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Blog hop - welcome and giveaway

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Thank you for joining " Our Craft Forum "’s blog hop. So what is “Our Craft Forum”? A craft forum for like minded people who love crafts. Mostly patchwork, stitching, quilting and the like. It’s a safe place to make new friends who share a love of craft & to have some fun and a little bit of laughter along the way & to join in on swaps of all types. This week end is designed to tell our blogging friends about our wonderful forum and to invite you to be a part of our forum. Several of our members will be offering tutorials, giveaways and some tips of the trade. The blog hop starts at miss~nances blog so if you want to join us on the whole journey please go there now and follow the links at the bottom of each post to find the next blog along the way. Each person who joins our forum from this blog hop will go in the draw for a craft pack. So to join our forum, please go to Our Craft Forum and register. Entries close at MIDNIGHT EDST (Sydney time) Sunday ...

Latest framed hexie

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I finished my latest framed hexie today and it is flying towards Natalie now. I used the birdie design from Little Miss Shabby's BOM. I really like how it turned out, this is probably one of my favorite one. Remember, the blog hop will start very soon... Stay tuned! Celine

Potholders in the mail

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After playing with my triangles and hexagons, my potholders are finally in the mail today. I hope my swap partner likes them. They were fun to make once I got over my mistakes! Here are the combinations I went for in the end: Celine

Little Birdies block #2

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... is finished. I showed you the stitching last week and it is now framed as well! I really enjoy this BOM and can't wait for block # 3! Celine

My cards have arrived in the US

Do you remember this post ? Well, my cards have reached Lenna who has posted very pretty pictures on her blog . Go and check them out, they are a lot nicer than the ones I took myself! Celine

Playing with triangles and hexies

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The deadline for the "Monochrome Pot Holder Pass" is fast approaching and although I had an idea of what to do for a while, I hadn't had chance to start until this week(-end). I had so much plan for the week as I was off work but didn't achieve much with my tonsillitis and Baby Girl's ear infection. Anyway, at least we are both on the mend now! I am really into hexies so I thought about making some hexagonal Pot Holder built from equilateral triangles, inspired by the Hexagon Quilt-along from Jaybird Quilts. So I pieced some strips together and cut them as triangles and then started to play while arranging the triangles into an hexagon, so many possibilities: Once I had decided which arrangement to go for, I thought I would be clever and use a "flip and stitch" method to attach the triangles together. So I started sewing my triangles to one another while on the wadding and it was all going relatively well until the last one when I realised I would...

Blog hop starting next Friday, save your week-end!

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This weekend " Our Craft Forum " is hosting a blog hop, from noon Friday 25 to Midnight Sunday 27 February EDST (Australian time). So what is “ Our Craft Forum ”? A craft forum for like minded people who loves crafts. Mostly patchwork, stitching, quilting and the like. It’s a safe place to make new friends who share a love of craft & to have some fun and a little bit of laughter along the way & to join in on swaps of all types (you have seen some on my blog with the framed hexies and flower hexies particularly). This week-end is designed to tell our blogging friends about our wonderful forum and to invite you to be a part of our forum. Several of our members will be offering tutorials, giveaways and some tips of the trade. The blog hop starts at miss~nances blog so if you want to join us on the whole journey please go to http://missnance.blogspot.com/ and follow the links at the bottom of each post to find the next blog along the way. Each person who join...