Native fauna paintings

I like to paint native fauna. I did a small water colour painting of a possum which I was very pleased with. I love the colours of Black Cockatoos; the bright red highlights are magnificent. Had to try a pair of them.
Decided to try a lizard in water colours and using a thickening medium for the crinkly bits on his skin his spines along the back and on his head. I feel he looks pretty lifelike.
I tink I will use this medium again because I like to texture it gives.

Chemo Quilt

My husband recently under went chemotherapy and to fill in the time sitting with him I decided to make a quilt, hand sewing the blocks. I chose a top with lots of different blocks that would be more manageable. Naturally I chose to make it in shades of purple.
It was pleasant to sit and sew while chatting with staff and patients, I had not hand pieced before and was pleased with the results. Philip's chemo lasted eight months (from August 2005) so I was able to finish it just after his chemo finished.
I machined quilted the top because I have never hand quilted and wanted to finished the quilt. I had decided to donate it to the Chemo unit where Philip had his therapy (Blacktown Oncology at Blacktown Hospital) and wanted to hand it over. I knew the unit had occasional raffles and thought they might like to use it.
The finished quilt was duly handed over - I put it into a calico bag with some lavender 'pillows' to keep it fresh until it was raffled. The girls were happy to receive it and thought they would save it for their Christmas raffle. I was so overwhelmed by their response - the quilting wasn't perfect but they thought it was wonderful. I felt very humble and so pleased that I had decided to donate it.
I hope who ever wins it has good fortune with their chemo results.

Journal Cover

I belong to an online quilting group (Picking Up Threads)and one of our activities is to make a cover for a journal.
I had covered an A4 journal with some crazy patchwork, purple of course, (my favourite colour) and have decided to make a large folder to keep all my sketches and patterns in. I got a sheet of cardboard and folded it in half then trimmed it to a more suitable size - 31.5cm x 41cm (12 1/2" x 16". I will use a piece of felt as a base to work on because I want to 'felt' onto it some silk fibres and add some dimension to it by making some gum leaves from silk fibres pressed between sheets of Romeo (a cold water soluble sheet) and then covered with free motion embroidery.

Amish style quilt

I have finished hand basting a quilt that I designed based on an Amish quilt pattern.
I am going to hand quilt it; something I haven't done before.
I am happy with the way the top has turned out, just hope the quilting is as good!