Another block swap quilt

This quilt, finished yesterday, is made from blocks swapped with an online quilters group. So its very scrappy - isnt it interesting how the diagonal patches hold it together!?

Two more quilts finished this week

Jackie and Audrey both finished their "70 squares" quilts this week. So simple, and dont they look great?

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Exciting news!

Our quilting group is expanding: some of the ladies (and men if they want
;-)) of Jimboomba Christian Family Church are joining me to learn patchwork and make quilts for the Sandra Jones Centre in Zimbabwe! Its going to be fun, and we'll make some beautiful quilts to bring healing to these traumatised children.

Jackie and I have made up some partial kits for the first project, which will be a medallion quilt. I'm so looking forward to beginning!

Here's a photo of the type of quilt these first ones will be. Different fabrics of course

Another Ricky-Timms-inspired quilt

I had fun with this one. Joan sent me the lower left bright fish fabric, and it looked like it needed "convergencing". I pulled out lots of brights to go with it, and a few squares for top and bottom, and the border. I like it!

Back to the sewing rooom

I've finally got over my knee op, and finished the second of the snowball quilts made fwith the blocks from quiltwithchristnzau. Its looking good, and was so easy to make up!

Jackie and I had another productive sewing day yesterday; we pin basted two quilts, then she quilted one of them and I finished the snowball one then almost quilted another - thats eleven completed for the next posting, and another two almost done!

Snowball I Spies

Remember a little while ago I put up a pic of 80 snowball blocks? Half of them are now in a quilt! Its come up so nicely! And its label says "made by Cathy and the ladies of quiltwithchristnzau. Thanks so much to all the makers.
The other quilt will be made after my 3 weeks holiday - cant wait to get away in our van!

More lovely fabric

Today the mail brought a 3kg bag jam-packed with lovely big pieces of fabric for our quilts. They came from the stash of Anjii, who started Quilting Down Under yahoo group. She was a lovely person who died quite suddenly a few months ago. Her friend Rosemary sent me some of her fabric for our orphanage quilts, So thank you so much to Rosemary and to Anjii.

Cobblestones

This quilt was suggested by Jackie and made by Cathy. I really like how it turned out - the dark blue is a great contrast to the various flower fabrics!

Inspiration by Ricky Tims

I had my Ricky Tims Convergence Quilts book out the other day, to make a wall hanging. Jackie experimented with the Harmonic Convergence using some ugly-ish fabrics, and it turned out so well we thought this would be a great centre for an orphanage quilt. So I found some pretty fabrics and had a go. A few borders and some charm squares later, and here is the finished product. I think I'll do this again - It was fun!

New photos!

A few days ago I received photos of the latest quilts we sent being given out. Its such a joy to be able to bless these children!

Quilts arrived in Zimbabwe

We actually heard several weeks ago that our latest quilts had arrived :)) . So it was worth sending airmail this time - they arrived when it was still really cold. I was hoping to receive some photos of the kids with their new quilts, so held off letting you all know, but that hasnt happened. I know the director is even more busy thatn usual, with organizational changes that are happening.
So thank you very much, those who contributed to postage or fabric!!

and here are the quilts we finished on thursday

A boy one from me, and a girl one using up lots of nine patches from Jackie

Photos of the donated fabric

I did something wrong there - no photos. Trying again . . .

Two great parcels in the post

Lately we have received two great parcels of fabric donated by friends. The first was from Helen, an online friend who is downsizing her house and her stash - she sent a heap of bright pretty things to be used for our girly quilts. So many, I am just itching to get into them!

Then very unexpectedly a big red parcel bag came from Joan. This one also contained some bright pretty fabrics, lots of them suitable for quilts for little boys. So both our target groups have some lovely new fabrics, and soon quilts on the way. Thank you so much to Helen and Joan, you will make some Zimbabwean children very happy!

Speeding Along!

This quilt was just finished today - I've been part of a block swap with an online group. Over the last 6 months, we send 2 centre squares out to two swappers, who use their own fabric choices to make the blocks. This one is called the Pennsylvania block. So I got 12 from this swapping process, and made three more myslelf. And today its finished !

Pink, White and Green

More donated blocks have had their quilt finished today - pink and white and green ones given to me by Jo. Thanks so much, Jo!

I love making things like this that are girly and pretty, its not my usual style, so its fun to do once in a while

A quilt from donated blocks

A few weeks ago I was given 12" blocks from a block swap, by Lorraine. It was a quick job to add sashing and a border, and today I quilted and bound it. There's a girl just waiting for this pretty quilt, I know! Thanks so much Lorraine!

A great use of scraps

I had some 4 1/2" cat squares left over from the 2 cat quilts I made, so I went delving in the scrap box for longer scraps, and came up with this irregular log cabin. The border is the only part thats not scraps - a very economical quilt!

surprise post!

I received a lovely surprise in the mail today - Lorraine from one of my swap groups sent me her set of Antique tile blocks ! They'll make a very pretty quilt - thanks so much Lorraine!