Awe-gust!

Already! 

this may be my smallest mosaic ever (so far!) but lets face it, 2 customer quilts (big ones) 5kgs of strawberries to turn into jam in one day, hot pads, AbFab Free Bees round Robin, PeaRoom BOM, In the Frame Purse Swap, 3 pillowcases of quilts for Festival, and a marathon making session no less, AND a road trip ... and exhale! 

I'm thrilled to have gotten my quilts to Birmingham on time and now can't wait to see all the other entries in the Guild Challenge, I honestly don't think there will be another one quite like mine, and from those that have seen it, totally get it ... makes me very happy, I'm almost excited. 

AweGust - so much potential, the plan? 

a couple more rounds of Ab Fabs, Bee blocks (the postie and I will be having words soon if he doesn't deliver me a package from Katy soon!), and quick purse for a special gift for a friend who is truly in need of a lift, a few more customer quilts and I have a plan of getting a couple of quick projects sorted before Festival ... so I'll try and come up for air more often :) 

in the mean time, enjoy the global sport, and Happy Quilting!

ps.  I think I'm too late to link to Lynne's Sew Fresh day, but I'll give it a go!

surprise mail ... and a bit more

Well, seems a certain lady has been rather busy ...

I got mail! 

This adorable pinnie arrived on my doorstop, surprising both the Teenage Diva and myself whilst we lounged about in our Jammie's the other morning.

Helen, you know Helen don't you - Archie the Wonder Dog ...

ah, now you know Helen  ... well she sent this, just to say thank you. 

No, thank you Helen, its marvellous, I love it!

My In the Frame Purse is now done, and the wee thingy to go in it is still a work in progress,

... but lets do the 'ta daaaaah' bit shall we ....

I'm really please with how it turned out, I do hope my partner loves it as much as I do!

and of course it hasn't all been work around here, I spent a rather lovely relaxed morning with Di yesterday, that included a little visit to the LQS ...

and what visit would be complete without a little treat or two ...

very modest!

And just so you know I haven't been slacking, I finished off the quilting on this one last night ...

and I'm pleased to say the lady was very happy when she collected it today ...  phew!

And so, I have evidence of more work in progress ...

Festival Challenge quilt ...

well you didn't think I was actually going to show you it did you? 

I've never been so organised, a real life planned and organised quilt ...

and I really do love how it's turned out.  Piecing done, quilting commenced ...

tomorrows jobs :  finish quilting, binding, hanging sleeve, make and add embellishments and label all three!  

Yep, Three quilts heading to festival, the other 2 are already done, sleeved up and just need labels for Fridays jolly to Birmingham...

wish me luck!

still here ...

... I've been reading a lot lately  ...  blogs  ... I treated myself to an ipad, though I've yet to work out how to blog from it...  I'm sure some of you clever ladies will point me in the right direction ...

... and 'those' books ... all three of them! 

But I have been busy sewing and quilting ...

Ab Fab Free Bees ...

I've been working on my 'In the Frame Purse' for my swap partner ...

and the purse is done, I've just got a few extras to get in hand ... and post it all this week.

the July BOM for the PeaRoom Quilters ...

Which went down at the summer celebration well!

And in addition to quilting a customer quilt, I've been very busy working on my Festival Quilt ...

delivery of said finished quilts by Friday this week! 

I'm afraid this is it for seeing the Quilters Guild Challenge quilt, I'd like the impact of it to be at the show.  I promise to show you the finished quilt come Festival of Quilts.   The theme is 'Britain, what it means to you' - oh the possibilities!

So whilst I've been awol, I have been beavering away ...

normal service to resume shortly :)

Birthday baking

This morning I managed to throw a cake in the oven and get it baked to take along to Lynne's for the Kitchen Guild, we were celebrating a birthday!

Sorry no evidence of cake, but there was plenty of eating being done!

So for the birthday girl, I managed to rustle up these Zakka Hot pads for the lovely Laulipops

I knew that FMF was close to her heart ...

and what better for a fellow baker of cakes than some pretty little hot pads to protect her clever little fingers  :)

Happy Birthday Laura! 

I also managed to get myself completely lost in the middle of Derbyshire, despite having been to Lynne's before, so I am so sorry for being a little (read as a lot) late for the party!

Now, if you'd like to see all the other lovely gifts that this particular birthday girl received, then head over here and leave her a little birthday love too :)

And lastly, but certainly not least, Happy Birthday to Susan,

...

who I didn't know had a birthday today, another place to visit while you are reading :) 

Sew Fresh Sewing day ?

I'm not so sure I qualify on the sewing stakes,

as there doesn't seem to be a lot of it being done at the moment ...

to make up for not posting in May ... due to the FQR and the small point I'd already gone ...

I give you my May ...

I might add there were 7 customer quilts in there as well as 2 of my own  :)

moving swiftly on ....  June ...

my meagre offerings  ... all I can say in my defence is that jam production has started in earnest!

today I picked 5 kg of strawberries from my allotment! 

and on the sewing front, there has been a somewhat func going on ...

so if you manage to find my mojo, .... please return it, I'm kinda lost without it  :) 

I'm linking this up with Lynne's Sew Fresh Sewing Day,  so head on over to see what everyone else has been up to  ...

July ...  you and I need to have a serious talk ... you get me!

Happy Quilting!

In the frame

For those of you not already in the swap, I signed up for the 'In the Frame Purse Swap' on Flickr

and this is my inspirational mosaic for my partner ...

following the success and whirlwind (not quite right word for this location right now - tornado in Lincolnshire) of the Purse classes run by the talented and inspirational Katy at the FQR, this swap is just the tonic to feed those desires for something pretty ...

don't ya think? 

So, using all my experience of making one whole purse, Di of Willowbeck Designs came over earlier this week to get a few clues on how to make one....

and some lunch, cake and whole lot a laughing too!

so the practice went well, apart from not following instructions, doing it all wrong - ish, it actually turned out pretty well ...

in fact, I really DO like this one, I might just have to use it myself, esepcially as the Diva definitely hasn't bagged it!

There are one or two other swaps I signed up to, but more on those another day.

Happy Weekend!

Fluffy Fun!

I'm just dropping in for a little fun with Cindy of Fluffy Sheep Quilting.  You know Cindy right?  go say hi - I'll wait ...

well we all love a little Kona solid in our stash, it's not just me, really it's not ...

so not being one to be left out of an opportunity for free fabric  ....

I give you my bundle selection of Kona Solids for Fluffy Sheep Quilting

if you haven't entered, that's ok :)  but head over and check it out anyway,

you never know!

I'll be back, once I get back to being me, with mojo and motivation :)