while.

Two Butterfly Patch Quilts

Earlier this year I made two "Butterfly Patch" quilts.  The first one is in Bonnie and Camille's "The Good Life" range of fabrics.

The quilts were sent to Sarah to quilt with wavy lines and I'm so happy with them.

The second quilt was made with Bonnie and Camille's "Smitten" fabric.  I added a border to this quilt to make it queen bed size and also made a pair of matching pillow cases.

The Smitten quilt was given to Jenni and Kurt for their engagement/wedding present.

Sylvia's Bridal Sampler

These are the first two photos I posted relating to "Sylvia's Bridal Sampler" on 20 May 2010, after my friend Diann bought me the book for my birthday.

The quilt was finished on 20 April 2019 (it's not my oldest UFO).

Me and My Sister's "Oh Cherry Oh" fabric has been used for the quilt top and it's is made up of 64 traditional quilt blocks - I decided to leave out all the foundation pieced and applique blocks and just make the blocks I could machine piece.  Some of them have very small pieces and accuracy was an issue for me, especially in the early stages.

So pleased to have this quilt finished.

I asked Karen to do Orange Peel quilting on this one - I think she'll be fed up with that design for a while.

Easter Break

The Easter break was a fun time spent with family and friends, starting on Thursday afternoon with Gulliver's Easter Hat Parade at pre-school.  Gulli's hat was a mega, epic, original that he decorated with loads of pictures of his favourites:  Batman, Star Wars and Spiderman as well as chickens, eggs, rabbits, ribbons, pipecleaners, googly eyes etc.

On Good Friday I went to our annual sewing day with Karen and Rhonda - it was a shame Paula couldn't join us.

I made some "Dashing" blocks.  FigTree's new "Chantilly" fabrics are so pretty.

The design is very clever in how the blocks line up to make the white arrows and lines through the quilt top.

Saturday I finally cut out my skirt for the wedding, started to cut out my jacket and then did some cooking for the family lunch on Easter Sunday.

Easter Sunday was such a lovely day with the family.  Michael, Peta and Gulli were away for the weekend so Little Sweetheart had the Easter egg hunt to herself.

That night I had dinner at Robyn's along with Lynell and Darren.  We had pizzas made in Robyn's wood-fired pizza oven and then Baileys shots in Easter eggs - they were all yum.

Monday was the day to finish cutting out and start sewing my wedding clothes.  The jacket is almost finished and I'll make the skirt on Thursday (ANZAC Day).  Mum and I visited Michael, Peta and Gulli in the afternoon - always good fun to see them.

Spent most evenings sewing down bindings on three quilts - one more quilt to come home and then I'll be done with binding for a while.

A great long weekend.