Still Here

Life has been crazy here managed to make a few quilts which I will have to photograph and add to blogger.

I've had a couple of busy days helping my friend Sue who is  now one of the new co-ordinators of fabric-a-brac setting up tables then taking them down again today. That is one thing I do notice getting older is I seem to have lost strength in my arms everything was so heavy. And I was so moany about it. Apart from that it was such a fun day its interesting seeing what people bought and what they were wearing there are so many talented people about.

Anyway back to my quilts these 2 quilts I have donated to our local hospital they are having another quilt sale to raise funds for the childrens ward in May

I will have to get my quilt stands (kids) both home at the same time so i can take photos of what else i have been up to

 

Wonderful news

We have had excitment at our place Michael my no 2 son is now engaged to Lana and getting married in January 2014. We are thrilled Lana is such a lovely girl I could not have picked better.
I am very lucky my 3 sons have the loveliest girlfriend/ partners (not too sure what they call themselves).  They are getting married in Vietnam so now to save hard for a trip over there. It has meant a couple of changes to our plans this year.  Bob's parents are in their 90's and still going strong so he making his yearly trip the Uk by himself once again I was going to go with him. The most annoying thing was I had lots of places I wanted to visit to see what I could find for our family tree but I am sure they will be there next year and I might be more organised in what I am looking for.

Easy Street update

I'm on a roll. I took these photos a couple of weeks ago just hadn't taken the thingy out of the camera to update the blog.

Well the quilt top is finished just need to get it quilted. The photos are taken before I added the border if I had realised how big this quilt was ( the measurements were there my fault) I wouldn't have needed to put a border on it. But as I'd bought the fabric especially I had to use it. The lumpy bit on the bottom right hand corner is tabby the cat not happy being disturbed during her all day except mealtimes nap

A little bit of shopping

 

Yesterday I went up to Palmerston North to check out what was on offer at the Craft Show.

As you can see I helped out the economy. I spent a lot more than I intended but am very pleased with what I did buy

10 fat quarters for a little boys I spy quilt my hubby has asked me to make for one of his clients. Hopefully I won't need any more fabric for this quilt

A few more fat quarters this time batiks that are going into a wedding quilt for a friend of my daughters the wedding is in March so I will be getting on with that this week

This is exciting a small iron and stand that I can take to classes and retreats I now need to look for a small ironing board. I know these are going to be well used.

And some cat fabric that I am going to cut up for a one block wonder kaleidoscope quilt, most of the ladies in my Monday Muncher quilting group are making one of these which we are starting this monday. They don't know mine is cut up and all the blocks are sewn as there are only 2 rulers for about 8 of us I thought it might be sensible to get started so others can cut theirs out on Monday. It didn't take too long as I made my blocks a bit bigger than the last time I made one and the cats look great.

I also bought a template for the arcs of a wedding ring quilt I have always wanted to make one of these interesting it was $28.00 at the show and when I was looking on line for photos of the quilt I came acoss the same ruler for $14.99 in Australia. I do feel a bit cheated.

 

But what  a great day now I am thinking about going to the show in Hamilton later in the year.

Cat quilt update

So my friends cat thought a cat quilt must have meant it was for him. I don't know the name of this cat as there are 3 cats very similar living with the quilt owner. She would be horrified to read this lucky she doesn't know I have a blog,

But he does look very cute

Another finished quilt

I have been sorting out the photo folders on my computer and came across a few quilts I made in 2012 that I didnt show on my blog so here is my favourite. Its from the book Promise Of Joy by Cathy Doherty one of my favourite books. I did enjoy making it I used quite a few Kaffe Fassett fabics and they are always a pleasure to work with

January update

I managed to finish this quilt last week and give it to the birthday girl. She is a cat lover and was thrilled with it. I was very pleased to actually get the quilt finished and quilted as I had left it till after xmas to really get started as I was procrastionating about how to do the faces and as it turned out they were not so bad