The Buddette Mug Rug Swap 2012

I hope you have all had a wonderful Easter week.   Our clocks here in the UK sprung forward just after midnight on Saturday and I’m hoping the weather follows suit and Spring arrives.  Meanwhile today is lovely and sunny but oh so cold for the time of year.    The daffodils are blooming so they must think it’s spring, they are such a cheerful sight.
Now last year, around about this time, a small group of online quilting friends, The Buddettes as we call ourselves, agreed to do a mug rug swap for Christmas instead of other gifts.   Although we had months most of us typically left it to the last minute didn’t we, lol, any how all have swapped now and received so I can now show you the results.
First up, the beautiful mug rugs that were made for me.

First one from Marianna,    second one from Rosemary,   third one from Frummie,

fourth and fifth (reverse side of fourth) from Cyn and the last one (but not least) from Rosa.   They are all wonderful!!  Thank you so much to all my Buddettes!


Now here are the ones I made for everyone:

Basket and fourpatch for Rosa, square basket for Frummie, (my own design mug rug except the idea for the embroidered flowers,those were adapted from one of Jenny’s of Elephantz patterns.
    
Purple for Marianna,   Repo brown and red for Rosemary, Jo Morton fabrics for Elaine,  (designed by the Patchsmith)
 
And the final one for Cyn.  Cyn loves orchids, pink and green. Pattern found on www.youcanmakethis.com  here  which I adapted for appliqué.

I’m linking this post with Connie’s  Tuesday Linky party on her blog Freemotion by the River.

Happy Quilting!
hugs
Ellyx

Scrap Happy Saturday Challenge 2013

This is the last Saturday for Soscrappy’s February’s RSC challenge of using purple scraps.  Here are my offerings :-

I completed my little rail fence blocks in purple, these will be 4 inches finished:

Here they are with last month’s pink rail fence blocks and the Boxed In blocks of both January and February showing a possible layout idea:

I also completed a little mug rug using my purple scraps:

  

The back is on the left and the front on the right.

The front is a Mug Rug pattern by The Patchsmith  called April Sky.   I’ve renamed mine  Purple Rain Sky :)   I did ‘Improv’ piecing for the back. I had a lot of fun with this project.

Lastly, I did get some Dear Jane Blocks done in the past few weeks but not as many as Angela ;)  Here are my offerings:

H-3  Berry Baskets in purple and G-11 Decisions, Decisions in pink.   I have a couple more purple ones I hope to stitch up tomorrow.

 

So that’s if from me :)  Check out what everyone else has been doing for this last Saturday in February  HERE .  I am early for a change ;) but there will be postings over the weekend and even maybe on Monday, so do check back there are so many neat projects on the go. 

 

Happy Stitching

Ellyx

Double sided Mug Rug and Honeycomb Stars update

Autumn side.  4 inch Maple leaf and fussy cut pumpkin pincushion from a novelty fabric.

Spring side. 4 inch finished on-point tulip and fussy cut basket of flowers from same novelty fabric.

And here is the progress on my hand pieced Honeycomb Stars made using Inklingo 2” Hexagons and 1” diamonds.

Short and sweet today :)   Enjoy!

Happy Sewing

Ellyx