Quilting block swaps Australia: storm at sea

How to JOIN quilting block swaps Australia

Hello and thank you for visiting. This is a community group for all Australian quilters to join or just follow. Membership is FREE and you are partnered each month and we make each other a 12 inch quilt block based on our preferences which we swap. (12.5 inches raw edge to raw edge) The emphasis of the group is on friendship and sharing. To find out more or register to join email me on quiltingblocks@hotmail.com This purpose of this blog is to chat and showcase blocks and quilts made by members, kind of like a show and tell . Yours in stitching, Sue

Monday, March 12, 2012

Stormy Seas

Brenda from Ohio is my partner for March and I was challenged with her request for Storm at Sea, a paper pieced block. I am quite the novice at paper piecing, and my first attempt (right block) came out undersized. So today I tried again, size is fine, but some of the seams are a bit narrow. Brenda's colour choice is in blue, green and brown, quite an ocean scape. Both blocks will be in the post tomorrow.

Now I can get cracking on my Christmas block

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Two blocks

I have had a productive day in the sewing room today and have made my two partners a block each

Partner #1 is Beatrice from France who requested either Army star in country colours or Strings in neutral colours. I have noticed that most people have made Bea the strings so I thought I would do the army star for her. We are also exchanging patterns, so I hope Bea likes what I send her.

My second partner is Brenda in Ohio who has had a run of bad luck with swap partners so I wanted to make sure she got her swap ok this month. Brenda request was a paper pieced block Storm and sea in browns, blues and green. I am still learning paper piecing and this came out 1/2 inch undersized so I will have another try in a day or so, but still proud of my effort all the same.