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