Rainbows and feathers.

When I heard that the Bloggers quilt festival was on again I just had to get involved this time.

So here's a rehash on the Matjana quilt I finished earlier in the year.

Over a year ago I popped into my LQS and picked up a few fabrics in a ROYGBIV range. I can't do bright orange so I opted for more subdued, apricot tones.

Here's the first quilt I made. I gave it to a dear friend Anna. It's straight out of the dryer, please forgive my wrinkles.

I had enough leftover HSTs to make another twin for this one, so I got sewing. I wanted to mix up the zig zag a bit so pieced the second differently. There were all these neat squares between the colours. I just knew they were screaming out for some intricate quilting.

So off I went, I did spiders webs and swirls and lots and lots of feathers.

We ended up auctioning the quilt to raise funds for Matjana Pre-School in Swaziland. Wonderfully, Anna ended up winning the second quilt, so now she has a pair. I promised her I'd jazz up the quilting on the first so she has two lovely quilts and doesn't have to choose which of her children gets the prettier one.

Thanks for stopping by, be sure to check out the other quilts in the Bloggers Quilt Festival. There are some shit hot ones out there.

Matjana Preschool Water Fundraiser

 Matjana preschool is a wonderful pre-school in Swaziland. They have recently received funding to build a kitchen to help out with nutrition of the local pre-schoolers. We are trying to raise enough money so they can get water to the kitchen instead of having to walk back and forth from the well. 


With generous donations form my dear friends I present to you an incredible list of wonderful goods you can buy. If you don't want to buy any of these how about a donation? If you can't afford a donation can you please share this with all your friends across whatever media you choose. Thanks.


Bidding will be done in the comments, if you have any questions or problems please leave a comment or drop me an email. 


All bidding is in Australian dollars. Bidding closed at 5pm AEST on the 18th of March.

Modern Cowl.

Crimson Tide Shawl.

Adorable baby bee cardi.

Heidi hand dyed yarn.

Hand spun Granite Grey.

Berry Best

Ashes

Forest Berries.
 All yarns are dyed by Emily the Enabler

Rainbow quilt 

There is also a pair of hand knit, hand dyed socks made to fit your feet. They haven't been made yet because we don't know your foot measurements. The above is an example. 

Bidding closes at 5pm on March 18th. Let's go, let's get some water for these kids.

Auction Closed - Bespoke socks

This is an amazing donation. A Guyra Girl makes the MOST amazing hand dyed/handknit socks. Take a minute to check out her blog, there's lots of pictures of her handiwork. I have several pairs and I love them.

For example

  These are my favourite.

She has offered a pair of socks dyed in your preference of colours and made to fit your foot measurement. ZOMG. I know. You really don't want to miss out on these because her socks are fantastic.

I'd really like to win these myself so I'm going to put in a bid of $A20

Auction rules. Post your bid in the comments, it needs to be higher than the previous bid to count.

I need to be able to get in touch with you. Leave me an email address, or make sure your 'no reply' is turned off.

I will pay postage anywhere in the world. Once you have provided me with proof of  deposit to Matjana Pre-School I will pop your goods in the mail. Registered of course.

 Bidding closes at 5pm on the 18th of March




Closed - Congratulation Kaaktus.

Matjana Quilt

Want to buy a quilt? If not want to donate to Matjana pre-school? If you can't afford a donation please let as many of your friends know about this auction as you can.

We're trying to raise $3,000 to help get water to the Pre-school's new kitchen.

Up for auction is this quilt, made by me.

It's a rainbow zig zag layout, in each of the squares I have done some neat free motion quilting. There's spiderwebs and clouds and flowers and lots of feathers. it's a really beautiful quilt, I'd love to keep it myself.

It is bound in a sweet little Japanese print that I couldn't find the name of on the selvedge.

backing is a soft orange. Most of the fabrics came from Get Stitched

It measures ??

Now, this quilt is not perfect. Some of the points don't match up, Some of the quilting tension is a little off, but all in all it's a wonderful quilt and I'd be happy to keep it any day.

Auction rules. Post your bid in the comments, it needs to be higher than the previous bid to count.

I need to be able to get in touch with you. Leave me an email address, or make sure your 'no reply' is turned off.

I will pay postage anywhere in the world. Once you have provided me with proof of  deposit to Matjana Pre-School I will pop your goods in the mail. Registered of course.

The lines have now washed out.

Auction rules. Post your bid in the comments, it needs to be higher than the previous bid to count.

I need to be able to get in touch with you. Leave me an email address, or make sure your 'no reply' is turned off.

I will pay postage anywhere in the world. Once you have provided me with proof of  deposit to Matjana Pre-School I will pop your goods in the mail. Registered of course.

I'm going to start bidding at $A20

Bidding closes at 5pm on the 18th of March. Go

Auction Closed- Forest Berries

This yarn is delicious and vibrant and in my favourite cool colours. It is 100gms of 100% merino 4ply yarn hand dyed by Emily. As per usual this is gorgeous. One of the neat things about Emily's dye jobs is she's an expert at avoiding pooling. Anyway, this yarn is soft and delicious and I want to keep it forever, but I'll start bidding at $A5.

Auction rules. Post your bid in the comments, it needs to be higher than the previous bid to count.

I need to be able to get in touch with you. Leave me an email address, or make sure your 'no reply' is turned off.

I will pay postage anywhere in the world. Once you have provided me with proof of  deposit to Matjana Pre-School I will pop your goods in the mail. Registered of course.

Bidding closes at 5pm AEST on the 18th of March.


Closed - Congratulations Ridgestitch.

Auction Closed- Ashes

Ashes is a 100% wool 12 ply crepe hand dyed by Emily. It is a lovely mix for light grey through to a charcoal. Great hard wearing yarn in a nice big size. I'd make myself a hot as beanie out of this  in a second. Well, a couple of hours anyway.

Bidding starts at $A5

Auction rules. Post your bid in the comments, it needs to be higher than the previous bid to count.

I need to be able to get in touch with you. Leave me an email address, or make sure your 'no reply' is turned off.

I will pay postage anywhere in the world. Once you have provided me with proof of  deposit to Matjana Pre-School I will pop your goods in the mail. Registered of course.

Bidding closes at 5pm AEST on the 18th of March 2012


Closed - Congratulations Moomare

Auction Closed- Berrie Best

Berrie Best is 100g and 285 yards of 100% wool in an 8ply/dk weight hand dyed by Emily. 

I love this yarn, it's smooshy and delicious, the colours are bright and fun.

Auction rules. Post your bid in the comments, it needs to be higher than the previous bid to count.

I need to be able to get in touch with you. Leave me an email address, or make sure your 'no reply' is turned off.

I will pay postage anywhere in the world. Once you have provided me with proof of  deposit to Matjana Pre-School I will pop your goods in the mail. Registered of course.

I'm going to open the bidding at $A5. Go 

Bidding closes at 5pm AEST on the 18th of March.


Closed - Congratulations Moomare

Auction Closed- Granite Grey

On offer here we have 100g of 100% merino handspun. It is approximately an 8 ply/ dk weight.

This has been hand dyed by Emily in various greys.

Auction rules. Post your bid in the comments, it needs to be higher than the previous bid to count.

I need to be able to get in touch with you. Leave me an email address, or make sure your 'no reply' is turned off.

I will pay postage anywhere in the world. Once you have provided me with proof of  deposit to Matjana Pre-School I will pop your goods in the mail. Registered of course.

Bidding starts at $A5 

Bidding closes at 5pm AEST on the 18th of March.


Closed - Congratulations Ridgestitch.

Auction Closed- Heidi Yarn

 

Heidi is 100% machine washable wool hand dyed by Emily. There is 150g and is a 10 ply/worsted weight.

This yarn is gorgeous, there's deep reds with blue and purple highlights. Loving the crap out of this yarn.

Auction rules. Post your bid in the comments, it needs to be higher than the previous bid to count.

I need to be able to get in touch with you. Leave me an email address, or make sure your 'no reply' is turned off.

I will pay postage anywhere in the world. Once you have provided me with proof of  deposit to Matjana Pre-School I will pop your goods in the mail. Registered of course.

Bidding starts at $A5 

Bidding closes at 5pm AEST on the 18th of March. 

Closed. Congratulations Mamma5.

Auction Closed- Crimson Tide

Crimson tide is the most beautiful shawl.  Knit out of Kauni Woll 8/1. This yarn is amazing, it has the possibly the best gradients on the market today.

Crimson tide was hand knit by Amanda and kindly donated by Emily. Here's the Ravelry linl.

This shawl is seriously gorgeous, in fact I have already had an offer for $50, so bidding begins at $50.

Auction rules. Post your bid in the comments, it needs to be higher than the previous bid to count.

I need to be able to get in touch with you. Leave me an email address, or make sure your 'no reply' is turned off.

I will pay postage anywhere in the world. Once you have provided me with proof of  deposit to Matjana Pre-School I will pop your goods in the mail. Registered of course.
Bidding closes at 5pm AEST on the 18th of March.


Closed - Congratulations Glenn

Auction Closed- Modern Cowl

Gorgeous modern cowl  made from the deliciously squishy Zara Plus. I've seen these in stores for over $50. Hand crocheted by Emily. 

See how happy this cowl can make you.

Bids start at $A5

Auction rules. Post your bid in the comments, it needs to be higher than the previous bid to count.

I need to be able to get in touch with you. Leave me an email address, or make sure your 'no reply' is turned off.

I will pay postage anywhere in the world. Once you have provided me with proof of  deposit to Matjana Pre-School I will pop your goods in the mail. Registered of course.
Bidding ends at 5pl AEST on the 18th of March 2012


Closed. Congratulations Beckyetal.

matjana quilt draws closer

I've bought the binding.

I've finished the quilting

(sorry about the iphone pic, I seem to have developed a love of my phone and a hate of my camera, this will change. I promise)

I've got two friends joining in the auction. The incredible A Guyra Girl who makes THE BEST socks. I have several pairs made by her and they're amazing. She's kindly offered to donate a pair of bespoke socks. Made to fit your feet. Isn't she amazing?

Emily the Enabler is my darling friend who is a whiz at dying all things wool related. Her fibre and yarns are to die for (see what I did there?). I'm not sure on details of this fantastic donation yet, but I'll keep you posted.

I'm so grateful to know these incredible women. They make each and everyone of my days brighter.

I'm planning on running this auction through my blog and just getting bids in the comments. Is this a good idea? What do I have to be careful of?

In the meantime while we're waiting for this auction to kick off, why not donate some funds?

Matjana Preschool

You know those friends of yours that you wish you were more like. My best friend is my hero, I wish I was more like her. She ran away from home at 14 and we didn't see her for years, then she came back into my life and we went on stupid road trips together then she studied and eventually ended up in Swaziland. She's currently undertaking a PhD, with DIAL UP!! I know right. She comes back from time to time and entertains me with stories of her life, some hilarious, some tragic. All in all the girl is an inspiration.

Well, she is one of the founders of Matjana Preschool. That's her in the photo. So as not to be so boring and white bread middle of the road I've become the Vice President of the commitee of Matjana.

The main thing I need to do is to fundraise. I'm going to auction one of my quilts. I just need to finish it first. So keep checking in here, once it starts I need you to pimp this auction too. You may just get a fantastic bargain.

In the mean time, if you're looking for somewhere new to donate to this Christmas why not think of the Swazi preschoolers, or why not Zoidberg. lol.