Sylvias star arrived

As expected a lot of mail was piled up when we arrived home from Phuket. Most;y bills but I did have two items that put a smile on my face. 

First was this lovely star block from Sylvia in Calgary Canada, my June swap partner

Sylvia included a lovely hand made card and a piece of blue and white spot fabric for my stash.
My second goodie was this months edition of Homespun magazine.

To see some pics of my holiday in Thailand and some of the goodies I purchased hop onto my blog:
http://quiltedhugsandothernonsense.blogspot.com/

Its always nice to go on holidays but its even better to get home to your loved ones.

Sylvia's Star

Sylvia sent me an email to not participate in the swaps for a couple of months as she was busy, and I was disappointed as I had ear marked myself to be her partner for June.  As it turns out I am going to be overseas for the first 2 weeks of June so we decided to be June partners in May instead.

As you may know if you follow my personal blog I have been practising with foundation piecing and although a I still find it confusing and a challenge I am pleased with how this star turned out for Sylvia, who requested any block in purple pink green and white.   I think I have covered all of those colours as the green butterfly print has some pink in it too.  I was a little disappointed as the finished block ended up 1 inch smaller than we make them, so I put a frame around it in the white.  So to the paper piecer's out there is this common that a pattern may end up smaller?

I will pop this in the post this week, I hope Sylvia likes it.