What am I working on?

Simple answer nothing!!!
This week everything has been outside the home----Docs appointments baby sitting and general home servicing stuff.
All this is so boring so tomorrow will be a sewing day come what may!! and I really do have to finish the pink baby/toddler quilt, after all the baby is nearly a month old already and also I have at least 2 projects in the pipeline which I want to finish asap.

Goodies

I was taken on a trip to one of our local fabric shops by my dear DIL and eldest GD, GD needed a dress pattern for her textile class and I had an IOU to redeem for Xmas and my birthday ( they are very close together) . This was my haul there was so much more I could have got but didn't want to overspend my DIL's bank balance even though she said to go ahead and get as much as I wanted!!!! OOOH the temptation!!!

The bottom piece is a nice big piece of fleece which will be used to back a new TV cuddle quilt for the GDs which I know will be needed next winter as one of the pile on the sofa is getting so close to being relegated to the Basset it has done it's time as a comfort quilt for the girls and will now give comfort to the hound --- see all my quilts have a double life.  

Still quilting

Nothing much to report just a little quilting but lots of gardening as the sun has been shining and the job of getting the veg garden ready will not wait.

Lets retire these!!

My DH retired over 5 years ago and I have just persuaded him to retire some, not almost all you will note but at least some of his office shirts. They are beautiful and soft but are mostly blue so will have to mix them with my son's caste offs witch have a greater mix of colours. They are going into stash at the moment as I don't have a project for them--but I will!! so this

this in a few hours

 

layering

layering the latest baby quilt--decided against borders as this would have made the quilt almost 60" square and even for me that's too big for a baby quilt so some uncomplicated quilting and a generous binding and that will be a finish and then I'll post a picture.
This picture is the finished blocks for my take on Bonnie Hunter's Wonky Stars -- I used 3 1/2 " squares and made the points from 2 1/2"squares so cleared a little space in both those boxes I think I will sash with 2 1/2" neutral and scrappy corner stones and then think about a border!

Sorry thought I had a picture of the finished number (20) but this give a good idea of the blocks.

Finished.

What you might ask is finally finished --- My Scrappy trip made to Bonnie Hunter's instructions. This quilt is 122" x 98" and has been made to fit our super king size Victorian bed reaching to the floor at the sides. I was going to quilt it on my Jamone 6600 as I wanted straight lines to emphasise the pattern then I realised how was I going to manage with my wonky shoulder so opened the piggy bank and had it beautifully long armed quilted by the lovely Emma at Quilter's Quarters, and now it's back home and finally on the bed.

It looks great as our room is very neutral and this is a happy splash of colour and contains many fabrics from past projects which bring back such happy memories

Sunshine--Yeh!!

Today sunshine all day and that means a massive increase in my creativity, so I managed to finish all the blocks for the next baby quilt -- I think it will come out about 48" square so will last past babyhood-- I really like to make them about this size if I can, pics when it's all together have to crack on the baby is due in a couple of weeks or so.
A picture of a quilt I finished last week for a friend, she had made the centre and the inner border and then her arthritis got the better of her and she needed it as a comfort gift for her sister.

Gave it a blue binding and a bit of free motion quilting and it's ready to be gifted and my friend has been relieved of the worry of trying to finish and cope with the pain in her hands and shoulders at the same time.

back on track

I have been very slow both in quilting and blogging in the past few weeks, the dreadful storms and flooding (thankfully we were nor flooded) seem to have stopped me dead in my tracks so nothing to report---but am now up and running and will have some pics and news in the next few days!