Gifties for Good Friends

I was lucky enough to be able to combine our trip

to Wimbledon with a visit to my quilty friend Kate.

I made her a little something with African fabrics
because for months (years?) we swapped African blocks

and I sort it sort of made sense :)

I also made her panda-loving son
a pencil case and coin purse to thank him

for giving up his room for us...

I haven't downloaded my tennis photos yet,

but will do that after I've taken some photos

of my latest finishes.

Slow & Steady wins the race

I am slowly getting all the blocks done for my Marti Mitchell Carolina Lily.

6 blocks are completely finished and 2 just need the stems and leaves sewn down. All the setting flower blocks are almost sewn together, the last 5 just need the white sewn down and their stems attached. Did I mention I found enough white to finish the last 5 small flowers! I was so happy to be so disorganised for once LOL.

Kandy has been helping me work out the fabric requirements and potential layouts in EQ6 (see this post - it's very cool!)

I was so pleased of her help as I changed the block sizes suggested in Marti's pattern.
(Because I have been sewing the blocks by hand I thought it would be more suitable to not make them as big as she suggests for the king size quilt and not as small as she suggests for the wallhanging...)

Here is one of the suggested layouts that I am pretty much going to go with...


I am scared and excited to tackle those vines, but first I have to sew all the blocks together (after I have finished them of course!)


On a commercial note ;-) I've made some more coin purses, but have not had a chance to photograph them properly so that I can list them in my Etsy shop...

Blue ones...

(Blue one on the bottom row in the middle is already sold)
(EDIT: Top left & Bottom right blue purses sold now too)

And some in yellow and orange...



I hope to list them sometime this week...