Star Trek Uniform and More Retreat Blocks!

Three more blocks arrived today from the USA :-) Beautiful floral fabric.

Thank you!

Now I'm off to continue sewing a Star Trek uniform for my 11 yo son who wants to look like Captain Archer on Enterprise. We found some blue velour in my stash and have chosen a jacket and leggings pattern from Ottobre. I've sewn two zipped patch pockets on the front and some yellow grosgrain ribbon over one shoulder and sleeve, I will have to get some more tomorrow for the other shoulder, I knew I should have bought extra! Here's a sneak preview :-)

We found a Space Shuttle badge and J used my machine's alphabet function to embroider "ENTERPRISE" on the badge, which is now sewn onto the left sleeve.

More Retreat Blocks!

More retreat blocks arrived in the mail today from two ladies in the USA! Such a lovely surprise :-) I think these will look great trimmed with some spring themed sashing.

Thank You !

Brilliant Mail Day!

Three packages arrived in the mail today!

My Ottobre Design magazine arrived from Finland, see my excited waiting with anticipation post here!

My first delivery of April Retreat blocks from the UK and the USA. Don't they look great together, I love the contrast :-)



and I'm lucky enough to have an early Rail Fence swap block in my requested colours of yellow orange and red. Such sweet fabrics :-)

Thank You

I won the block lottery!

I've been away for two days and came home to a lovely surprise. Wow, my name was drawn as the winner of the April Retreat lottery, with my QuiltingForAll Yahoo group. There are 53 framed four patch blocks on their way to me! Janice has shared photos of her completed blocks on her blog. The rest will be a surprise. Can't wait!

Thank you for organising the lottery Bev :-)

April Retreat Lottery

I'm participating in a weekend sewing retreat with QuiltingForAll. These are my completed lottery blocks as blogged here earlier, actually I only committed to 5 blocks (i.e. 5 entries in the block lottery) so I could increase my entry to 9 blocks and hopefully increase my chances of winning the block lottery, now that would be exciting!!! I was making ten blocks tonight but had a mishap with my cutting, shouldn't have been talking to DH ;-), so one fell by the wayside!

Looks like spring has sprung!

April Retreat

I'm getting ready for an April weekend retreat (17-19 April) with my QuiltingForAll yahoo group. We're sewing up Framed Four Patch blocks from the quilterscache site. The four patch section is to be white or white on white with any floral and the "frame" is to be light to medium green.

Just have to share the retreat organiser's reasons for choosing this fabric combination ... "I chose these colours because it's been a long winter here and I'm so starved for greenery and flowers." It'll be a pleasure to help out ;-).

Seeing as the four patch needs to be in 3" x 6" pieces I thought I'd buy a couple of 40 piece 7" charm packs. I bought a white on white pack and an Ivana's Garden pack and some lovely spring green fabric for the frame from my local patchwork shop, shown below.