Back to work tomorrow

The holiday is over and I'm back to work in 12 hours, so the sewing room has been put away for a while :-(

I did manage to assemble and quilt my warm triangles quilt

 

And I've stitched down the binding on the white zigzag quilt

 

Now I can plan and shop for the next projects!!!!

 

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The one where Lisa crocheted a Dragon

For years Lisa has been crocheting flower squares, but suddenly she got the urge to follow instructions (maybe she's not really my daughter!)

And this is the result (so sorry about the awful light and the abundance of feet in the background!)

Isn't he cute!

Meanwhile I have done *some* sewing - the white zigzag quilt is now ready to be finished - the binding has been machined to the front and will be hand stitched as soon as the weather cools down a bit - it's far too hot for me to sit with a quilt on my lap while I stitch down the binding!

 

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The One where I made the Crafty Church Ladies Crochet!

I advertised this month's Crafty Church as a crochet special - suggesting that we use some of the donated wool to make 12 inch granny squares, then stitch them together and make charity blankets. This pic from Pinterest  was my inspiration:

We had a dozen ladies at Crafty Church and they all got crocheting - these were the ones I managed to get photos of

Here they are all hard at work 

 

As for me - I started laying out my zigzag quilt

and pinning the blocks together

4 more days at school and then I'll have plenty of time to sew the blocks

Fortnight round up

Life seems to have (again) got in the way of making and blogging, but her is a bit of a round up of the last couple of weeks . . .

We held a crafty church special and had a bunting production line - and made 35 yards/metres red white and blue bunting

That afternoon we had Kids Crafty Church - these two awesome girls learnt how to use a hand crank singer and made another 8 yards/metres of bunting

I made some more at home, and this is the finished 80 yards/metres around the village green for the queen's birthday

(Actually it's red white blue AND green - all the fabric was recycled from shirts, dresses and donated fabrics!)

I spent some money and have organised my threads

And I bodged some replacement candle holders for my garden candelabra

I've stitched, pressed and cut more blocks for my planned zig zag quilt

And practiced some screen printing for a class

Phew! Not too shabby as I'm working 40 hour weeks!!!!!

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I Is In Ireland!

It's lovely to be back at my second home!  Sewing, and chatting, and numerous cuppas with Jackie, catching up with her (and by extension, my) extended family, and generally putting the world as best to rights as we can!

On Monday we made a basket each

We started a FQ Pop Up (thank you Kathy)

We organising zips

. . . Auditioned blocks for a new quilt,

And there may have been cuddles with this little poppet, called Mouse!

And I've got all of Tuesday here too, and a bit of Wednesday!  Yippee! Xx

Beautiful Batiks

Lisa gave me this fabric bundle for Christmas 2013.

As sometimes happens I had to wait a while for them to speak to me; to tell me what they should become.

But today they have been cut and stitched and cut again: the inspiration from Pinterest is with them.

I'm now off school for a week, but I'm off to Ireland for some of the days, then back to a Thursday with family, a Friday with a smocking class at Chertsey Museum and a Bunting class at church, a Saturday with a Race For Life 5 kilometres AND Kids Crafty Church, a Sunday at my mum's . . .  and there endeth my holiday! 

Super Saturday

British Schools know how to put on a Summer Fete!

It was my school's turn this weekend, (along with thousands of others I'm sure) and we had a great day: Pimms, burgers and about a hundred different types of cakes with tea and coffee were on offer, and stalls were selling plants, toys, books etc, as well as numerous tombola stalls.

Nearly all the stuff had been donated by the parents, who then came out in their hundreds to let the children buy or win it back!

I had a stall and had a few quilts and bags on display, and had my baby Brother embroidery machine set up with a basket of brightly coloured flannels (wash cloths) by my side

I embroidered over a dozen flannels there, and came home with orders for another 9, plus bunting,

 

and I even sold a quilt - the pink zigzag one!

I've now spent the evening at the bigger Brother finishing the orders, and reckon its now about time for a celebratory glass of wine!

2011 May

 mum saw these...

my mum saw these quilts and thought of me, aren't they great :-)  I especially love the stained glass window and the matching quilt - must have been made by a very talented quilter!

Thank you  mummy!

not enough space

I have now tidied my sewing room (it seriously needed it) but I'm shorter on space than I was before.  I claim to not understand it, but between me and Mr Mastercard, I know exactly why there is less space... 

... 3m of curtain fabric from Ikea, for Lisa's bedroom

... 10 FQs for £10 from Cottonpatch, well, it could have been rude not to as such a good price - aren't they YUMMY










... 2m pink batik to border the pink and purple pinwheels

... and these Moda Aviary fabrics to compliment the ones I got from CrossPatch a while ago; the ones I used for Kelli's baby's quilt.  I got these form the states - they got sent to dad's to save on postage costs, and astonishingly, one of the grandparents at school has a house just 5 minutes from Dad's so she kindly brought it back after their recent trip :-)

And the final photo is an almost-finish.  This is the Arnold's Attic fabric I won at Christmas that is finally quilted and half bound.  I've stitched the binding to the front, and pinned it to the back, but I'm fed up with it, and it doesn't have a home planned, so it can go back into to the pile until I fancy some hand sewing!

Need a good home ...

I have two quilts that are nearly finished.  I have been putting off the last hour or so of finishing as they don't have a home to go to, so I've been doing other projects instead.  However, I am getting to the stage where I need the space, so I would like these to go to a good home.

Please have a look at them and help me out - do you think of a deserving person or charity when you see these?  Can you suggest someone who would appreciate one?  Please can you use the comment form to suggest either an international charity, or a UK based charity or deserving cause, and I'll pick two suggestions next weekend and send the quilts.

Disappearing 9 Patch from Moda's Arnold's Attic range

and a Zig Zag rail fence.

TECHNICAL STUFF: measurements ... ZigZag: 170cmx130cm, D9P (browns and greens): about 115cm x 140cm.  Both 100% cotton top, quilted, and 100% fleece backing.  Machine washable to 40 degrees C)

Welcome Stash Manicurists

I am a bit very nervous, not sure I'll sleep tonight ... Any time now, Madame Samm over at Stash Manicure will be publishing a post from little old me.  It was meant to be in a few weeks time, but at short notice it was moved to 9th May so I ran out of time to find an excuse to wimp out!.

So welcome to Stash Manicurists, thank you so much for clicking the link!  The Charity Quilt giveaway moved down on the screen, but you can scroll down or [click here].  All comments will be looked at, whether on this post, that post or the garden post!

As an excuse for a photo on this post, have a look at these yummy fabrics I've been collecting for my Sis-In-Law's birthday pressie: red grapes, green grapes, corks and bottles of wine ... SO her!

Not telling what it is yet, just in case she visits the blog!