About Me- Bird on the Border

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We have a wonderful son who has just married and I now have a wonderful daughter in law. So nice to have another girl in the family. My wonderful husband and I both work full time. We enjoy travelling ,going in our caravan, dining out and spending time with friends and visiting our children. Oh shouldn't forget "Tess" the spoilt black kelpie. I love anything country and Shabby Chic and I love patchwork and stitching and getting together with like minded ladies who love to do the same. I love catching up with friends over a cup of coffee , and the smell of biscuits cooking in the oven on a rainy day. I enjoy keeping in touch with friends I have met through blogging and sharing our sewing on line. I love going off on stitching retreats and quilting weekends with my quilting buddy Gail. And of course I love the birds in my garden. I also write the blog for our local quilt group Macintyre Quilters.

Wednesday, 16 January 2013

Quilt Challenge

 Our quilt group had a challenge to use the four prints at the back, blue, spot,orange and green to create any project we wanted, there was not a lot of fabric. We could add one fabric of our own, I chose the novelty print with the quilt lady. The backing could be our choice mine was the tape measure fabric, I found this fabric a long time ago and never really knew what to do with it. Finally it has a role to play....   I guess that what happens when we have a stash.
Thanks to Natalie Ross I decided my fabrics would make "Retreat Seat"

I am sure I can use it at Nundle. 

Quilt Group Challenge 


The seat - to be filled with a cushion .....




Fill the pockets with the necessities 









The layout


7 comments:

shez said...

wow Jenny this looks fantastic,well done.xx

Fiona @ Dragonfly-Crafts said...

Perfect for Nundle Jenny :) love your fabric and the pattern :)

Susan said...

Great idea Jenny. I would have really struggled with that challenge, but you did really well.

Kayly said...

Very creative thinking there! It looks great.

Peg - Happy In Quilting said...

Well done....great idea...

Jude said...

What a great idea to take to a retreat, very classy.

Sue said...

great idea, I should make one of these!