Ooops it’s been two weeks…

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Sorry, I didn’t mean to disappear for a fortnight but that flu did knock me I’m afraid.

Thank you for your well wishes, and yes my DH looked after me well…he cooked all the meals and kept the fire roaring.

I didn’t manage any hand-sewing over the last two weeks, but I did sit down and put in the time to finally finishing the pattern for the

Banyan Tree Medallion Quilt

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It’s amazing (not in a good way, maybe astounding would be a better word) how long something can be at a virtually completed state, but then just sit in limbo waiting for me to give it a final ‘tweak’.

But I am glad to say that the Banyan Tree Medallion pattern is complete, and being printed as we speak.

It will soon be added to the Quilt Patterns for on-line purchase and also hopefully at your local quiltshop.

Now that it’s nearing Maltaville mailout time again, I wish I had felt like sewing the last two weeks but I did nothing on that.

So last night I hastily got the centre out and started selecting and cutting some more pieces because it was looking a bit unloved.

image of centre block progress

It’s looking a little better now isn’t it, I will get some more happening with it tonight.

Today I have been tracing the copies to go out to you this week…

Yes  :-) those of you who are up to mailout number five will be getting the Centre Block.

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It’s great to see some blocks over on the Maltaville blog,

it’s making me keep at it that’s for sure as I can see that there are a couple of you keeping right up to date with the mailouts.

Here’s a block I finished a little while ago that I don’t think I’ve shown yet.

This one was really fun to do.

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I am off to Sydney this weekend for the Sydney Quilt Show, I’m going with Jennifer and we are both looking forward to it.

I’m also meeting up with Petra who is bringing ‘home’ my Mid 19th Century Star quilt.

It will be super to meet her in person at long last.

Jenn and I want to get to the Quiltsmith and Material Obsession shops as well as the quilt show of course so we have a busy weekend planned.

It’d be great to meet up with any of you who are going to be at the quilt show on the Saturday, let me know if you’re going to be there and we’ll work something out.

Til soon…

Can’t talk but I can still write…

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A week ago at Bookclub, all the other members were talking about their (losing) battles with the latest winter flu.

“have you had it?” one of my bookie friends asked.

“No I never get sick, about 8 years ago I had what my Doctor called ‘the once in 10 year flu’ so I’ll be right for another couple of years”

Ha.

Since the weekend I have felt ghastly.

On doing my sums it’s actually 11 years since I had the once in 10 year flu.

(I’ll be seeing my Doctor later today and squeaking to her that I got a one year bonus)

My voice has all but gone.

Anyway, that means it wasn’t until this morning that I gathered the energy to pop all your names in a box for the draw of Smithsonian fabrics.

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Looks pretty good odds to me…

I got DH to draw out two names as I don’t want anyone visiting while I’m all contagious and revolting,

and he picked out Lynne and Mary-Jo in that order.

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So Lynne, you get these ones

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and Mary Jo you get these ones

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Congratulations to you both.

Email me your snail mail addresses and I’ll get them in the post to you :-)

I’ve got quilting work to do today, it’s one of mine on the machine and not terribly difficult (not a lot of brain power needed for that one)

but I will leave you with a photo of the Maltaville centre, still under construction.

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Surprisingly that one bunch of grapes was only one evening’s work, from making the 21 individual grapes to sewing them down.

til soon…