Complete!!!

The baby blue quilt is finally complete and washed and packed away with its lavender bag waiting for my daughter to transport it to London. Just hope it's a baby boy !!! I am in the process of making a girlie top so maybe in a week or two I'll be flat out finishing that and that is it for baby quilts for a while!!

I love the backing for this I bought it (the remains of a bolt) when a local quilt shop closed and it has done 3 backings just  less than half a metre left now so the last of it will have a place in a pieced backing and then what will I use for baby quilts?

binding!!

Trying to finish the binding on the blue baby quilt so I can finish it and get a finish photo but life just keeps interfering.
Yesterday (Sat) the girl next door got married so most of the road outside to see her off to the church , then spent the rest of the day shopping (food) and then planting veg while the weather was good , so today it's binding or bust!!

The Patchwork Greyhounds

Thought that any one who sees this Blog would like to see the patchwork greyhounds -- it really should be sighthounds as we have 2 greyhounds and 2 lurchers.

 

 

On the floor is Poppy greyhound the others are on the

futon behind her

 

from left to right

Poppy AKA Princess Poppy / the boss a blue greyhound , Homer a lurcher and Little Jess a Staffie/

greyhound -- this is my husbands office and they spend a lot of time there when he is working. They

invade my sewing room if he isn't at home , otherwise they follow him around the house

 

On the quilting front the blue baby quilt is being quilted -- straight lines in the ditch!! and I have finished the last 10 scrappy trips blocks now having to be very good and leave them in the box till the baby quilt is finished!!!!

Visit to Empress Mill

Great visit to Empress mill yesterday. We took Libby (GD no.1) who is hoping to eventually take a degree in textiles so good for her to see some of the exhibits and demos. I forgot to take my camera so no photos but the exhibits were wonderful and gave me a few ideas and of course couldn't resist buying a few metres of fabric and of course some of Empress Mill's beautiful thread
We finished our visit to Colne will a fish and chip lunch so a good day was had by all!!

Baby quilt 2

Early stages of baby quilt 2 using leftovers from a blue jelly roll and some precut white on white. The half square triangles are cut using  an easy angle ruler it is really easy and quick no akward  X plus 7/8 to cut and the triangle pairs are ready to feed into the machine for chain piecing ,hoping to have the top finished over the weekend, it has to be finished by the end of may so my daughter can take it back  to London and save me the postage!!

It's finished

The teddy bear quilt is finally finished, washed ,parcelled  up and ready to go to the post office to post to my daughter in London and guess what the post office are on strike today and it has to wait till Wednesday, so even though the quilt was finished last week it won't arrive till Thursdayof this week!
I've managed to fit in another ten blocks of the scrappy trip around the world so now only have ten more to go, however, another baby quilt has to be made ASAP as the little one is due early June and it would be just my luck for it to be early! and I did take the Bank Holiday weekend off --- we took the hounds (2x greyhounds and 2x lurchers ) to a fun dog show to meet lots of other houndies and raise much needed funds for the rescue charity Greyhound Gap. We had a great day out and the weather was superb and our little lurcher Jess came 3rd in the recall competition---the others sauntered down the course smelling the flowers!!!