I received my lovely doll quilt from the wonderful Brittney!

She did a wonderful job making this Roald Dahl inspired little red riding hood. The illustration from his book "Gruesome Rhymes" shows little red holding up a gun, this was causing a bit of a stir in the Doll Quilt Swap group. So Brittney decided to give her a rotary cutter instead, making little red just about as bad ass as I am ;-)
My partner received her quilt as well so that wraps up this swap for me...sad face. It was lots of fun and I can not wait to do the Doll Quilt Swap again!

Yesterday I got an email from the lovely Elaine showing off her version of my circle quilt tutorial. Isn't this beautiful?! I love it.

Did you see the hearts she added instead of some of the circles? Sweet! This turned out such a warm and cozy quilt it makes me want to snuggle up on the couch under this and eat lots of chocolate and watch crappy telly. When you click on the picture it will take you to Elaine's blog where you can read all about this quilt and her other fun sewing projects.

Thank you Brittney and Elaine!!

x Leila

Dear Mr. Postman...

...thank you for bringing me this wonderful package!

~Katie Jumps Rope in the Flea Market and then Sits Down~

Received from Lucinda isn't she amazing?! This was by far my favorite of all the little quilts in this swap soooo happy it's mine now :-)

Should you feel like starting the year off with a nice swap over on Flickr, the deadline for the second round is 31st of January. No sign ups, just finish a quilt and send in pictures to the swap host before the 31st.

x Leila

Are you still there?

If you are you're my most favorite person in the world! I've been such a bad blogger lately~ sorry!

So time for some catching up.

I've joined yet another swap over on Flickr. I'm feeling like I should join a support group now "I'm Leila and I have a swapping habit" lol! But they're such good fun and I figured since I only join one at a time it's ok ~right?

Here's my entry made from this fab tutorial

Itty Bitty Ticker Tape Quilt 

This swap works a little different from the others I've entered so far. 

Instead of us all getting paired up with a partner we send our entries in anonymously. All players get to vote on their favorite mini quilt. Then after everything is added up our swap host divides the quilts up according to votes and popularity. Most popular quilt entries are more likely to get the quilt they voted for first. 

It pretty much works like we used to pick teams in gym class!

Now honestly, I don't think I ever was the last girl standing when it was time to pick teams, but this swap might be payback time for my luck in school!

 I hope my Itty Bitty Ticker Tape Quilt isn't going to be the girl nobody picked to be on their team!

I'm waiting for the weather to clear up a bit so I can take pictures of my latest quilt finish.

Be back soon!

x Leila