Sweet Teresa

I feel so blessed to have such lovely bloggy friends. 

Teresa from Portugal is doing it tough with the European economic market but she still managed to send me not two but three blocks this month AND,  lovely little purse that I am going to use to keep some threads in for a stitching project. 

A heartfelt thank you Teresa xx

April swaps

 Aren't I lucky.... for April Dawnelle sent me two beautiful blocks, actually she sent me two of each block so I got four. Thanks Dawnelle you did a really good job with these blocks and I loved the postcards too.

 The two bottom blocks are the ones I sent to Dawnelle and the top two are ones I sent to Margaret as I had a double swap this month. I hope that they have all arrived at their destinations. Thanks for being my partners .

March and April swaps

Margaret is my March partner and she asked for eight pointed stars in  cornflour blue with cream background . These are the blocks I made for her.

My April partner is our lovely his Sue B. I had the pleasure to be her partner other times. Here are her blocks

Log cabins for Teresa

I hope these are the right sized strips, as there were conflicting patterns for a 6 inch log cabin.

Teresa requested them in reproduction or civil war fabrics with a red centre.  I made the centre block and strips all 1.5 inches wide.

My First 6" Exchange .........

My partner for March was Jen in USA, who asked for postage stamps blocks - these are the blocks I sent -

and these are the square in a square in a square blocks that I received in return -

Beautiful fabrics in such pretty colours. Thank you so much Jen. They are a wonderful start to my collection.

My partner for April is Lorraine, in New Zealand. I am looking forward to stitching more 6 inch blocks.



First Blocks

This is my first month joining up and I got to send to Robyn. She wanted any scrappy block with a touch of blue.

A block swap quilt

Thank you to all of the ladies that contributed to this lovely quilt that I am giving to my grand son Jack.  This was made over almost 2 years ( started in May 2011) with blocks received in the 6 inch swap.  I am so pleased with the finished result.

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