No, not me! I haven't had time but my friend Katie has. She Won! Go check out the latest blocks she created at her blog, Chuord's Crafts. While you're there, have a look at the amazing Threadwork piece she has created out of Mettler Threads. Go on, go now. I'll wait. :)
Showing posts with label APandQ Competition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label APandQ Competition. Show all posts
Friday, September 2, 2011
Saturday, July 9, 2011
AP&Q Competition Winners
I had a nice surprise the other day. Remember the competition that Katie, from Chuord's Crafts encouraged me to enter? Well, in the morning I had a call from Katie to say that she was one of the winners! Well done her, it was very well deserved. I loved the blocks she entered and her winning block was fantastic. Check them out here. Then, when I checked my email later that day I found that I'd won too!
So yesterday a nice package arrived in the mail.
Thanks very much to Katie, AP&Q magazine and Leutenegger Fabrics. Now I've got something half planned for these fabrics but you'll just have to wait to find out what!
So yesterday a nice package arrived in the mail.
And in case you're curious the block that won was the baby Dresden.
Saturday, July 2, 2011
AP&Q Competition
So last month's AP&Q magazine(Australian Patchwork & Quilting Magazine) had a competition to win some Leutenegger Fabric. My friend Katie of Chuords Crafts firmly, gently, suggested that we enter.
To enter we needed to make 6.5" square blocks in bright purple, pink and green. There would be 8 winners chosen and the blocks were to be made into quilts for charity. The deal was we would each submit a couple of blocks and if either of us won anything we would split the prize. If not we would have the fun and challenge of making something new and the results would go to a good cause.
I ended up making four blocks and I would just like to point out that in no way are these my favourite colours! Also sorry for the very ordinary photo, but it was late, and I just wanted to package them up ready for mailing and go to bed.
Anyway, the top left one I was really happy with, a good chance to do a test dresden for a quilt I'll be working on later(Shhh... Secret Squirrel). The top right was great in theory but someone may have worked out the math fairly late at night and the resulting pieces were all 1/4" too big. So I lost the other green and purple that was in the zig zag when I cut it to size. I was going to add some pink hand stitching in perle cotton but none of the pinks I had seemed to work. The bottom two blocks are just leftover strips pieced together that I thought could be fillers in the charity quilts.
Wish us luck!
To enter we needed to make 6.5" square blocks in bright purple, pink and green. There would be 8 winners chosen and the blocks were to be made into quilts for charity. The deal was we would each submit a couple of blocks and if either of us won anything we would split the prize. If not we would have the fun and challenge of making something new and the results would go to a good cause.
I ended up making four blocks and I would just like to point out that in no way are these my favourite colours! Also sorry for the very ordinary photo, but it was late, and I just wanted to package them up ready for mailing and go to bed.
Anyway, the top left one I was really happy with, a good chance to do a test dresden for a quilt I'll be working on later(Shhh... Secret Squirrel). The top right was great in theory but someone may have worked out the math fairly late at night and the resulting pieces were all 1/4" too big. So I lost the other green and purple that was in the zig zag when I cut it to size. I was going to add some pink hand stitching in perle cotton but none of the pinks I had seemed to work. The bottom two blocks are just leftover strips pieced together that I thought could be fillers in the charity quilts.
Wish us luck!
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