Be My Neighbor!

I made this block for Debbie for the Gridster Bee for 

August.

The pattern came from a free QAL by Moda, called 

"Be My Neighbor"

This is the one I made for my own sampler!

using my small stash of kerchief girls fabric.

And a group shot!

And I labelled this one with their corresponding 

months.

I wonder what September will hold?

And there is still time to enter my 

blog-versary giveaway...

if you'd like to have this pincushion live at your 

house!

I'll draw a winner mid-week.

Happy sewing!

SUZ

Notting Hill Terrace....

I recently had the pleasure of testing a pattern 

for Nadra, over at Ellis and Higgs

I really enjoyed both the making 

and the quilting of this mini....

adding roof tiles and leadlight windows,

and texture to the door and window frames!

Head over and check all the other versions,

with their embroidered flowers, button door handles 

and even a visiting bunny!

Happy days!

SUZ

Hello October!

October in Melbourne is all about selling houses....

and sprucing up the garden!

Although I don't think this house is for sale?

Happy days!

SUZ

Lately....

I have made some bee blocks.

from the Modern Blocks book!

The first for Nicky, which arrived today!

And this happy house block for Miss Luella 

as part of the Mid-Century Modern Bee!

I decided to design my own house....

based on cottages here in Melbourne

which were popularly built in the 1800's...

Finally I have received some fabulous 

Rocky Mountain Puzzle blocks...

from (the bottom up) Leanne, Di, Rhonda and Emily 

as Queen of June 

in the Modern Stitching Bee!

Plenty to keep me busy....

Happy sewing!

SUZ

Really Random Thursday....

Some snippets from my week....

Reading in the Spring Melbourne sunshine...

A new lounge suite....

Castle Tiles is there on the left... final reveal still to come!

Pity I decided to gift my Castle Tiles quilt before I 

realised what a great match it was!

Maybe I have WAY too many quilts anyway!

The fire department was called out to a false 

alarm.....

MrPnP made THE most delicious

 Lemoncello Tiramisu....

and I started another bag for the 

Mouthy Stitches Swap!

All in all, a great week....

What sort of week are you having?

Linking up with....

SUZ

Little by Little...

I have made some inroads into my 'to-do' list!

I spent some time this weekend FMQ this quilt....

I didn't make this quilt top...

 I posted about it back here.

 I won it as part of a giveaway back in January..

And it is now almost complete!

Just the binding to do!

And I have also been working on my Embroider-bee block...

I'm feeling I may even be up-to-date soon!

Although I do think those French Knots on the right will need to be re-done!

Happy sewing!

SUZ

A Friendly Neighborhood!

A while back, on this post, I told you about a fun project that Beth from Love, Laugh, Quilt was 

organizing. 

She asked for all her friends in Blogland to send her 12" blocks of Houses.

She would then randomly select winners to receive some of them to make into a quilt top.

However one generous lady, Em, from  www.wonkyquilter.com sent a WHOLE quilt top!

This is it-

And now it lives at MY house!

I was lucky enough to be the winner of this really lovely quilt!

Em used some really cute fabric!

The yellow in the one above is "Little Golden Books", which I have never seen before.

And this one with cup cakes is yummy!

This, I think, is from Eric Carle's "Hungry Caterpillar" picture story book!

And this one houses a family of cats!

And finally chickens in the henhouse!

It is really very pretty and my photos don't do it justice!

I am intending to hand quilt it in a naive manner over the winter months and offer it to a local charity, for 

a raffle or fundraiser of some kind.

I will show you again when it is finished!

Happy sewing

SUZ