anlabyhouse

I live on the edge of the Swan River Valley, the main grape growing/wine producing area of Perth in Western Australia and every year we hav...

Well, this was a quick and easy block, started and finished in three days.  Once that central piece with the striped ivory satin and fawn ve...

I finished the Christmas block this morning and would like to thank Colleen from CQInternational because if she hadn't suggested "C...

Two of the Victorian Symbolism Challenges with the CQInternational group were Birds a'flying (April) and Friendship Rings (May).  I mana...

The Tone on Tone Round Robin was organised by the Australian and New Zealand Southern Cross Crazies group. This block was a difficult colour...

1.  Work a single fly stitch about 3/8inch on either side of the anchoring thread in the centre. Take the anchoring thread down just on the ...

The apples in the centre of this block reminded me of high Summer, which means butterflies, dragonflies, bees and flowers. This was a quick ...

This is the block after I have worked some more Bamboo on the left hand side, thanks to Gerry's wonderful suggestion and the gold work o...

This afternoon I finished my Hearts and Hands for Sendai block.  I'm happy with it (I think) although DH suggested I should put somethin...

After yet another four hour stint stitching, the Stumpwork Japanese Koi are finished.  They are not perfect but I've had enough of them,...

I have been thinking, drawing and finally stitching three Koi fish for the pond in the centre of my Hearts and Hands for Sendai block.  He...

I came home from work today and went straight out to the studio for three hours to sort through my fabric stash for some suitable jewel colo...

Yesterday I received Susan's naked block in the Southern Cross Crazies Tone on Tone Round Robin. I had no idea just how much stuff in th...

These are my Parasols for the March Victorian Symbolism Challenge for CQI but it is also Block 12 for the Cream on Cream Crazy Quilt.  I hav...

I spent a lovely afternoon stitching a parasol for my next Block 12 while watching the entire three hours of DVD from my nephew's weddin...

  This is block which will be used for the Tone on Tone Round Robin  The latest Round Robin for SCC has a Tone-on-Tone theme.  ...

This is the second Fan block for the Victorian Symbolism Challenge because the first block only included fan charms.  I set myself a challen...

I had a lot of fun with this block, in fact it was hard to take it seriously.  The fish in the centre of the block looked very pale at firs...

 I have spent the last three hours holed up in my studio finishing off these seven Valentine's Day Fabric postcards for a swap with my S...

I have finished block 9 which started out with no particular theme and finished up being one of the main blocks in the quilt.  When I'd...