Aussie Hero Quilt Continued.

I have printed off a colour chart for me to work from. Waiting for block to dry before adding more sewing lines. The lines are chalked on as guide lines.

Aussie Hero Quilt Started.

This is going to be fun. Aztec Mandela. Urban bright colours. free motion quilting on a black background. I will be stitching over the painted areas too.

Aussie Hero Quilt And Laundry Bag.

 Laundry bag.

Quilt.

Aussie Hero Quilt Continued.

Three more red blocks then ready to assemble.

Birthday Cake And Shopping.

 This is the cake my niece has made me for my birthday, a bunch of purple flower cupcakes presented in a bouquet. How lovely.

 I went to Spotlight today and bought these lovely fabrics to compliment what I am using for the scrappy blocks I am making. The large fabrics are $5 per metre and the fat 1/4s are 5 for $10.

Close up of the scrappy blocks being made.

Quilt Restarted And Birthday Flowers.

 This is how I was going to do the quilt originally, but last night I had a re think. I love the colours but not the straight lines.

 All the colours have been put into a bag.

I am now cutting them up smaller and placing them in random scraps like the litter of the earth.

Today is my birthday and my lovely sister from England has sent me some flowers.

How lovely is this! My favourite colours, How blessed am I. Thanks Sis!

Aussie Hero Quilt Started.

This one has several requests in it and one of them is autumn colours. Most of the blocks will be scrappy, using this middle fabric as the starting point. Most of the fabrics used will be donated fabrics so see if you can spot what you gave me.

This is one of the costumes I was helping my son with last week. I made his cape for this one.

The Pink Project.

Number 14 finished.

The Pink Project.

Made a start on number 14. I will couch the shapes in with the colours I have painted then with.
I gave one to a door knocker yesterday to give to his friend who is currently in treatment. He was door knocking for a different cause, unable to help him in his one, my life is pretty full and cannot add another to my plate. 

Aussie Hero Laundry Bag.

Time poor this week, so I just chose a laundry bag for this week. Maroon, white, Rugby League, State of Origin QLD was this request. Not having a lot of white fabric, I like to keep it for the T shirt transfers, I found some white bias tape (Savers), and hemming tape (Savers again), made my own stripes on the fabric and stitched it down using a wide zig zag.

Quilt Finished.

Quilt finished.

Aussie Hero Quilt Continued.

So much colour on the front I am putting a plain back and white on the back.

Aussie Hero Quilt Continued.

3 more blocks left to do. The middle one is an iron on Easy on transfer and the top one is going to be applique and the bottom one is free motion quilting.

Aussie Hero Quilt Continued.

These are the blocks so far.

Aussie Hero Quilt Continued.

I have used Heat n Bond to keep the grey in place as it is the jumper and I did not want to have sewing lines on it.All the rest is stitch in the ditch.

More Blocks Painted.

The paited blocks are done. They will have a simple grid quilting around them. The next blocks will be applique.

Aussie Hero Quilt Continued.

Work in progress.

Birthday Cake And Next Quilt Started.

 Yesterday it was my husbands Birthday and my beautiful niece mad him this very delicious cake. The sponge is the lightest texture, multiple layers, Just wonderful.

This quilt is going to be a fun one to do. Harry Potter, vibrant colours and puzzles is this request. I found some colouring pages and will be working from that. First block well underway.

Aussie Hero Quilt Finished.

Aussie Hero quilt finished.

Aussie Hero Quilts Continued.

Subtle.

Aussie Hero Quilt Continued.

This is for the solid quilt blocks. I have enlarged the central piece of the badge and simplified it, labelled it and traced it onto template plastic. Cut it out and now using the erasable pen I will transfer it onto the fabric for sewing.

Aussie Hero Quilt Continued.

Using the same fabric pieces for the star block configured differently makes for added interst with no extra effort.

Next Aussie Hero Quilt Started.

This one is TAJI symbol and green. I am doing 14 inch blocks using the Aussie Hero Star block. with the patch in the middle of every other block. 7 of them. the beige/brown is the neutral to break the colours up. Black will be the joining strips and the binding.

Aussie Hero Quilt Finished.

Aussie Hero request quilt finished.