A scarf for Cameron's teaching assistant and a beanie for Cameron's teacher. The beanie matches the scarf I made him for Christmas last year.
I know it is the middle of Summer here, so these gifts will look odd....but we have hardly had a Summer here yet...and it won't be long till Winter hits us again!
Not a great photo of the Disappearing Nine Patch....Phil is still in hospital.....operation went well, no complications, should be home on Friday!
A surprise quilt for Miss Pollock, organised by Mr Boddy and I. The boys somehow managed to keep it a secret!
She loved it! :)
A different medium for Berlin Bears.....polar bears featured on many blocks...the influence of Knut the Polar Bear in the Berlin Zoo.
Marga's quilt
I picked up a lot of business cards from different stalls to internet shop later on. There was also a lady there who owns a Gammil long arm, and I spoke to her at length about sending quilt tops to her to quilt for me (quilts that are too big and difficult to do on my domestic machine).
Phil went to New York for work.(He is currently in London, and then will head off to Moscow for the rest of the week). My stashbusting friends told me about the city quilter store in New York, which I made sure Phil did not leave without the address! http://www.cityquilter.com/ This is the fabric Phil bought for me. Some of it, I have no idea what to do with, but he is sure I will find a use for it at some stage.
Below are some of the blocks on another quilt I am working on. All the blocks sewn. I just need to piece it together, and think about borders, backing and binding.
We travel to the Adriatic Sea, Medveja, Croatia and I bring my knitting. 
"Where is the sand? All we can find are these rocks and we have thrown 200, 165 (Cameron's estimate) of them into the sea!
2 batik disappearing nine patches. I am hoping to get the borders and backing done this week, and with any luck pin the 3 layers together to quilt next week. (The pink one still needs the blocks to be sewn into a top...but that won't take long!)
These are for my mum, who is going through chemo treatment. The wool is very soft, and I hope they will keep her head warm...xxx I took these to Croatia, and knitted them beside the pool and on the beach!
Left Over wool from the felt bag I am making (and extra wool, I am going to make a knitting needle holder that I saw in an English Knitting Magazie, called Knit Today. I get to throw this in the washing machine as well, ans felt it up. It is about 200 sttiches wide, and I just have to keep knitting rows. It is a big project, because the wool will shrink more in length than width. But it is a good project, because I don't have to think too much about it when I am knitting
Some of the wool I bought from the Isle of Skye. This will be a shawl/scarf. Knitted on 15mm needles, 30 stitches wide, it knits up quickly, but the size 15 needles are bulky to use, but fun.
Today I sewed up the next part of a quilt, 140 pieces, and realised that my stitch length was still at "4", and not "2", which is what I normally use for quilting.
I hate it when I make a mistake....especially when I make the same mistake 70 times....grrr.....so I have been restitching them all!
Another UFO complete. This one I started last May/June....and put it away because it was so heavy to quilt. Finally last week I did a few rows at a time before my back began to ache. Then the binding took awhile to stitch on....This quilt is extra long (I just cut heaps of pieces, and kept sewing until they were all used. (Phil had to stand on a chair to hold it up)
This is a Tumbler Block quilt, made with a 22.5 ruler. (The same as Sonia's quilt). I pulled out all the purple strips in the stash, and divided them into lights and darks.
Here is a close up....an easy pattern to follow, because it is just one shape!
Even her 14 year old son is highly impressed!
Today I was brave, and this is how it turned out. Now it has to dry, and I can make a lining for it. I have some bamboo handles to finish it off, and a couple of magnetic clips to keep it shut. I think I will add a couple of pockets into the lining for my mobile etc. At the moment, it is a bit fluffy, so I will use a razor to shave off a bit of the excess!
I have started to grid the fabric for this one, I am not risking running out of fabric!
The top three are Lizzie Kate designs.
The next 2 designs are from Rainbow Gallery, and at the bottom is the Bent Creek design.
