Thank you for all of your sweet comments on the last post, I've did exactly nothing last week and let my to do list get dusty whilst I lazily la dee daahed on my sofa. That and a couple of others things have completely perked me up for the coming week.
Other things being - Attending the London Modern Quilt Guild meeting yesterday, eating homemade biscuits and seeing not one but two versions of my Bloom quilt. Charlotte's is above and was just jaw droppingingly lovely made all up from various Denyse Schmidt prints and appliqued onto a very pale blue background. She decided to go the extra half mile and made a fifth ring of dresden petals (my version had just four) and made it a whopping 100" square. She also hand quilted the entire thing.
Kelly also has a Bloom in progress and is well on her way to getting those rings appliqued down.
Aren't these colours just wonderful together?
To top off my weekend, I got my copy of the special Christmas in July issue of Australian Homespun magazine. I have an interview in this issue and was delighted to be described as an artisan on the cover! There is also a seasonal embroidery pattern from me inside this copy, you can see it there in the bottom right hand corner. Not just that but there is also a chance to win one of five copies of my book and an embroidered quilt journal. Not bad!
Let's just hope the rest of the week continues in the same way :)
What pretty dresdens! Glad you are feeling better!
Posted by: Jamie Lee | 07/09/2012 at 12:43 PM
it was so lovely to see you! Love the pic of my groin-tag - Michael will be pleased ;-)
Posted by: Charlotte | 07/09/2012 at 01:29 PM
Yay! Glad to hear you're feeling more like yourself! LOVE the blooms! I need to get moving on mine! :)
Posted by: Jeni | 07/09/2012 at 01:56 PM
Beautiful dresdens, I have yet to try and make one...Kxx
Posted by: karen | 07/09/2012 at 02:03 PM
Glad to hear that you're feeling better and that some really special things have perked you up! The Blooms are wonderful ~ and how exciting to be featured in a magazine!
Posted by: elsa | 07/09/2012 at 02:16 PM
Such beautiful Blooms! Glad to hear your mojo is coming back! We all need to recharge the batteries every once in a while. xx
Posted by: mary | 07/09/2012 at 02:30 PM
Excellent - Charlotte and Kelly are a credit to you!
Just looked at the Aussie site - so funny, they have a competition for 'under-35 year old quilters'! Why?!
Nice to have you back x
Posted by: Flying Blind | 07/09/2012 at 02:47 PM
I love love love this woman!!! Tell your quilt guild then are awesome!
Posted by: sukie | 07/09/2012 at 03:43 PM
The Blooms are wonderful! Hope to get a copy of the magazine, too! Hildy
Posted by: Hildy | 07/09/2012 at 05:43 PM
I love seeing these variations of Bloom, great colours and I like seeing the differences in each one!
Posted by: Kerry | 07/09/2012 at 07:29 PM
Great to hear your back and ready to get creative again. Congrats on the article also, wish I could get it here in the states.
Love your work!
Posted by: Kathleen O'Grady | 07/09/2012 at 07:31 PM
The Blooms are blooming beautiful. I too got the magazine. I was looking for chill out time and went to the newsagent after grocery shopping and thought 'I will get a magazine', I did without even looking at the front cover. What a lovely surprise I got when I finally got to sit with a coffee and an anzac bikkie, there you were. Did the happy squeal. The best project in the book.
Posted by: Julie | 07/09/2012 at 09:20 PM
Ahh look at little ole me on a exceptionally famous fabric designers blog page ;-)xx
Posted by: Kelly | 07/10/2012 at 08:53 AM
I love all the versions of Bloom!
Posted by: Archie the wonder dog | 07/12/2012 at 08:24 PM
Bloomin' luverly!
Posted by: Nicky | 07/13/2012 at 01:20 AM
I love this magazine! And, the Blooms. I absolutely love the color inspiration. What a lovely quilt. I will have to break out some fabric. I think I can quilt this in my head, maybe some sketching is in order!
Posted by: Auntie Pami | 07/14/2012 at 05:48 PM