a little bit of this, a little more of that and a crinkle or two!

A little bit of this ... a finish.

Finally I got this little runner I made before Christmas bound and done! I really like it, I have a friend who has her birthday soon, it may be heading her way :)

A little more...

... time spent on my 'Camp Sloanie Keeping the Camp Fires Burning' quilt means I actually got the borders on it today. Wooohoooo! Another top to add to the pile of those awaiting quilting. I have a few ideas on quilting this one already! It may have to do a little queue jumping ... hehe!

I started my Expedition Quilt Art challenge for February. Using some of my snow dyed fabric, I had a good read of Nellies Needles blog, and set my fabric to dry in the airing cupboard! Today was the day it was released from the confines of the cup revealing a crinkle or two!

I eased the fabric out, and layered it onto the backing and some beautiful wool wadding. This is going to be hand quilted, and I just love hand quilting on wool wadding. I found myself some big needles, though I'm not sure about them just yet. They'll take some getting used to. I am so used to using tiny needles to get tiny stitches on hand quilting.

But I do have some beautiful threads to use on this project. I'm having fun with them already :)

Happy quilting!

Camp Slaonie Winter Stashbusting

As the US is gripped in the throws of a massive snow storm, Pat Sloan couldn't have chosen a better weekend for her Camp Sloanie Winter Stashbuster event.

How does it work? Take a pile of pre-cut strips, add a little yardage, and a sprinkle of magic twinkle from the Sloan Ranch....

.. and you get yourself some blocks...

repeat, and make as many or as few as you want, and this is what I came up with so far!

I've got a few more rows to sew together, but it's late and I'm tired (seems to be a re-occurring theme lately)!

More on this one tomorrow. Get yourself over to Pat's blog and have a look at some very talented people who are joining in. There's a flickr group too!

Happy Quilting!