An Update - and a resolution

Well It's been a while since I last posted on here.
Since then I've finished my sister's quilt

Finished my Queen's Guide award

Bought a kindle and made a funky cover for it

 ... and made my gran a scrappy quilt for Christmas this year which used leftovers from my 1st quilt!

I've just saved enough money up to buy a new sewing machine so hopefully I can have a go at free motion quilting or at least now it has duel feed and posher stitches than the last one at least make some funky quilts!

Plan for the year...
Make the quilt I promised my friend. She wants it starry and colourful
Finish the friendship braid quilt I started last year
Make a Dresden plate quilt of some sort
Make a sampler quilt using funky fabric (yes, I'm a newbie who didn't start with the traditional making a sampler quilt thing lol)
and finally make the sparking gems quilt from the jelly roll book because it just looks fab.

I think I'll be a busy bee this year if I get all that done and manage to fit in going to work and running a Guide and Ranger unit too!

At a standstill (and not just becasue of the weather!)

I've managed to get the centre block of my sister's xmas quilt made but have now come to a standstill. I don't have enough fabric to make the border and until I get paid from my new job can't afford to buy any (the curse of car mot and insurance both due in December!). I think it looks rather good so far though. Here's a pic I took before I finished sewing it all together.

It's a pity it's so wintery outside now - it was very sutumnal when I started this quilt. Sis likes it though so far :)

I did have a bit of luck too when I won from fabric from sew me happy in a givaway. It's a lovely collection of xmas fabric and because I can't do any more work with my sis's quilt it means I can make something with that instead :)

I'll have to keep the blue one seperate I think as I love it so much and it's a different colour that I think I'll do a mostly blue and white 'snow' quilt for that one.

Any ideas for patterns for a christmas quilt anyone?

Got a square made...

I'm getting on with my sister's quilt now. I think I mentioned earlier it was a maple leaf design - I'm sure not the fanciest of all quilts but for my 2nd one it's rather a large step up from a simple square blocks one.

I've managed to get all the material cut and now am starting to put the blocks together. This is one I've finished.

 

Just got another 4 of these to get done then I can start on the maple leaf squares. Should be fun. Hopefully I'll have these ones done by the end of the weekend but it's a busy weekend. Need to go clothes shopping for my sister's graduation on Saturday and then on Sunday morning I am taking part in a rememberance sunday parade wit hmy Guides and then on Sunday evening I'm going to see the comedian Ross Noble with my friends! What a busy week... must try and get this quilt finished before xmas.

Other exciting new too is that I won a very nice bundle of xmas fabric in a competition this week. Now just need to work out what to do with it. yay!