Hi Lovely Quilty people!
Welcome to my stop on the New Quilt Blogger Blog Hop, it's so nice to see you!
This has been organised by the wonderfully patient and all knowing about things techy and bloggy Beth at Plum & June
My name is Rebecca and this is where I live, Tauranga, North Island, New Zealand
Check this beach out!! Ten minutes from my house and the mountain in the background is the view that I look at from my front deck everyday! So lucky !
This is Me, not really appropriate but however a good indication of my less than grown up personality!
I am just on the other side of 40 and the mother of 3 gorgeous boys 20,16 and 14 1/2 and one wee precious girl about to turn 2 this Friday! She is the ruler of us all LOL
I am now a single Mum after my gorgeous man passed away this New Years Day after a short Scuba Dive.
My Family, Friends and Sewing have been my lifelines.
I love to make Quilts and other related stuff, and of course buy Fabric.
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| Stash Bee blocks L to R May, April, March, February,January |
My Grandfather owned a Haberdashery when I was a babe and was a talented tailor.
My mother said I was sat on the floor behind the counter to play with the ribbons and velvets and offcuts, so really it's not my fault I am a texture junkie.
I am the eldest of four children, 3 girls and 1 boy.We 3 all live in the same town, but our brother had to move to Korea to get away from the ringing in his ears!
These are some of my all time favourite quilts so far, for various reasons
These top two are Sarah Fielke patterns and were made before I really knew anything about the online community.So I just followed the pattern and didn't really think about the difficulty level, or how freakin long they would take, or whether or not they were beyond my capabilities LOL
Blissful Days......ignorance really is bliss sometimes!
Once again this Sweetpea Stars Quilt was my own pattern based on the thought " I want to make an 8 pointed Star"
I didn't know what Y- Seams were, but I sure learnt fast and I did a really good job after 112 of them!
Sherbet Stars....it makes me smile every time I pull it out and is made entirely from Scraps without any thought put into placement at all.
I think I have roughly made 100 quilts in the last ten years and have given quite a few away, but am always perilously close to drowning in them.
They make me happy and I am a firm believer in doing what makes you happy every second of everyday.
I feel like I'm too new to give any blogging tips, however the one thing that really attracts me to new blogs is someone who is being him/herself.
You're not here to please anyone but yourself, so to attract like minded people
for conversations , advice and ideas, be authentic.
I swear a lot in real life so obviously I don't fill my post with swearwords but I like to think I type how I speak.Quite often it is grammatically incorrect, but I don't care, as long as I make sense ....haha that is a very loose term.
I haven't travelled far, only to Australia, so the Villa in Tuscany above looks like the perfect vacation spot to take my wee family if I win lotto anytime soon.
I certainly won't be waiting until wee OWB leaves home to travel though , she will just have to come with me!!
I think I've filled your eyeballs with enough chatter about me and any questions are Welcome personal or not, quilty or not, anything goes round here.
oops few more things I am supposed to include
Fave movie : Interview With A Vampire (love the costumes )
Fave Book : All Roald Dahl and the Stephanie Meyer Vampire Series ( I said I wasn't a grown up)
Fave TV Show : Game of Thrones!!! ( you should watch, but my boys say the books are better and way more graphic ???)
Fun Fact : As you can see I have naturally curly hair, in the 80's a week before my school ball I got a perm!!!!
I will not show you a photo, and" uh oh" is not a phrase you want to hear at the hairdressers or the beautician.
Please hop around and say Hi to the other new bloggers we're all quite lovely and some of us are Mad as Hatters.....the best way to be!
Quick question?
Do you search for tutorials when you want to learn how to make something you've seen online, or do you ask the person directly?
I would like to do some tutorials but am not sure what could be done that hasn't already?
I would like to do some tutorials but am not sure what could be done that hasn't already?
Have fun hopping :) around these gals....tell them I sent you x
Sarah @ Smiles Too Loudly
Vera @ Negligent Style
Michelle @ Michelle Bartholomew
Katie @ Good Golly Ginger
Cheryl @ Meadow Mist Designs
Jana @ Jana Machado
Karin @ Leigh Laurel Studios
Kim @ Ties That Bind Quilting
Yvonne @ Quilting Jet Girl
