Fabric Galore, A letter, Some Quilts and A Thank You Card

When I went into town to collect our mail yesterday there was one of those wonderful cards sitting in there, full of promise, saying ‘You have a parcel to collect’!  And true to it’s word when I went to see the nice lady at the little hatch she handed me a big, fat yellow envelope.  Wanna see what was in it?  My prize from sew mama sew!  6 delicious pink fat quarters……

So pretty, I am chuffed to bits with them.

More mail arrived too; remember we sent a card to Andy’s dad a couple of weeks ago?  Well, he wrote back which was just lovely.  Here are a couple of exerts from his letter.  So wonderful to think that a few lines in a card made him so happy and  prompted him to put pen to paper and write back…

“thank you both for the lovely card you sent us. It gave us a good laugh & it’s one we will keep. It was also nice, in this day & age of computers, mobiles etc to receive a simple letter full of news”

“this is the first letter I’ve written in many a year, so I needed the practice & they can only get better.”

It’s so easy to pick  up the phone or send an email  to say hello  but I’m finding more and more as I send out more and more cards that people really appreciate a  card received in the mail.  Is there someone that you haven’t written a letter or a short note to in a while?  Why not send an unexpected card today?  If you want to know about the card sending service I use and love for it’s sheer convenience comment me or email me at flitterbys@bigpond.com.

For the final day of ‘past craft’ here’s a few quilts….

I made this last winter from a selection of Amy Butler and Heather Bailey fabrics.  I made it using the ‘quilt as you go method’.  I love the look and feel of hand quilting and this method makes hand quilting really manageable and portable, some of these squares came on a camping trip with us.  It also meant I could make the back into a giant patchwork too.

This is an old fav.  I bought about 20 cotton shirts from the opp shop, patched them together and added a few vintage buttons.  I backed it with an old stripey cotton duvet cover.  It’s so soft and has that worn and ‘used’ feeling.

A taggy quilt for my Pen Pals little girl.  Lots of tutorials for these around the web.  I found this one helpful.  I also sewed  a couple of little bells on the inside.

This last one got a few comments from the ladies at my sewing group back home, they kept asking if it was for a child.  It was for my dad’s 60th birthday present!!!  He flies Ultralights (microlights) so I thought this was most appropriate for him!  It was from a pattern by Jan Mullens.  I doodled with the quilting, adding a bit of Aussie sunshine and some wind trails.  The label I made from a retro panel I picked up at an Opp Shop.

Today’s card is a ‘Thank You’.

Tags: amy butler, fat 1/4, fat quarter, heather bailey, jan mullens, mail a card, quilt as you go, recycled, send out cards, sendoutcards, sew mama sew