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Bonus Post: What’s in the Box?

box from Island BAtik

Yesterday I let slip that my latest box of goodies has arrived from Island Batik, without showing you anything fun…..

I hope that wasn’t too unkind. At least you only had to wait a day to see inside. I had to wait nearly a week after I knew it had arrived! Oh, the excruciating anticipation of having a box languishing at the post office! A box of quilting supplies, no less. Full of surprises and free stuff! Worse than waiting for Christmas. But I’m feeling better now though, thank you for your concern.  🙂

Let’s have a look inside now shall we?

Open box from Island Batik

Oh, you mean unpack it? Ok, let’s do that too!

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I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas

three leaf clover quilt block

Yesterday morning it was -5°C outside at breakfast time (23F for you non-metric folks)! Last time I was somewhere that cold, it was Christmas…..

Just to prove how cold it was last night, here is a little tray of water my kids placed out on the verandah last night. Frozen!

frozen water

With the cold weather, and with several Christmas in July blog hops happening around the internet at the moment and very soon, it is hard not to be thinking about Christmas. And more specifically, the Northern Hemisphere Christmas I had two years ago in Germany and Denmark. While a stinking hot Australian Christmas has plenty of unique and wonderful qualities, there are a lot of Christmas traditions that us silly Aussies cling to that make so much more sense in the cold.

So. I am in the mood to quilt something in cool colours to celebrate cold Christmases, in an early preparation for a hot Christmas…. but I can’t tell you exactly what I am making. Not just yet, because the big reveal is on July 24. That is my day on Carol’s Christmas in July hop at Just Let Me Quilt. I can show you some progress though. It might be a secret, but it’s not that big a secret. 🙂

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A Two-Faced Pumpkin Quilt Facing Tutorial (and Modern Winding Ways finished)

Modern Winding Ways quilting detail

Island Batik ambassador button

Modern Winding Ways is finished. 

Quilted, faced (invisibly bound) and hung. 🙂 And de-fluffed with several passes of a sticky clothes-lint roller. Crikey, does black fabric show batting lint or what!!?! So, that is it – my June Island Batik Ambassador challenge crossed off the list. Happy days. 

If you’d like to follow the whole design and construction journey for Modern Winding Ways, you can find out more about the design stage here and the flimsy stage here. Today we are just going to have a little look at how I finished it. Including a quick tutorial on how to face a quilt, with a bonus little side project. 

Two-faced Pumpkin quilt pad/table protector

Ummmmm….  I said “face a quilt”….. not “put a face on a quilt”.

A two-faced quilt?….. sinister…… Or should that be a pumpkin with a face on his back side?…… ? *snigger* 

Don’t mind me. Long week, small children. Just roll your eyes and join me for the Two-faced Pumpkin facing tutorial. An easy facing method to make you smile. And if you’d like to make a Two-faced Pumpkin table protector like mine as a practice piece, then be my guest. Everything you need to know is here. The fabrics for both projects featured in this post were given to me by Island Batik.

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Victoria and Albert: Colour Inspiration Tuesday and Linky Party

Victoria and Albert color scheme by Clever Chameleon

This week’s colour scheme is one you can expect to see on quilts on Clever Chameleon a fair bit over the next two months. So I hope you like it! It is the colours of “Victoria and Albert”.

Back in  February, Island Batik sent me a package of fabric that I had to keep as a secret from you. It was a big secret too…. with 30 fabrics in the Victoria and Albert collection, it made for a biii-iiig parcel! This collection has officially launched now and you can find it on Island Batik’s page if you wish. Here is the pile of fabric I was given to play with!

Victoria and Albert collection

Today, let me show you some of my favourite fabric designs from this collection and then my finished Modern Winding Ways quilt.  And then join me for this week’s linky party…. let’s see what quilting colours everyone’s working on lately.

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