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I have plenty of time to play with fabric with no computer available to take me away from my sewing machine. So I have been very busy with some paper piecing blocks. I showed you last week the first New York Beauty block I made for my Sew Sew Modern partner, well I completed 2 more blocks so I only need one more now! And my 3 blocks together I am using Rain fabric, I really like this line, the colour are lovely and bright and the pattern is so subtle. While I was paper piecing, I also started my Midnight in the Oasis quilt with a bundle of micro-mod fabric from Cloud 9 Fabrics. This was my NewFO Challenge for January so I am glad I kept to it! I made 3 triangles for the centre, I only need one more now. And this one is one for the me, me, me Bee too Linking to WIP Wednesday , WOW and the NewFO party .

The Doll Quilt Swap is coming to its deadline and although I had an idea for my partner for a while, I didn't get to the point of starting until recently. I decided on a Circle of Geese block to be framed with more flying geese and this week-end I was chain paper-piecing my geese for the circle until I had my block completed. I raided my batik stash to find a selection of greens for the circle of geese and used a Klona cream from Backstitch for the background. I really like the softness of the cream for this block. I made my block using the template from piece by number . So the central block is finished, I have also made all my geese for the border, I just need to add the borders and get onto the quilting to finish it this week. I hope my partner will like it! And of course because I like working on more than one project at once, I did more paper piecing to try out a New York Beauty block that I am planning to use for my Sew Sew Modern 4 swap partner. I ordered a lovely ra...

A little while ago I was contacted by Fons & Porter to ask if I wanted to review one of the class on offer at Daily Craft TV . There is a range of classes on offer: quilting, sewing, knitting, crochet, scrapbooking and paper craft. The choice of quilting classes was quite varied and it took me a while to choose one I must admit. I finally settled on How to Make the Paper-Pieced Beauty: Times Square by Jodie Davis and Diane Tomlinson. I have always wanting to make a New York Beauty quilt and I am sure I have enough batiks in my stash for it... but it is so intricate that I had never started it. I even joined a New York Beauty quilt along on Flicker a few years back but I never got started! The package comes as a 40-minutes video and also a document to download (which I believe has been previously been published in Love of Quilting magazine) which gives you the pattern, templates, fabric requirements and also the explanation on how to make the quilt. So you could actuall...