Challenge Favourate Places

This is the piece I did the our challenge in Challenging Ourselves.

There are 20 of us the try and do the challenge each 2 months.

Favourite Places.
I thought and thought what I would do for this challenge. I had different things going on in my mind and could not decide. A couple of weeks ago it all came to me. Favourite Places well my favourite places are my home, the land, dam and gardens. So that is what I did.

It is looking from the road up over the dam to our place. I have not quite got the proportions of the house to the garages right but it is close enough.

First I used the confetti method of cutting up lots of fabric into small pieces of the colour I needed. Blues for the sky and Greens for the hills and randomly quilted them down.

I then appliqué the house onto thick tearaway. It was then stitched to the background.

The gardens were all thread painted on to thick tearaway before stitching to the background.

The road was appliqued on to the background.

I then thread painting the palm trees on to the piece.

Keep stitching

Delia

Grand Total Raised from Auctions and Raffles

I feel I have been honoured to have been part of this wonderful fun raising effort and would like to thank all that were involved in the Auctions and Raffles and not forgetting the bidders. We have all made this happen.
Delia

QUEENSLAND FLOOD APPEAL AUCTION

Queensland Flood Appeal Auction
As I'm sure you are aware that many bloggers are holding Auctions to raise money for the people in our devastated state of Queensland.

All of the money raised at these auctions will go directly to the Queensland Government Flood Relief Appeal.

You can read about the flood here Brisbane Flood

The stories of loss and also courage have ripped our hearts out.

Thank you for coordinating the auctions Toni from Make it Perfect

Autumion

It is one of my hand dyed sunprinted designs. The piece is free motion quilted.

Size43cm x43cm ( 17" x17 " )

How this auction works:
1. Bidding will start at $40(Australian).
2. You can place a bid by leaving a comment on this blog post with your bid amount and email address. Please make sure that your bid is higher than the previous bidder.
3. Your bid must be in whole dollar increments.
4. This auction is open to everyone, Postage is FREE for All.
5. The auction begins NOW and will END at midnight on Monday 24th January 2011 (Brisbane time).
6. At the close of the auction, I will contact the winner (please make sure your bid comment includes your email address). The winner will pay the winning amount directly into the Premier's Flood Relief Appeal and send me proof of payment via email. Once proof of payment has been received, I will post your quilt to you.
7. Thank you for participating and happy bidding!

Please share this auction with as many people as you can.

Thank you Delia

These floods are unbelievable. Nothing like we have ever seen before.

80% of Queensland is in flood or has been.

The flooding is now spreading to NSW.

Click here to donate to the flood appeal
http://www.qld.gov.au/floods/donate.html

All who are in the flood areas please take care and don't take risks.

Delia

Update to let you know

Most of you would be aware I live in South East Queensland where the flooding is an absolute disaster.
To the lovely people that have emailed me with their concerns we are OK.
The unrelenting rain dropped 34inches on our town in two days. We were cut off in our town for 3 days but when the tide fell we could get out but had to be back before it rose again. Our local river is governed by the tides.
A lot of towns in the north, west, Brisbane, Ipswich and the Lockey Valley are in a total mess. A lot of the homes are under water with only the roofs showing. Something like 20,000 plus.
Major flooding of the main roads in the state. The main highway in the state is cut in a number of places.

Click here to donate to the flood appeal
http://www.qld.gov.au/floods/donate.html


Thank you for your concerns.

Delia

Teaching and a surprise

For the past two years I have taught a group of ladies in GinGin . This year just before Christmas they sent me this wonderful card that they made to thank me. They also included a voucher for Brian's at Kawana. Yes I did have fun choosing fabric to use later in the year.

The card - they all made a litte photo of their quilt an then attatched it to the lovely card that Ruth had made. I believe it is her flowering tree on the front.

I was so touched by this.

Keep stitching

Delia

More sewing for our Granddaughter

Our little Angel is turning 4 on Tuesday and I could not resist making here more clothes. She loves clothes as most 4 year old so.

I have just put these in the mail along with something for her brother and cousin. I also got her another coloured hair piece.

Keep stitching

Delia