More autumn colours

The weather here has been so incredibly sunny and mild for the season that I can't resist posting another autumn photo.
Last summer, I enjoyed reading Tammy's blog, especially her posts about ICaD, and I played along a little bit, in my own corner. I didn't feel like showing my index cards here and didn't post about them, but the other day, I found Tammy's blog again, with this post here, and I just couldn't resist making a little mess too...
This print is my favourite...
especially this close-up...
and this is what happened to the sheet of paper that what protecting my desk...
The watercolour marks under the paint splotches come from sketches I did for a new quilt. Here's a little peek at one of the sketches...
The quilt is well underway, but I can't post about it yet.

Bright autumn colours

Today, I decided to add some orange yellow to my blue, pink and purple scraps. Then I spent some quality time with my good old sewing machine. It just came back from a check-up and it behaved really well. I wonder why I had been thinking of upgrading.
It looks like all these little scraps will soon become a baby quilt.
I also did choose my fabrics for another project...

Some art news

At last, I found some artistic content again for my blog... :-)Little GD recently discovered the joy of playdough and she really likes it. She also made her grand debut at finger painting. This was a bit more chaotic and I was so busy trying to contain the mess that I didn't manage to take decent pictures. It will be for next week maybe.
In the meantime, I made it back to the studio. My rosebud quilt is almost finished.
Then I decided I had to do something about this...
I started piecing scraps together. Blue, pink and purple at the moment.
I've got a vague idea about what I want to do. We'll see what happens in the next days.
In other news, Gerrie, my fellow Twelve, will be on a radio show tomorrow afternoon, eastern time. See here.

New Design for Christmas

I will be teaching this at Currie High School next term.  I bought some new Christmas fabrics yesterday, I couldn't resist them, and hope to get started next week.  I don't usually make Christmas quilts but I thought I would make one so I have one to decorate my home when the Xmas tree etc goes up.

I also want to make a tree skirt this year if I have the time.  If you would like to make this quilt I have made the files available for download.  You will find them on the left hand side of the blog under Xmas Quilt.   

It was designed in EQ7 and the files are PDFs.    Let me know if you make it and I would love to see a picture if you do make the quilt.

And the Winner Is....

The winner of the book giveaway is Rlbates.   Please email me your snail mail address and I will get the book in the post to you.

I'm back...

really...
no more travelling. I promise!...
Yesterday, I even spent 4 hours in the studio working on my pink quilt. Pictures soon.