Friday, 31 August 2012

CJQP July Block

This is my July block for CJQP, it is quite hard to keep finding new things to put in these blocks but once I get started I love doing them, I want to put them all together when they are finished to make a wallhanging for my bedroom, I have them in a file and they look so pretty.
We saw our grandson Jude today, he is such a warm cuddly bundle, I cannot believe he is 8 months old already, I am sure all grandparents feel like we do.


Sunday, 26 August 2012

I Spy Quilt

I have had a lovely day in my sewing room today, I have been putting together an I Spy quilt for Jude, it has lots of animals and fruit and veg all very colourful oh there are cars and trucks as well, I also added lots of ribbon tags as Jude has a fascination for silky labels and concentrates very hard on them poking his little finger at them so I found lots of different texxtured ribbon and made lots of tags for him to play with, all I have to do now is put it together with wadding and a backing and then quilt it, I may have a go on Kathleens longarm quilter so that I can get it done quickly.
Hope you are all having a good day.



Saturday, 25 August 2012

I have just started an 'I Spy Quilt' I have not done one before but now I have started one I can see why children would love them, they are so colourful and I am using lots of different childrens fabrics so that there are lots of different pictures, I have lots of different animal prints in really bright colours, Jude will have many happy hours finding different one's.

Kathleen and I popped out to do some food shopping today as it is a bank holiday here this weekend, we were utterly amazed at the amount of food people were buying anyone would think they were shopping for a month not one extra days holiday, we went today to save going on holiday Monday. The weather is of course not good, this is usual on Bank Holidays here it would'nt be the same if we did'nt have to go out with a mac and an umbrella.

I am sat in the summerhouse posting this and Tony is sat just outside and any minute now he is going to get wet because I can hear thunder in the distance and there is a very black cloud right over his head, I really do not feel like cooking dinner tonight, I would love someone to present me ith a lovely meal as a surprise but I don't think that is going to happen, Oh Well! have a great weekend everyone.

Wednesday, 22 August 2012

Proud Grandad

Here is Jude sat on his Grandads Landrover, he really loved it and his Grandad was so proud of him, what happens when you become Grandparents? we have become so wrapped up in this little chap he gives us so much pleasure and he is becoming a real little character, we are babysitting tomorrow, can't wait.


Saturday, 18 August 2012

CJP for June finished block

I have just finished this block, I am a litte behind and stll have July,August to complete. I am pleased
with this one .
It has been very hot here today I think we are getting some weather coming over from the continent, I am sat in the garden typing this and it is lovely the honeysuckle smells divine and the roses are looking much better, the heavy rain we had rotted all the first flowers but now the second flowers are beautiful.

I am finally finding a bit more time to blog it always gets more difficult through the summer.



Friday, 17 August 2012

Finished

Yay!!! just finished another ripple blanket, this one is for Kate she loves to cuddle under mine when she is here so I thought I would do one for her house, I love making things for my kids it's so rewarding.


Lovely Quilts, my favourite is the Teatime one, and I love the little crazy patch purses.




Do you remember that boring brown shelf I bought at the charity Shop for £5 well here it is painted and wallpapered, I am really pleased with it and I have started to put my perfume bottles on the shelves, I need to collect some more.
Kathleen and I went to to NEC yesterday to the quilt show, it was really good we had a smashing day, we both bought fabric and Kaffe Fasset books his books are so lovely, I bought the Provence one and the french buildings are so lovely and the quilts look lovely draped over them, It was a tiring day but very enjoyable, there was an Australian booth there Faeries in my Garden and the lady knew Jenny of Elefantz, the world is definitely getting smaller.


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