Last year at this time, I was in Brisbane, QLD Australia sipping Aussie wines with my pal, Lesley McDonald. Lesley owns and operates SEWCO, the largest Janome dealership in all of Australia. I met her several years ago at Quilt Market in Houston along with her BFF Rill and we have enjoyed a friendship at a distance ever since. Actually, I have never worked as hard in my life as the time I spent with Lesley in her native land! This women works every minute of every day and you can see that is the key to her unrivaled success! So sipping wine occurred at the end of very long days - days filled with sewing, quilting, meeting new friends and exploring the wonderful country I longed to visit since I was a girl!
Okay, so what does this have to do with the nine patch blocks you see in the picture? Well, believe it or not it is hard to fine Australian fabric in Australia! So what little I did find comprised several yards plus a jelly roll of many colors. Recently, someone sent me a link to a blog about making nine patches each day of the summer months of June, July and August. At the end of the summer, everyone gets together and shows off their blocks in a quilt they made. This just sounded like such a good idea - to spend a few minutes every day sewing a nine patch - I immediately thought of the Aussie Jelly Roll and walah (is that how you spell wallah - help me out you guys!) I was cutting strips to beat the band!
Now MY BFF, Laura Brown, set me straight right away when I told her about this idea...she is home right now caring for her husband, Billy, who had a stroke about a six weeks ago right after we got back from the Paducah Show. Laura is an excellent quilter - she thinks 'we' should make up all our strip sets on the weekend so that monday thru friday we can just cut and sew our nine patches - actually, that is a brilliant idea! so that is what I am doing, too. Thank you Laura for continuing to teach me how to get more things done in my very busy days!
If you want to see the blog that got all this started, go to Karen Montgomery's blog - when I saw what pretty quilts came from this challenge, I hopped right on board! please free free to post your progress on my Facebook Fan Page - I can't wait to see what we all make!
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