Hello Everyone, sorry I have been absent but I have been busy with babies, Yes! little Freddy Boothroyd has arrived a lovely brother for Jude, here I am with both of them, I am so proud I could burst and their Grandad is just blown away and we are very pleased and relieved that everything went well and Kate and baby are safe and sound, got to go we are off to do some washing, ironing and cuddling, 'Heaven'

 

We have found a new home, we found a nice bungalow which has an extra room added which will be great for my sewing room, we have had our offer accepted so fingers crossed we are hoping everthing will go through o.k and we can move during spring/summer. The rooms are not a bad size, some of our furniture will not be needed, the kids want some of the spare things and the rest can go to a charity shop, I would like some new stuff and I look forward to shopping for it, the bungalow is just around the corner from Kathleen (cottonreel) even closer than we are now she cannot wait tosee inside,(so nosey).

The weather is foul today and we are expecting snow overnight, I have stared a medallion quilt because Kathleen tells me I have to stretch myself, she is taching me how to do it, Iam doing the centrepeice at the moment, I am so lucky to have my very own teacher.

I don't know about the rest of you but I could really do with some sun on my bones it seems ages since I felt the warmth of the sun, when we were kids everyday seemed warm during the summer and we spent every day outside, I cannot remember when we last had a long hot summer, I remember the summer of 1976 it was so so hot and it went on and on, it was the year Tony and I got together and every day seemed magical and I still feel that way about my lovely man.

I have finished this baby quilt for my next door neighbours baby boy, it was nice to do and Claire loved it.
I have started the Fast Diet this week and today is my fast day, you have to have two fast days in seven on the other days you can eat normally, so far I am fine it  is lunchtime and I am not too hungry, you are allowed 500 calories on your fast day 600 if you are a man. I had 40grams of porridge made with water and 125 grams of Blueberries, I can drink black coffee or tea or just water, tonight I am going to have a chicken stir fry that will complete my 500 calories, tomorrow I will eat normally, this diet is so interesting I bought Dr. Michael Moseley,s book and is such an interesting read, I watched the Horizon programme back in August 2012 and was fascinated it really makes sense. I will give it a try as I would love to lose some weight and feel healthier.

Little Jude is really growing up, he loves books especially the ones with the different textures, there is so much these days to stimulate babies, Kate is due to give birth at the beginning of March, I wonder what Jude will think of a new baby, we don't know what she is having she  wants a surprise this time, I shall just be glad when it's over and they are both safe.

It is a bitterly cold day today, Kathleen and I went shopping for food and we were really glad to get home in the warm, we start back at our sewing class on Thursday, we are looking forward to that, I want to start a new quilt, I have some nice fabrics but I am not quite sure which pattern to do.
I am dreading moving all the stuff from my sewing room when we find a new property, there is so much but it will give me a good opporunity to sort stuff out.

What a week, the weather has been interesting to say the least, the photo is of our garden which looked very pretty, the summerhouse looked like a Swiss chalet, the birds were very busy and we made sure there was lots of seed for them.

The small baby quilt is for our next door neighbour who had a little boy last week, with all the snow I have been able to piece and quilt it this week it's nearly finished.

Good News! for us anyway, we have accepted an offer for our house, we now have to find somewhere to live, it will be nice if we can move ready for the  summer but, there is not a lot of property out there at the moment so we are hoping with the spring coming people will start putting their property on the market, I am dreading having to pack up all our stuff, we have lived here for 16 years and accumulated a lot of "stuff", I think the charity shops will do well in the next few months we want to move into a smaller property so that means getting rid of a lot of our Furniture it is going to be quite hard, on the plus side it will be exciting to look for things to furnish a new house.

Hope you are not suffering too much with the Snow.

Here are my first three Framed Hexagons, I joined the Framed Hexagon Club on designsbyfee, they are really nice to do, you can just go on collecting them until you have enough,  want to make a quilt so I will keep on collecting them for a while, you an also do applique ones, I am hand quiltng a large quilt at the moment so these make a nice change.
It is snowing here today and very cold, a lovely day for sewing.

 

 

Here is my CJQP 2012 completed, I have put them all together to create a wallhanging for our bedroom, I am really happy with the result.

I am looking forward to a change in the weather so that I can get at the garden, ther is a lotg of old dead stuff that needs removing, I have noticed some bulbs poking through and some nice new green shoots on some of the shrubs, it would be nice to get out there but is very wet and cold so I will probably have to wait a little bit longer.