i'm on a roll

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

very true for us

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
Elbert Hubbard

like this

“If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.” Corrie TenBoom

Strength

All battles are first won or lost, in the mind"
Joan of Arc
Catholic Saint and National Heroine

Word for June

Right...the word for June is.......strength.
No time like the present to start thinking!!
Reveal.....30th June.
Have fun!!

Finally!!

Sorry..have been fighting with an uncooperative computer for the last couple of hours!!!!frustrating!

Anyway, my quilt... the colour bands go from dark to light representing that most beginnings emerge from darkness, whether that be morning, birth, dark times....then there is the koru shape, this represents the new bud of a fern unfolding... I am pleased with my first effort but it didn't turn out exactly as I had envisioned and I changed a few things as I went on but that was quite interesting in itself.. having to think of new things when I thought I already had it sorted!!

This is my offering.It also didnt exactly end up as I hoped...The safety house was meant to be glowing..sort of offering the promise of a new beginning. Also photographing quilts is harder than I realised..it looks different in person! Anyway the idea came from snippets on the news and in my life to do with fostering.There have been several shocking and awful and sad cases of child neglect lately..and DCP over here have released amazing stats about the increasing nos of children being removed from their families plus I have been to some meetings lately and heard some tales.

So the child is black with quilting in coloured thread just waiting to shine under new care...the background is meant to head from darkness to light....(and not be the beach as Liezza said it was! ) And the case is his past that he takes to his new Beginning!

At then beginning of my day...

It was a hard theme to do in one way as everything starts from nothing and that isn't very interesting. I was looking in my stash for something else and came across the cup and my mind began to tick!!! It didn't come out like I wanted - it should look like the cup is sitting on the bench infront of the window, with the sun rising. I impressed myself with the quilting on the sun - you know how much I don't like quilting - maybe because it is a small quilt it is easier to handle. I'm looking forward to seeing your quilts goirls.

the idea I didnt use

The beginnings of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. ~ Kate Chopin

I'm ready - finally

I have no plan - just need to finish one edge of binding and I'm done. It is amazing how much one can do in a night if push really becomes shove. Post when you are ready/have time.

Are we ready!!!!

How long now Linda! Is there a plan for tomorrow or do we just post when we are ready?

You are so on to technology Bev!! I'm still at the 'I should have done more before now' stage. Can we turn the clock back? Like maybe before Christmas would be nice (but of course the goirls Christmas stuff done!!). I know exactly what I am doing, done part of it but with starting my new job (and working more hours), not being able to sew it on Wednesday and the last 2 weekends having kids and working the Saturday, my month seems to have disappeared!!! If someone knows where it has gone, please let me know.

Wow ..now I can add a photo!!! Just need to make something and photo it....

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake. ~ Marie Beyon Ray

My Star...Liezza...doing what she likes!

How long!#@$!

Hello...I an starting to panic a bit..made a fine start but the inspiration has sort of disipated. Maybe when the Carlton footy game starts I will be able to sew up a storm (Hopefully in excitement not frustration!..Go Blues)
Hasnt this month flown.

Off to the quilt show

Bev and I are off to the quilt show in Perth tomorrow. Of course we are only going to look, listen and learn lots of new things. We'll come back all re-energized and then realise that is another day closer to the big reveal!!!!! Of well what can we do? We'll force ourselves to suck it all in and come home and sew all night - not!!!

welcome Jan

Welcome Jan.....22 days eh?no pressure. I have a basic background done! Well the first background..I may alter it at any time....most likely on the 30th! And I have to learn how to get a photo off the camera and into the computer and then into the blog! Beginnings beginnings.

Countdown

Today marks 22 days left till the reveal - just thought you'd like me to point that out to you!!!!

Well I'm finally here!! I hope I am in the right place!!
Thought I might still be trying to sign in on the 31st!
I am excited about being part of this!
I am thinking of what the word beginnings means to me.......mmm, this is interesting in itself!!

huh???

Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg. ~ Hans Christian Andersen

Beginnings

Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a consciousness. ~ Edward Said
The only joy in the world is to begin. ~ Cesare Pavese

Beginings reveal

For our first reveal - of 'Beginnings' - the end of this month, 31st May. Is that too early for you all? And is a 12" x 12" suitable or would a postcard size be a good start seeing we don't have a full month. Perhaps the size is optional.

Okay...since This is the first project and since this is the first blog how about we consider *beginnings*. Now Linda can decide when the reveal date shall be and what exactly we are making?
Cheers

I'm so pleased

I'm so excited to have finally begun. Now the hard part starts - doing the quilts. But first we have to pick a theme for our quilts. Are we going to take turns to pick a theme? How long do we have to do it? Questions? Perhaps we'll just sort things out as we go. Very gungho - pioneers you could say - Not!!! We just want to step outside our comfort zones and explore the other side (sound arty enough?). I pick Bev to decide our first theme. Over to her

we have started!

This is our space to discuss/plan and exhibit challenge quilts.

Let the fun begin!