Red Thread Swap

This fruity apple square came from the Braxton family, NC as part of the red thread swap. I am only outstanding a further 2 squares from this swap and two from the Christmas swap. Yesterday and today I mailed all the RQ and in the pink fabrics and wishes, it cost a fortune! But Soon I will have enough fabrics to start the main adult quilt for BW! A big project and I am glad that I made the nursery quilt first as it was a steep learning curve!

Latest swaps!

I have only received one more square over the holiday period and I will take a picture of this and any more that I recieve from the Christmas or red swap over the weekend. I need to find the list to tick off all those I have recently received, but life is a bit chaotic since the loft conversion started as the spare bedrooms are storage space for the spare doors, new bathroom suite and contents of the loft!. I joined a swap on RQ! I am nearly there in terms of fabric squares and the list came out yesterday 25 paticipants! Yep, that was far bigger than I anticipated! Therefore last night and today I have been trying to make wishes and rotary cut 25 pieces of fabric. Luckily I have lots of fat quarters spare so it was a good way to use up most of my material! I am also hosting my second swap in the OHGW Yahoo quilt group, Its called in the pink and I only wanted a small swap of about 10 people. The last person joined today so the list if full! I had already cut the pink fabric - its so much easier with the rotary blade and cutting mat! So now I just need to make the 10 wishes to send. I did buy some pink paper when I hit the shops today, so it will be nice to try something new and try to be a bit more creative with my wishes! Beware!

Red Thread Swap

This lovely red print also arrived today and came from the Lemons family from Mississippi.

Christmas Swap

I received three squares and wishes form the Christas swap today. The first two fabrics come from the Ponto family, MN. The first is a lovely green bamboo print, and the second a print of flowers, and swirls on a dark burgendy background.

The third square comes from the Golden family, WI and is a nice print of circles in different shades of browns, blues and golds on a dark red background

Red Thread Swap

Now to catch up with some of the red thread swap squares that I have received!

Two squares came from the Strange family from Pennsylvania. The first is red with bright circles and the second is a very unusual 'strawberry' fabric.

The pretty red fabric with cream fans and flowers comes from the Wilder family, WI

The red fabric with tiny white flowers comes from the Ponto family.

Two red fabrics came from the Olson family, WI. The first was red with white polka dots, the second was a nice bright red with a black pattern,

The dark red fabric with the deep red ingrained pattern comes from the Tipton family, from TN


Finally the red fabric with the green and gold paisley pattern comes from Fabienne from Belgium. Another rare European OHGW collector!


I must post my squares and wishes more regularly! These are the last two swaps that I participated in. I am hosting a ' in the pink' swap in January, then time to start planning the OHGW main quilt!

Christmas swaps

These squares and wishes have arrived over the last 2 weeks, I am slow at updating all the pictures on my blog! These are from the OHGW Christmas swap, where you had a choice of Asian or Christmas fabrics. As we are adopting from China I chose the Asia option. The first two squishes are from the Mills family, Florida and are a beige patterned square and a green, red and gold Christmas patterned square. The Second squished are from the Walpart family and the material is a dark blue Asian print. The third square is from the Lambillon family from Belgium and is a red Christmas fabric. Two squares and Wishes came from the Olson family, WI. The first is a green fabric covered in different colour cartoon ladybirds, and the second is a red fabric with pretty large butterfly's,

The blue snowflake Christmas print and yellow ladybirds comes from the David Family, the bright Pink fabric with the Asian figures comes from Hazell family, this came with a lovely snowman Christmas card. The two Green squares with pink flowers comes from the Stork family in Atlanta.

As I have been lazy in posting squished received, I have been busy today, taking pictures and downloading. Later I will catch up with all the red squares received!

Thursdays squishes

These three squares and wishes arrived on Thursday. The two nursery fabric squares were the final ones to arrive from the nursery swap I hosted. These came from the Cesena family in California. Both pieces of fabric are identical and have a white background with country farm animals on the print. It is very cute.

The other fabric square comes from the 'red' group swap I participated in. It is a deep red flower printed fabric which was sent by the O'Hearn family from Denver, Colorado.

I have more squished from Fridays and Saturdays mail which I need to take pictures of and post either on Sunday or Monday

Individual swap

This fabric and wish came from Cecile Richard in France, and was an individual swap. The fabric has a white background with cute kittens all over it. Its quite beautiful.

Nursery swap

This beautiful nursery fabric has a white background and has a flowered print with colourful toys. I have now finished the nursery quilt (apart from the edge border) so sadly wont be able to use it in that, but I might use it as part of the pillow case, or in the main quilt. The fabric and wish is part of the nursery swap that I hosted and was sent by Cathy Pie, Co, USA.

Nursery Swap

These two identical fabrics came from the nursery swap. They have a blue background and have the characters from hey diddle diddle and other nursery rhymes. This came from the David family in Oklahoma and I will try to add a piece to my nursery quilt blue squares.

WWF China 2006 groups swap

This is one of the last squares and wishes from my first group swap and comes from the Carr family in Australia. The fabric is a cream background with colourful flowers and Asian children playing. I have received a few other similar fabrics but not identical and will put them all together as part of my adult 100 GW quilt.

Nursery quilt swap.

These two lovely fabrics were sent from Anik Nolet from Canada and part of the nursery quilt swap which I hosted on the OHGW Yahoo group. The have a white background with a green pattern of Beatrix potter characters and are very cute. I will add this into the nursery quilt.

I only have three outstanding swaps from the nursery exchange, and have recently take part in the red exchange, Christmas exchange and some individual fabric swaps so will hopefully soon have enough for the main 100 good wishes full size quilt. Thats a taks however, which I am not looking forward to starting.

Christmas swap

These two fabrics also came from the Sunbury family in Australia and were part of the OHGW Christmas swap. One fabric is a gorgeous pink flowered print and the other a dark blue print. I opted for Asian prints for this swap rather than Christmas fabrics.

Red swap squishes

These two red squishes came from the Sunbury family in Australia and are the first to arrive from the recent Red swap that I joined. One fabric is of an Asian print with writing and the other if of very colourful suns, kites and clouds with a red background.

Quilt square

This cream Asian fabric and wish come from a fellow firecracker, the Walton family and will be part of the full size quilt. It came with a very personal wish, thank you.

Nursery swap

This fabric was part of the nursery swap and came from Jean and Montana Tripton. from TN, I received two pieces of fabric and wishes, but had already cut one of the pieces for my nursery quilt before I took the picture!

Individual swap

This lovely leafy fabric and wish came from the Hepner family, Arizona and will be used on the 100 good wishes adult quilt. Sadly the wish was stuck to the envelope and got torn on opening, but when its glued to paper and laminated for the wish book it will be fine.

Individual swap

This creative wish and beautiful green jungle pattern was sent from the Ireton family in Ohio, and will be used as part of the nursery quilt.

Nursery swap

These two lovely fabrics and creative wishes came from Judy Trees in Arizona as part of the nursery quilt swap that I hosted.

Nursery quilt swap

These two pieces of lovely light blue fabric came from the Kitchens family, Texas as part of the nursery quilt swap that I hosted. They colour if fantastic and will look great on my nursery quilt that I have designed

Nursery Swap

These two lovely pieces of fabric and wishes were sent from the Golden family, WI as part of the nursery swap that I hosted. I nearly have enough nursery fabric squares and hope to start sewing the front together in the next two to three weeks.

WWWChina 2006 quilt swap

This is one of the last squishes to arrive from the wwwchina2006 group quilts swap, which was the first swap I got involved in. This blue fabric with lovely bugs and hearts came from the Davies family, DE. The wish and the envelope are both so beautifully made.