Happy first day of the New Year!!! Did you manage to stay up til midnight? We got to sleep around 1:30am so I'm dragging the chain a little today!
We have constantly had friends staying with us, or been visiting friends so from the start I apologise for not visiting all my blogland friends (you!) lately. I really miss chatting with everyone, and hope to get back to it soon. Anyway, I'm finally able to show you the beautiful table runner that Nicolette from
Dutch Comfort made for me for our
SSCS gift.
Isn't it gorgeous? I love the bright colours she has used (she discovered on my blog my love of bright fabrics), and the gorgeous snowflakes she has appliqued onto the table runner.
On the back Nicolette has used a gorgeous linen that really highlights her quilting of stars and snowflakes. It's finished off beautifully with a multicoloured binding, made up of the fabrics used in the quilt top. Great idea.
Thank you so much Nicolette, I appreciate the time and effort and love you have put into this gift for me.
In receiving a gift in
Chookyblue's SSCS, you also have to make a gift for someone else. I made this lap quilt for Nancy from Patchwork Penguin blog. It is such a wonderful feeling to make something for someone else, someone you haven't even met!!
And talking of gifts, I received this beautiful book
Liesels Funfecke from the gorgeous Sarah of
The Last Piece. The book is written in German, but the pictures so beautiful and the patterns so clear you don't need the instructions to make the quilts. They are all paper-pieced which I adore.
It is written by Hilde Klatt and Liesel Niesner and I'm definately going to make the gorgeous quilt on the back cover called Mandala. Thank you so much Sarah for a fabulous book and more inspiration and ideas!
We have spent most of today entertaining different visitors, as one family left, another family arrived, been busy, but so much fun! We now have some of our sons friends around so I'm off in a minute to go and feed them all. How have you spent your first day of 2010? xo
28 comments:
Pretty Table runner and I love the colors in your quilt. You have a lovely blog.
The table runner is lovely and the quilt you made is just as wonderful with those colours and your great swirly quilting. I must have a go at that sometime.
A stunning table runner, I was lucky enough to win one of Nicolette's runners...beautiful work.
gorgeous gifts sent and recived and I had also seen a photo of the back of Nicolettes gift and it is beautiful......
I spent the day sewing and watching the rain fall yet again.........beautiful
Happy New Year Cathy.
Gorgeous table runner and lap quilt. I have spent the day at work, as i did last evening so not alot of sewing in this household.
Happy New Year Cathy!
Love the pictures you’ve taken, they’re much better than mine!
Yourlap quilt for Nancy is gorgeous and that book in German is an easy read for me, so I’ll have to check that one!
Happy New Year! Just having my morning tea and then I hope to have some sewing time. Beautiful gifts given and received.
Happy New Year Cathy!!!
Great SSCS gifts sent and received!!!
Fun gifts. The book from Sarah looks amazing. I think I'd find a German friend to interpret. I've had to do that with some Japanese books.
Happy New Year to you too, Cathy! What a wonderful table runner you received. I just love it!! The quilt that you made is just gorgeous too. Hmmmm... so can you speak German. I guess you really don't have to, because we quilters can translate the pictures, right!
Happy New Year, Cathy! What a great table runner! And I love the lap quilt you sent along -- I want to reach out and touch your quilting. And now I have funfecke envy. I think I need to order that book because it looks like a lot of fun.
Happy New Year! 1:30! wow you late nighter! I was in bed and asleep by 12:30, and gosh I have a headache this morning and I don't even drink! what a party girl huh? ;-) you gifties look wonderful. the lap quilt is so cozy!
happy new year!! i hope that this coming year is just lovely in every way for you! the table runner is simply gorgeous! i love the reds she used, what a beautiful piece to have. :) xo
what a fun filled posts of gifts and wins. love the table runner, nice and colorful! your lap quilt looks so peaceful. good luck with that book, looks like fun!
Happy New Year, Cathy! Great tablerunner and book (I'll bet you make an absoulutely fabulous Mandala quilt!), but I especially love the lap quilt you made. Beautiful! Looking forward to lots of inspiration from you in 2010!
Oh wow, that runner is gorgeous! :) I'm excited to see your take on that mandala quilt! Exciting! :)
We're just hanging out today. There's a lovely gusty rain that makes for a nice cozy day inside! We're a little tired too...people were lighting off fireworks last night and my daughter was too afraid to go to bed... *sigh*
Happy New Year, Cathy! What great gifts! Love the table runner.
I spent the first day of the year getting together and taking pictures of my first blog giveaway that will be posted in a few days! Then I went to work till late evening. It pays for the fabric addiction!
Happy New Year Cathy...love both SSCS presents...two clever ladies. The book looks great too!
What lovely gifts you made/received. I hope you manage to get some time to create once the house clears out!
Fabulous table runner, I love the big snow flakes and how they are quilted around.
Really cute stuff. Love the snowflake and the table runner is perfect.
Beautiful pieces to ring in the New Year and I can't wait, can't wait! to see you do the Mandala quilt!
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! Love the table runner you received as a gift. The snowflakes are gorgeous. The quilt you made is also beautiful. Great colors!
Your lap quilt is gorgeous! I'm sure the receiver will be very grateful. :-)
Happy Happy New year! I love the table runner!
Love this particular quilt of yours a lot..it is like painting a huge picture of many many colors.
GREAT! I should get the book you have there.
I might get this book soon and help me out with my quilting. :P
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