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Recently finished this small quilt which I made for the EQA Crossroads Exhibition. I handed the quilt up to the EQA rep. at last Friday's Mid-West Branch meeting, and will find out later if it gets selected as one of the 10 EQA quilts from Ireland. I've also started a quilt-as-you-go log cabin quilt based on the quilt in the Japanese book "Patchwork Style" by Suzuko Koseki. At the moment I'm just using scraps from my scrap basket to make the blocks. I went through my scrap basket and separated out the lights and darks I'll need for the quilt - had a lot more usuable fabrics than I thought. Have 3 blocks finished so far, which are taking me a lot longer to finish than I thought (because of all the quilting involved) but at least when they're done that's it, no more quilting!

I finished this messenger-type bag over Christmas. Used a pattern from a Japanese craft book: ISBN-13: 978-4834729467 Made most of the bag out of a long Japanese fabric panel that I got at FoQ a few years ago - decided I might as well use it up. The bag of the back uses most of the panel piece - almost prefer it to the front.. The

Ordered these books from Amazon.co.jp a few weeks ago. My camera unfortunately decided to pack it in yesterday, so no photos until my new one arrives (hopefully I'll get it sometime this week!).

The book is another Japanese one (part of the Heart Warming Life Series). I've had the book for a number of years and have made 1 other bag out of it, so decided to try out another one. All the patterns in the book have the addition of beading or embroidery (even for the hexagon bag on the cover).

I'm supposed to be making a few larger quilts for entry to various shows etc. so of course I went off and made a few bags. Ooooops.... I made this one from Machine Made Patchworks 2 once I figured out the instructions (seeing as I don't speak Japanese!). The bag is made from all my hand-dyed fabrics (there's a few screen-printed ones & a bit of dyed velvet in there too). I bought the pink handles from a bag handle supplier in Australia - wish I'd ordered a few more coloured ones from them. Once I'd got the bug for looking at Japanese patchwork books (which I love, because they are so cute) I ordered a few more (5 in total) from Amazon.co.jp. Only ordered them last Thursday and got them on Monday. I'm still reading through them, but there's some projects in them that I'm definately going to make.