We have a winner!

First of all thank you to the 73 people who left a comment on my blog - amazing and thanks for all the kind words.

There can only be one winner and that's Michelle who doesn't have a blog.

Please email me your address Michelle so I can send you your prize.

Don't forget you can buy the pattern (along with lots of others) in my etsy store and the foundation papers will be listed there soon - I've run out of the first lot already and can't get any more til after xmas!

Thanks again everyone and I hope you keep visiting.

More various

I teach at The Home Patch in Bathurst on a monthly basis and Anni and the staff are such lovely girls. (Pete too).
I saw recently that Anni's blog has been rated among the best 5 quilting blogs  and not only does she have a new book out but she also has a new fabric range (scroll down in the post to see it).
The Home Patch was one of the traders at our recent Springwood Community Quilt Show and Anni has been a regular at the show since it's inception.

Anni and Pete have just come back from Salt Lake City Quilt Market and it's pleasure to see a couple who work so hard and who are such a lovely people do so well. Congratulations to you both.

Only four more sleeps til our quilt camp this weekend! I can hardly wait to have some solid sewing time and the chance to chill out with good friends.The nights will be chilly indeed at our venue out in the wilds of Mulgoa but a few hot toddies will help to ward off the cold!

Be sure to have a look at my friend Rachel's blog over at Blue Mountain Daisy - she's joined the Sew mama sew giveaway day and has some great prizes on offer. Rachel's one of our happy campers too.

Now for some pics

Lots of dots happening here!

The start of Elizabeth's Pickled Lillies

Emperors wheel finished

More dots from Berrima

Dianne has been busy finishing - redwork Noodle box



Dianne's Mariners centre



Are you signed up to the International Quilt Study Centre quilt-of-the-month emails? You should be. Every month you'll be sent a link to a quilt from their collection at the University of Nebraska.

Check out this month's quilt - hexagons to die for! There is an exhibition on that I'd kill to see - here's a blurb about it:

"May 28 will mark the opening of the next major international quilt exhibition in the IQSCM galleries. Elegant Geometry: American and British Mosaic Patchwork will feature beautiful mosaic patchwork, technical marvels from "both sides of the pond." It is curated by Bridget Long, quilt historian from the United Kingdom, who studied the pieces during her IQSCM Fellowship in 2009 and initiated the research that informs this exhibition. She contributed the primary essay for the accompanying catalog of the same title."

Let's hope the catalogue becomes available outside the exhibition.

We have a result!

No it's not The Bill (alas may it RIP). The random number generator chose comment number 7 from the list posted by Helenclare. Please send me your address so I can post the cushion cover. Hope it suits your decor.
And thanks to all who left a comment. More tomorrow with some pics.

It's contagious

Rachael is having a give-away so I thought I might do the same to celebrate the fact I have had 10,000 visitors to my blog! I find that amazing when there is so much to look at on the web. Thanks everyone who has visited.
The prize is the cushion cover featured as a project for Australian Country Craft and Decorating earlier this year.

It's made from the first French General range and is 20" square. It has a fold-over back using a beautiful linen toile from the range.

Just leave me a comment and you'll go in the draw  for Sunday afternoon.

Overseas entries are welcomed.