Good Morning!!

Happy Sunday everyone!  I've just looked at the weather forecast above and it says sunshine and 12c.....I sure hope so, it's cold and miserable at the moment.

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I have a few finishes I can show you, one is a quilt I just took some squares from a layer cake (Oasis by 3 sisters) cut some into 5 inch squares and joined them into 4 patch, also added some other charm squares I had lying about to make a pretty scrappy quilt.

I tried a different method of quilting, I traced the patterns on to greasproof paper (parchment paper, baking paper) and then quilted through it, following the lines (not so well sometimes!)  I am happy how it turned out, it isn't a quicker way of doing it.......there are a lot of bits of paper to pick out!!   It is an easy way of doing it if you aren't so good at FMQ, which I am not.

I think the quilt took me around a day to piece and the quilting took me a week!   

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I needed a cover for the camper, the grill has a glass top covering and it has got scratched (previous owners not me!)  I didn't want it to get any more scratches so a cover of some sort was needed.  I used a panel I won  from Sandi at Legacy of Stitches

 I just cut up the panel and made this

Sorry the pictures are a bit dull, blame the weather, hopefully summer will arrive soon.

Will you stop putting that camera in my face!

Hugs from me and Sam xxxxx

A friend needs our help.....

This little girl  needs our help, it's easier if I just post the link to my friend Diane's blog and you can read it for yourself.

A van for Hallie 

 Please help if you can, 

Thank you in anticipation.

Hugs Linda xxx

Google Reader...

Not sure how I missed this but just in case other people don't know, Google Reader is finishing 1st July 2013, so if you use Google Reader now may be a good time to find something else.... like I am going to have to do.....

And because I can't do a post without a picture here is one of the newest addition to our family.  Meet Noah, born at 10.00 pm last night (13.03.13) 7lb 12 oz... my new Great Nephew.

Hugs Linda 

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Practise or Practice, I'm never sure.....

Ha.... bet you thought I meant quilting!    No... we have been away for a few days getting use to our new camper, checking everything out, we even managed to get the TV to work (after nearly a day trying to find Astra  satellite!!!)

Just look at that sunshine, I had almost forgotten what it looked like.  Getting organised for our big trip now, so excited can hardly wait.  Sam goes to vets next week for his rabies injections, we have to wait three weeks then they will give him his own passport so he can travel with us.  He hurt himself a couple of weeks ago, not sure what he did, (probably fell off the wood pile chasing a mouse)  but he couldn't walk on his back legs, vets checked him out thoroughly (even checked his lymph nodes were okay to make sure the cancer hadn't returned, which was my main worry)  He had inflammatory injection and tablets and is getting better every day, he still has problems jumping up the steps, but is getting there.  I have told him he has to be 100% fit or they won't let him into UK......a bit of bribery can do wonders :-).

On the sewing front, I have finished two quilts and a wall hanging, but two are surprise gifts and one I want the recipient to see it first, so can't show you yet, here is a sneaky peek

I can show you a new floor cushion for Sam though... this is his new bed in the camper

I had just enough squares left from my star quilt and just used plain grey for the back, it's a really soft cushion so he loves it.

Happy days!

Hugs Linda and Sam 

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I'm on a roll.......

I don't know what is happening to me this month but I seem to in the mood for finishing things ;-)

Here is another that has been waiting to be quilted for ages, and I finally finished it.  I can't get the colours true to life, the solid is a very creamy yellow, and this has been done for so long I have forgotten what the jelly roll was....sorry.

I used a stencil to quilt all the solid squares, a bit wobbly in places!!  The colour is awful it's much nicer than it looks in the picture!

and one of Sam to finish.....

....pretending to be camera shy.......yeah right.

Have a good day!

Hugs Linda xx

A Finish!

At last I have finished Sam's quilt, he is always pinching mine so now he has one of his own (no doubt we will be swapping from time to time ...)

I used all scraps for this, it felt so good emptying that scrap box, trouble is, I still have loads left!

Also saw this scarf pattern on Moda Bake Shop... here 

My lovely friend in Canada sent me this charm pack for my birthday last year, it's Gypsy Rose by Fig Tree , it's so pretty, and I just love it.

Hugs xxx

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Yes... I know I am late, but better late than never.

I have decided this year I am going to try and be more frugal, so to start I have made something new out of something old.

The Front......

The back.....

Peach fabric for the lining......

REALLY posh label.....

Hand applique and tiny seed beads on the tree branches.......

In a previous life this was two jackets!   They have been sat in my wardrobe since I finished work, so not only have I got a new bag, but I am also clearing out my wardrobe.... result.

Hugs Linda 

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