I LOVED doing these

I am definitely on the "Quirky" side of quilting, as I just loved doing these little houses for the Quirky little village that is going to be made up in one of the Around the Block quilts.

I am even inspired to have a go with some of my (mountains) of scraps and try some myself.

Travel well little houses, I will put you in the post tomorrow.

hmmmmmm...

,,, and now for the next project.

Quilts and Swaps

Last night my local quit group swapped back our friendship quilts strips we have been working on for about a year. Mine is the top Japanese one, and I was thrilled with it. Now it's just a matter of putting it all together. Mine is going to be a banner wall hanging.

This was one of the others and I just adoured the colours. It is going to look stunning when it is finished.

Today it was back to the Around the Block Swap. These colours were so pretty and I enjoyed making these blocks. They are in the post now and off the the lucky recipient.

While the iron was hot, I did strike and began the next one that I had in the line waiting to do. This was to be a quirky little village that is being made up. I had a bit of fun with it, and quite a bit of input from the kids. I might make another one of these B4 I send it off.

. . . and now I'm up to date with my swaps.

High Excitement

Peace - tranquility - my first day off

I'll be back with some sewing!

Secret Quilting Business

Finished this last week, and only one strip to go before our craft group's Friendship Quilt hand over. I searched my old photos to find these ones of Dainty Bess.

She is just so special.

I love her . . .

Gardening

Gardening all day today, and this is what caught my eye enough to stop and grab my camera. It is Dainty Bess - one of my favourite roses.

I'm off to bed . . . exhausted!

Back to work

I've been back at work for 3 days and feel very tired tonight.

I came home each night and gardened 'till dark . . .

Thanks for all the lovely comments about my new school bag and hand bag. I felt very "posh" and clever walking into school each day. Took the edge off just a bit.

. . . the children will come on Monday and the children at home will go on Monday.

Life as we know it, will return to some semblance of normality.

. . . and more sewing

I've only been briefly looking at the garden blooms as I have been madly sewing, but you have to love Double Delight - she is such a pretty Rose.

Second Hand school uniforms being purchased from networking with neighbours, and as an added extra thank you, I made a little Nichole Mallalieu Purse to put the money in. Love this little pattern, so easy to make and such a great result each time.

As I hadn't been out of my sewing room for hours upon hours, Miss Flowergarden decided to join me, and she started making a runner for her new dressing table. She chose all the fabrics from within the inner sanctum, and the funniest comment came from Master Flowergarden (14), when he said . . . "like, did you just have all those fabrics there ready to use?!"

Now I'm ready to start school for the year as I have made myself a new school bag,

and a new hand bag!

Like my friend Ric Rac, I am now "Dead Posh!"

Sewing sewing sewing . . .

As I have realised the deadline for this lovely long holiday - I have gone slightly into panic mode. I have enjoyed being out in my garden, but it was time to hit that new sewing machine and tick off a few jobs on the list.

. . . actually this first job wasn't actually on the list, but I decided to make a little quilt for my new sewing machine to sit on. I just need to bind it and it will be done. Very satisfying to do a tiny project like this that was finished almost in one day.

AROUND THE BLOCK was my next thing on the list. We had a month off for holidays and now it's back to it. I finished this one off for Sherridan and the next one arrived in the mail today.

back to the sewing room now - - -