Grandpa's Little Treasures

Happily hand stitching along on these blocks they travel with me everywhere as I hate to sit and have nothing to do. I have been in 2 different hospitals this week having tests and you get a bit of stitching done there I can tell you. At one of the hospitals I became know as the teddy bear lady as I was working on a block with teddy bears on it. So here is my progress to date.

Sampler quilt progress

Well my sampler quilt is coming along as you can see with an extra 3 blocks

Have not decided on size yet but would like it to cover chair that I stitch in so will keep going probably until I run out of selected colours. Stay tuned.

Absolutely Fabulous

Today I attended my local Hidden Creek Community House to participate in a ceramic pendant making class. But of course I did not want to make a pendant I wanted to make oversized quilt buttons. This was soooo..... much fun it was hard to contain myself I was much quieter than normal due to the fact that my mind was a whirl of new possibilities. I had taken some of DD21 stamps ( don't tell her ) to try just to see if they could be use, yep sure can. Here are some of the buttons I made today this is only half, but I was so excited of the possibilties that I forgot to take more photos at the end. Next week we will be glazing and starting on some Christmas ornaments, because guess what we decided to continue each Thursday, YEAH!

On a more serene note in the morning I made DD21 a new Minnie Mouse bookmark as requested and enjoyed one of my climbing roses first blooms.

Spontaneous swap

Sue and I decided to have a mid month swap and Sue would make for me one of the blocks I had admired on her blog. Sooooo... excited it arrived today ( even though I had accidentally peeked at it ) when you get the real thing in your hands it's wonderful. Thanks Sue.

Below is the block I made for Sue.

I have also been doing something new and absolutely fabulous today will post later night as I have to go watch DD21 play netball now. Toorah!

Symmetrical girl that's me.

I had mentioned previously that a new WIP, is a sampler in violets and greens after making a log cabin for my swap partner. Well I had already made one for my sampler because I just fell in love with it, but over the past few days it kept telling me that it could not be the only log cabin in the quilt. So it came to me that it needed to have one in each corner of quilt, so here we now have four.

Then I made two more.....

Why did I never think of that?

Whilst I was making a swap block for my October partner Tanya I became smitten with the colours Tanya had requested, violets and greens. The block requested was the log cabin which I had not made in years and as it grew so did my liking for it. When finished my girls thought it was beautiful and asked why I had not made a quilt in these colours, as purples and greens are my favourite colours. I was that smitten I had already made a matching one for myself. So I now have a another WIP, to make my first ever sampler quilt with these colours. I am going to use favourite blocks from Elm Creek Quilters books and elsewhere. 

Thanks Tanya for the inspiration!

Here is Tanya's block to me.... just beautiful and I have already decided it is going to be the matching cushion to my quilt.

Here is the block I made for Tanya

Where did the week go?

I can not believe that it has been a week since I last wrote, won't let that happen again. We had a few decent days so I have been trying to catch up on my vegie plot, finishing a new flannel quilt for DD13 to take to camp next week and some block swaps.

Here is the lastest quilt "striptease". I had put it into the dryer.... yes that's right the dryer so that it goes all raggety. After a couple of hours I thought it must be finished by now I opened the dryer.... it's gone. How can it possibly open the door and hop out mmmm..... maybe another seniors moment where did I put it? No, somebody has taken it who could that be? Did not have to go far to find it's new owner already giving it a test run.

About 2 months ago at about 3am whilst I was pondering my bedroom ceiling I started thinking about how to keep the snails out of my strawberries this year one thing led to another and I had this idea of a self watering strawberry tower constructed out of bibs and bobs such as below. Well I have finally built it, now I just have to see if it works, stay tuned. Check out In the garden page for end result.