SCOOTERS, CARS AND A TRACTOR.

Just what little boys like

Hearts for a little girl

I hand-appliqued these hearts and teddy bear, work for watching TV or DVDs.

Blues

A great way to use up scraps and easy to put together.

Speedway.

This is another panel, just right for a little rev-head. 

The solar system

Wow, it was windy that day.  Sometimes the day can have no wind, but as soon as I hang a quilt on the line a strong breeze comes up.

This is a panel with two borders.

Pink

I don't know which magazine this quilt came from but it was interesting to make.

Another boy''s quilt

OK so this is the other boy's quilt.  And I still have lots of wheel fabric!

A new sewing space

For over twenty years now we have been hosting international students.  I think we may wind down a little.
Two years ago I bought a new sewing machine and  the instructions say that I should keep it inside.  I have been sewing in the garage.   Now that one of the bedrooms will be free I am about to move my sewing things indoors.  There won't be space for everything so I will need to have a big sorting out day and only bring inside the things I need, such as the sewing table,  sewing machines (I have two) the picnic table for pressing and cutting and the design wall.  Not forgetting two big baskets of scrap fabrics and partly finished quilt tops.
We need to give the bed away (or sell it)   and move the desk outside.

Wheels

This is one of the quilts I made for a young boy, another one also has vehicles   I have lots of fabric left so I guess I will be making more of them.  Those few leaves in the foreground belong to the orange tree and there is a bouganvillea climbing up a trellis at the deck.

Part of my backyard

This is part of my backyard. The bird feeder has been removed.  We enjoyed having lorikeets visit us.  But sadly the mice found the "free food" and we had to take it down.  The two palm trees on the left are Washington cottons and the one on the right is a a Cocos Palm, which always seems to have dead fronds hanging about.. All the plants in that bed are now over 1 metre and grown into each other, there is also an umbrella tree, planted later.  Our flowering gum tree is behind the bird feeder.
There is a bottlebrush in the back corner with a fruit-salad plant  growing up through it.  We have five fruit-salad plants altogether.

Wild animals

This is a wild animal quilt that I made some time ago.  Children seem to like exotic animals.  I have more fabric for another one but styled differently. I made two of these, similar but a little different. I gave them to twin boys.

Round robin

My grandson a few years ago.  The quilt in the background is a Round-robin completed some years ago.  l make all the cushion  covers from blocks found in magazines or embroideries.  My dog is keeping an eye on things. The space ship in the background is one of my husband's Lego models.

Backing of Dino's quilt

This is the backing of Dino's quilt

Dino

This one was fun to make. It was in a magazine which I have lost or given away.

And I will try not to complain

Needs to be said often.

Tumbling blocks

I made this quilt nearly four years ago and sold it almost immediately.  I have put aside the appropriate fabrics so I can make it again with batiks on a  navy background but this time will rearrange the blocks.

Birds and trees

It has been a long time since I have posted any photos here.  The camera has not been co-operating with me, choosing to find photos in the hard drive and not those new ones in the camera.
A friend asked me to make a quilt with birds and trees, and this is what I came up with.

A Fat Quarter Star

I don't remember when I made this one, but it was in the past 3 years.  I found it in a British magazine.  So easy.

For Aria

A cute owl quilt for a little girl

My green wavy quilt

Another wavy quilt I made.  It was photographed in the late afternoon, the shadows are from everywhere.
Our bed of kangaroo paw is in the foreground.  We had a surprise last summer, the flowers grew to over 8 feet.

The little penguin

Ooops, my shadow is in the way.  This penguin is so cute, I had to make him into a quilt.

A different I-spy

This is a child's quilt I made about 7 years ago.  Looks like a stash buster although I would need to make more than one to make any impression on my stash.

Snap

This children's quilt has matching pictures under flaps, for the child to play with.

Ophelia.

This is a huge quilt I made 2 or 3 years ago.    If I can find the pattern again, I'd like to make a smaller version  I think the designer called it Ophelia