Lynette Anderson Designs

Winner...

H&F just could not resist awarding the H&F Wagtime pattern set to Cathy C. H&F are both looking forward to visiting the local orchestra and hoping that now they have an inside contact they may in fact be in line for the next vacant position that comes up!

......DreAm oN BoYS....

This is what Cathy says...

'My husband and I are members of Sunshine Coast Symphony Orchestra. we are the percussionists, my husband on timpani and me on auxiliary. I just love your new BOM. I would love to win it so that I can make this as a raffle quilt for the orchestra's end of year Proms Concert. Maybe Hugo and Felix could put in a guest appearance at our concert. This is so cute.....'
hugs Cathy

Please send me your postal address Cathy so I can get these patterns in the mail to you.

 

Beach breakfast..

Early this morning we went down to one of the beach cafes to have breakfast, this is where we parked the car.

Breakfast was as usual delicious but then anything you dont have to cook is generally good and if there is no washing up..well need I say more!

Its now raining and quite chilly so I am busy stitching at home in the warm, working on one of my new projects. This one is a bit repetitive in the stitchery part but has the look and feel of an antique quilt. I am just hoping that I have enough fabric to make a bed size quilt as I would love it on my bed, fingers crossed I have enough, otherwise I may have to beg some fabric from my friends across the pond who also bought some at sample spree. The fabric I am using is not due in stores until September and I hope to have my quilt and the pattern written by then.

Hope your stitching too,

H&F Wagtime giveaway..

Yeah, I have finally got a set of this BOM to give away so leave me a message for your chance to win......

My wooden buttons..

Recently my handpainted wooden buttons have been much in demand, the stores tell me they cant get enough of them, it seems you are all wanting them and so I wanted to say 'thank you' for your wonderful support.

There are some people in my household who have their very own buttons, heres Hugo..

Heres Felix....

I have recently added to the collection this cheeky reindeer (2 to a pack), sorry the pictures a bit blurry

Both the reindeer and the snowman should be in stores soon which is lucky as they are going to appear in a couple of different magazine projects, yes thats right there will be two different magazines each with a unique to them project that I have designed which also features my buttons.

There are lots more buttons to choose from so check out my button photo album.

Bye for now

Braid and ribbons...

How could I resist these gorgeous braids and ribbon and the ceramic tag is just lovely, there were a few to choose from but this was my favourite.

Hugo says hi woof and to let you know that he thinks the braids are boring........

unless of course they are for him to eat???

Spiders webs and sunrise..

This is one of the bridges that we cross on our morning walks with Hugo and this morning it was so very pretty.

The reason I had my camera with me was because I wanted to share these wonderful spiders webs with you, they look like fairy floss just hanging in the grass.

Just amazing, I have no idea what type of spider lives in them and I am not getting closer to see...sorry!

Well that was my nature walk for today, hope you are having a great day and if you happen to know what the spiders are do let me know.

bye for now

Button winner..

Thank you for all the wonderful ideas and suggestions about what Mr Snowman may be pulling along behind him? I cant reveal the whole picture yet as the project is destined for a French magazine later this year, which is very exciting for me!

 

You have given me some wonderful ideas for my next quilt... yes, its going to have a snowman theme and its such fun. Lots of drawings have been done and fabrics are chosen...... almost time to begin stitching.

Anyhow this Mr Snowman button goes to MGM, Mary Grace McNamara  Saturday, June 13, 2009 at 10:20 AM so Mary Grace email me your postal address so I can get this little man off to you. 

My mudpie quilt..

Here as promised is the picture of the quilt thats on my bed at the moment. The centre was made at a 'mystery quilt in a weekend' workshop several years ago. 

I added the simple flower border and outer border later to make it a bed sized quilt and to try and use up a few more of my scraps! 

As you can see its a very very scrappy quilt and I just love looking at the fabrics and challenging myself to try and remember where I bought them and of course which other projects I used them in.

Hope you enjoyed seeing this quilt?

PS. Tomorrow I will announce the winner of the Mr Snowman button.

Pond House...

I know you have seen this quilt of mine before but have a look at these ones that are being made in The Netherlands through a quilt shop called Jookies. Which is your favourite? Have you made or are you making this quilt? I would love to see yours so please send me a picture.

Sleepy Saturday mornings...

There is nothing better than a lie in on the weekends, except that our bed gets a bit crowded and by 7.30 I usually give up trying to have a lie in! 

I must show you the quilt that we have on our bed which you can see a peek of in this picture as its gorgeous. The centre of it was made in 'quilt in a weekend' workshop years ago (12 at least) and I added the floral trail border later so that it was bedsize.

We dont have much planned this weekend, although we are going to go and have a late breakfast out at one of our favourite beachside cafes where Hugo is also welcome.

Mum and Dad who love pot plants were recently heard saying that they were cutting back on plant pots as they are alot of work, are now to be found busy collecting some gorgeous Desert Roses (Adenium), this particular one has the most wonderful but weird pod growing. Looks a bit like a helicopter wing thing, hope you can spot it in this photo? We are all waiting to see what happens to it next.

The flowers on this one are so pretty, I can see the attraction and they dont need lots of water so I guess they may be less work to look after but collecting them seems to be the time consuming part now!

I have had a very slow week in the sewing department, I have done alot of thinking but I am not sure if that counts! I did get to edit the second proof of my chapter/project in a collaborative book that will be published later this year by David and Charles. I am very honoured to be working alongside some other very well known quilters and am looking forward to seeing the finished book.

The girls over at the Jolly Jabber have posted on their blog about my fabric line Hedgerow, it would be great if you visited them and (pretty please) left them a message so they know I have lots of lovely fans, it would be fantastic to blast them with lots of comments, so come on girls do your stuff for me! Thank you x x