Filling in time ....

I can't go anywhere without taking some quilting, just in case I have some time to fill!  Are you like that?  Well, I'm here in Bath waiting for Poppy to arrive and so I've put a border around my mother hen and two chicks and I'm thinking about how to quilt them.  Think I'm going to use my favourite blanket stitch around the border and two little hearts on the chicks ...

Also thought I had better finish my intermediate quilt I made at Cupcake Cottons last year, as Steph is beginning to ask for items for her exhibition!  I need to finish the hand quilting and bind it then it will be ready to go ...

find hand quilting difficult at home because my cocker spaniel, Archie, loves to come along and sit on whatever I'm sewing !  I don't want my exhibition piece to be covered with dog hairs !!!

So good to be back in class!

It was SO good to go back to Cupcake Cottons this morning!  I really missed not going last week!  Spent a lovely morning with Steph and Sarah sewing and chatting :)

Started my next project which is for a very dear friend of mine ......

I'm going to ask her to name it !

Need to sew!

I needed to sew today!  So to get back into the swing I made a couple of chicks to go with the chicken I pieced a couple of weeks ago and here they are ......

The chicken, if you remember, was a trial piece for a quilt I'm going to make.  The chicks I designed myself and although they are not perfect I am pleased with them.  I don't like to waste anything that I sew so I'm going to turn them into a cushion cover!

Lampshade .....

I can't believe I'm so excited over a lampshade

but I think it's made from the fabulous American Jane Tape Measure fabric by Moda!  I haven't been able to get any of the fabric but I have the lampshade!!!

Exciting ...

it's so exciting to receive fabric in the post!  Thank you Avery Home Store up in Edinburgh for sending me this beautiful fabric ...

and with a free gift too!  Thank you!

Blog Manual?

I'm slowly trying to get to grips with blogging!  I've received a post from Freshly Pieced about linking and grabbing things?  How do I do this?  Anyway, Lee at Freshly Pieced, I love your blog and I haven't got any WIP (work in progress) to show at the moment but I will soon !  Have I linked with you now?

Think I need a good blogging manual !!!

Great British Sewing Bee!

I absolutely love Tuesday nights and the Great British Sewing Bee!  So much so that I've had to buy the book ...

Fantastic show - well done the BBC !