Queens birthday weekend baking

As it was a long weekend here in New Zealand my parents drove down to stay for a few days. My youngest son is taking an interest in cooking and loves the shortbread my dad makes. So he asked for a lesson in shortbread making much to his grandparents delight. And it was good

My busy week

I have spent the last couple of days doing a class with Cathy Doughty of Material Obsession what a fun few days I've had. The first 2 days were the quilt Soul searching which is a real exercise in colour. The yesterday I did just one block of using templates a very accurate way of cutting blocks. Also have a look at Cathy's blog materialobsession.typepad.com
I hope the link works I don't know how to copy and paste on an ipad

Home now

Well I've arrived home safe and sound came home to a welcome home sign and a lot of cleaning which will keep me quiet for a while. I couldn't resist this photo of Freddi cuddled up in some batting

Paducah

Time has gone by so fast and this is our last day in Paducah. It's been an amazing time so many wonderful things to tempt us to buy. Of course I have tried to be careful as its very expensive to post home which so far I have managed to avoid. Last night we had an evening with Ricky Timms it was a great experience he is quite funny.

LA sewing

Having a good time in Los Angeles with Marilyn yaresterday we went to the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana and heard Laura Hillman talk on her experiences as a Schindlers List survivor. What an amazing story. I was also lucky enough to meet Marilyn's lovely friends Linda and Robin.
Today we've been to The Farmers market in long Beach had a drive around and made these cute little bags.
I'm off to Paducah tomorrow

Back again

I was having problems accessing blogger on my laptop bit now have a lovely new iPad and phone so should have no problems.
Last year I'd also lost the quilting mojo so didn't make many quilts I have made up for that though this year.
I finished this quilt last week for my son Michael and his partner when he complained he was cold. What else does a mother do

Raffle Quilt

My camera went missing a while ago had some friends over and somehow tidied it away into the tidy hole. But then it turned up in the drawer of the coffee table now I did look there but it must have been a man look. Anyway its here again had a few photos on it to catch you all up on so I am going to start with what I took last week.

I donated this quilt for Kylie to raffle fundraising for guide jamboree she is a leader and its in January in Hamilton (I think)

So she raised $47 luckily the lady who won was delighted but I did say to her I think it would have been cheaper for me to donate $50 next time. It certainly didn't cover the cost of the quilt.