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Showing posts with label BOM. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BOM. Show all posts

Goose Bumps

This week I have been having a taster of what it is like to have 3 little girls under 3! Phew! By the end of the week I needed to lie in a dark quiet corner for a few minutes! I don't know how people do it with 3 kids so close together. It has certainly made me think if (and I mean IF) we try for a third child it has to be when Hanna is much older!



Anyway by the end of the week all I was fit for was sewing along the dotted line. The Block of the Month (BOM) from Twiddletails was a perfect fit. This months block is called Goose Bumps and is straightforward.



I am trying to use only scraps for this project. I have a box load of scraps in pink, red, orange and yellow. Perfect for a quilt for Amelie's room. I am using an old thrifted white sheet as well which I hope will be enough!



Some of the blocks I paper pieced and some I just pieced. I have to say that I had much better results paper piecing and I do like that method better. It is just that freezer paper is like gold dust here and I really don't want to use it unless I have to! Anyone know where to get your hands on it in Europe (or even better the UK or Germany?) Or would anyone like to do a swap?

Donate, Swap and Make

The bushfires in Australia are just horrific. So many people and animals have lost their lives. So much land has been devastated. So many have lost everything they have. And what I can't get my head around is that some of these fires were started deliberately.

If you would like to help there are a number of bloggers who have information on how.

  • Holly from Two Cheese Please has links so that even us lot overseas can donate.
  • Curlypops has lots of links to auctions going on to raise money.
  • QuiltDad has information about a Bushfire Quilt Project you might want to get involved in.
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On another note. Fancy another Fat Quarter Swap anyone? Darci from Stitches and Scissors is hosting one. So pop on over and sign up.

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Fancy having a go at some freezer paper piecing? Twiddletails is doing a Flying Geese Block of the Month. I particularly like this scrappy one.