Crazy West Indies Love!

Soooooooooo, I went and bought those 2 Jennifer Paganelli West Indies fat quarter bundles. They had been sitting in my etsy faves for a while, and then they became reduced, and my resolve.......completely evaporated.

I have not regretted it for an instant....I just adore those vibrant blues and purples together, with that meager dash of red and green. Those bundles made it to the cutting mat in super duper record time!

I wanted to keep it simple, I wanted to show off those fabulous birds and I wanted to play with the contrast of the blue and purple. Mostly though, I admit, I wanted to make a quick quilt!

How can you ever go wrong with half square triangles?

I had some inspirational help added to my quilt plan scribblings.

Layout idea #1.

Layout idea #2.

But you know what, yes I loved them but......errrrrrr too contrived, too obvious, sooooooooo....... I played around and I played around and I finally settled for, and really love, for who knows what reason, this!!




It's wild, it's crazy, and I really, really love how my eye travels all the way around the quilt. It shouldn't work really!

For those eagle eyes out there, yes I am going to use the Joel Dewberry green woodgrain. It will be a border, as wide as I can make with the quantity I have. I plan to make it stretch further by putting west indies and woodgrain hst's in each corner. My main hst's are large, like 9.5" large!

Thanks for popping by,
cheerio for now
x Mandy

want a Christmas giggle?

here's a little Mandalin Christmas fun!

might take a min to download

x Mandy

getting back to blogging!

Pics of latest sewing to hopefully start the flow.......

Nook Stock

3x6 Bee

Hexagon quilt progressing

Market stock

opps, forgot to say cheerio

cheerio for now!
x Mandy

New Market in the Mountains

This Market looks just the place to hang out at on the 1st Saturday of every month! I know I'm going to be there. Check out the FB page here, there is also a list of stallholders and pics of their work. The fun (officially) starts at 10am and goes on until 3pm, what a sensible time to start a market, breakfast first and then a visit to the market, totally perfect! And enough time if your driving up from Sydney.

I'm very seriously thinking of applying for a stall for November, I haven't enough stock for Oct plus I'm doing the Falls ArtFest at the end of October. So, unless it all sells at the ArtFest (ha!) I'll should have enough stock........so, so tempting.

Let me know if you decide to go, yes you!

cheerio for now

x Mandy

Spring has sprung!

Spring in my garden ~2011, a photo by mandalin18 on Flickr.

Even little bits of colour can lift the spirits out of the winter doldrums! There's blossom and bee's, blue skies and bluebells about to erupt into bloom! Yay for spring, I love you!

Be back soon,
x Mandy

Recent Swap

Scrappy Mug Rug Swap (mostly), a photo by mandalin18 on Flickr.

Scrappy Mug Rug Swap, the Haiku round!

I received my adorable mug rug today, boy did it put a smile on my face! 'Kinda Obsessed', lol, you could say that, you'd be right if you did. And my DH would wholeheartedly agree, hee hee. Jan pegged me fair and square, I love, love, love it!

It's so much having little quilts other people have made for me, around me. The crosses quilt came from Leah, the gal pals from Dolores and now the obsessed lass from Jan. I just love swaps!

I hope my little free wheeling hexagon mug rug doesn't take too long to arrive at my partners.

cheerio for now!
x Mandy

DQS11 ~finished

DQS11 ~finished, a photo by mandalin18 on Flickr.

and posted!

I'm so pleased with how this one finished up, the neighbourhood cat has given it his seal of approval too! phew!

I enjoyed every process making this mini, from the fabric to the paper piecing to the quilting. And I smiled when I handed it over to the post lady. Hopefully it'll make a quick journey, as I have to come clean and say I'm late!!! I've always flown close to the wind in sending my quilties, but this time, well, I missed the first few tides.

cheerio for now,
thanks for visiting.

I really enjoy reading your comments, but don't seem to have enough time these days to reply. Perhaps it's because I'm sewing more, how ironic!

xox Mandy