It’s rather heartening to see that as the winter temperature reduces, there is a renewed focus of media reports on Quilts. I spotted not one but two articles today. Here they are :
January 21, 2012
January 21, 2012
Didn’t ever realize that I had green fingers ! My chili plant is actually growing in a coffee mug…and just noticed that it has borne a chili as well !
January 19, 2012
I won a giveaway from Shruti and she sent me Simplify —a book I have seen multiple time on Amazon and wanted to buy but couldn’t afford. She also sent me some amazing designer fabric.I had never seen designer fabric,more importantly, never felt it between my fingers. They feel awesome…cant imagine how people can bring themselves to cut them 
I have read the free preview pages of the book several times on Amazon so today was my opportunity to read the rest of the book and shimmer in the glory of having won it. So while I go and enjoy the book…you carry on with your blog-tour !
January 15, 2012
During my unsuccessful hunt to source batting locally, I chanced upon this lovely cotton fabric in pinkish read with white dots and brought home a meter. I intend to try the second Craftsy BOM–wonky slashed pond block with this fabric pairing it up with white.
Fabric
January 13, 2012
A lazy winter afternoon
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While lazing around one winter afternoon, I came upon the idea to get a new home for my new sun-glasses. Winter almost being an unheard term in these parts of the world, summer is an omnipresent season throughout the year—sunscreen and sun glasses are a girl’s best friend. So a little effort on a new cover seems just right.
A length of off white raw silk !
Some raw silk
Some embroidery in warm colours to herald the harsh Indian summer!
Buttonhole stitch
A dash of colour with a lovely bright linning quilting!
Embroidered eyeglass cover
With a beaded edge and its ready for a beach party !
Beaded edge
A good way of exploring this week’s stitch at TAST-2 and put it to optimal use 
Adding to FNSI for the month.
January 11, 2012
Slashed Blocks
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These slashed blocks are addictive. There is something inherently satisfying in cutting through fabric. Once I started them, there was no stopping and the availability of fabric in my cupbroad was the only compulsion to retire for the day.
Here are four out of the six blocks I made tonight! The yellow light of the study makes the fabric colours look more warm.
Linking them to WIP Wednesday.
and Craftsy Block of the Month.
January 8, 2012
Mellow Yellow
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I am participating in the Craftsy Block of the month and made my first slashed Block for January.
Mellow Yellow
The colours look nice and warm to me during the cold winter month.
Linking to Sew Modern Monday !
and Craftsy Block of the Month !
January 1, 2012
Welcome 2012 !
As I welcome the New Year and say goodbye to 2011, I take note of the hits and misses of the previous year. A wonderful achievement of last year was the 59 posts in my blog, a significant jump from the previous year— and a great motivator on blogsphere has been Shruti who has also started an Indian QuiltingGuild on Facebook.
Among tons of completed projects and gifts given with swaps shared, I had a set of projects that couldn’t be completed last year. However, there is one project which is closest to my heart and on which I have made significant progress over the past year— the grandmother’s flower garden made of handmade hexies. When I began the project, I thought I’d be able to complete just a few hexies and join them for a mug rug. But as the hexie flowers grew in number so did my hope of a larger project— a laptop sleve, a table top, a table cloth and gradually as the flowers inched towards 100 I started to believe that the bed cover/quilt top was actually possible.
As I herald a new year, I am proud to announce that the hexie count has reached 100 and I am starting the border hexies in white, hoping 2012 would see this as a completed project among several others.
November 30, 2011
My ever growing stack of hexies has reached 70
with the addition of last week’s 7.
The big plan is to make 30 more flowers in the last 30 days of the year. A round figure of 100 would be good to start making the borders
November 28, 2011
I am slowly getting obsessed by the hexies.
Slowly inching towards the flowers in the grandmother’s flower garden …
Linking it to {Sew} Modern Monday
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