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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

A finished quilt and some mail.

Hello,

Look at the lovely parcel that arrived in the post today. This arrived from Barb from http://www.barbscreations.blogspot.com/ I was lucky enough to win the prize in her first ever giveaway. The prize was for a journal cover. Barb said she was adding a few extra items. Well I was blessed to receive this parcel, it contained some new gold pins some beautiful buttons some pink cotton lace a packet of write-on-tabs to put in the journal. There was also 4 strands of DMC thread two in green shades and two in pink shades. The pink shades was No. 107 which is a variegated thread and No 3705. The green shades were No. 471 and No. 92 which is a variegated thread. There was also some extra material. I think Lucy has eyed this off already.Thank you very much for this lovely prize Barb.
This morning I put the binding on "A walk in the Garden Quilt". I bordered each embroidery with some chicken wire material. The main fabric I picked up last week at Textile Traders. It is a lovely garden print. In some of the embroideries I added some more flowers. In this sunflower block I embroidered over the first lot of embroidery to add some dimension to the flowers.


I was extremely pleased with how this has turned out. Now I just need to get a hanger for it.

Thanks to Lyn Briggs from http://www.moorepatchwork.com/ for giving me this pattern.
I hope everyone is enjoying this beautiful Autumn weather.
Happy days.
Bev C



5 comments:

Lyn Briggs said...

Well done, the quilt looks beautiful. I love the colours you have chosen and am especially glad that you enjoyed making it.
Regards
Lyn Briggs

Bobbie Lynn said...

Your quilt is beautiful. Looked like a fun quilt to do. Have a great rest of the week and weekend.

barb's creations said...

Bev,
I'm so glad you loved all the little surprises I added with your journal.My first blog giveaway has been fantastic.Keep an eye out for more giveaways in the next couple of months.I'm also going to be doing a Christmas in July giveaway :) Barb.

limpingalong said...

Oh, I love the colors! Beautiful!!

Simone de Klerk said...

Such a lovely win and your 'Walk in the Garden' is gorgeous!