Another Fun Friday

I've been working on the baby quilt I started a while ago. Baby is due next week so I thought I had better get on with it. So today I put the edging on and have begun to quilt it. I decided to machine stitch in straight lines, I'm just not brave enough to free quilt. Anyway it's looking lovely. I'm very pleased with it and hope to finish it this weekend. I used a tutorial from 'Piece and Quilt' Very easy and very pretty. I'll post a picture when I've finished.

How Does My Garden Grow

Although my little garden is a tad overgrown, I like it at the moment. For the first time I have a successfully blooming delphinium! In a few months I'll look back at this post and it will be a reminder of how the garden looked in early July.

Sweet Peas

Sweet peas are probably my favourite garden flower, keep picking and they keep coming and the scent is to die for. I only have space for a few plants but I plant them every year. I love this little lilac vase and keep it just for the sweet peas.

Stained Glass

What a lovely weekend I have just had. I went on a stained glass course in beautiful Derbyshire. Our teacher, Lily was wonderful, so patient and helpful, we all came away with two finished items. The group were great fun and the location was ideal, I would recommend this to anyone. Some of it I found quite difficult, the actual glas cutting wasn't too bad and I thought the design I had made of a loch in Scotland scene would be quite straightforward. However, as all my pieces were curved I had to make them fit together by grozing and nibling with pliers. I found that very hard. I love making things, but the nice thing about this particular course was the company, So if you read my blog ladies, thank you. XX

Yet Another Busy Day

I used what was leftover from the Moda Hunky Dory jelly roll after finishing the quilt top to make a strip bag. Unfortunately the only strips left for the handle were a bit dull so that does spoil it. None the less I am happy with the bag and will probably give it to my classroom help at the end of term

This blog is turning out to be mainly about my sewing escapades or maybe its because I am doing quite a lot of sewing at the moment. I've got another 2 jelly rolls coming from Ebay so more sewing I think.

What a Busy Day

Not only finished and blocked Anna's little shawl but also finished the quilt top I started yesterday. This was going to be for a baby, but I think it's too big. I'm sure I'll find another use for it and in the meantime I can make another cot quilt. Such a chore. This quilt top has gone together really quickly, jelly rolls are wonderful things asa lot of the cutting is already done. If I had made this out of fat quarters it would have taken ages to do all the cutting of the pieces.

Anna's Annis Shawl

Finished this in only a few evenings. It's for Anna for her birthday. The pattern is free on Ravelry.