Sunday 19 January 2020

Small victories

Beautiful sunset tonight. I managed to get out and do a small 0.6 mile jogette. No biggie? well yes a huge biggie. Menopause anxiety is kicking my backside every which way just now. Yup work can be stressful,  but i have handled stress before. This is different, the complete and utter rollercoaster of hormones swishing around is utterly brutal, and it comes on out of the blue. So what to do? take solace in the small victories. So a bijoux jogette while the sun goes down is to me like climbing Everest.
My Scoobs took me up to Dollar Castle this morning,  a small victory here too. I have suffered from vertigo ever since i had labyrithinthitis about 12 years ago. So getting up and out onto the roof parapet was a major achievement. So I will just keep on surfing the hormonal surf until it all evens out. Fingers crossed that is soon, Im getting flipping fed up of this!


2020 FAL

I love a linky party! but the FAL has now gone completely Instagram .... I can totally understand why. It must have been a huge amount of work. I almost missed the deadline  for the Q1 post but I managed to squeek in. So what have we got?
No 1 - Liberty Lone star for Alice Caroline SOS
No 2 Jumbo Paperclip
No 3 - Broken Paperclip
No 4 Liberty for Alice Caroline SOS, still to be decided!
No 5 Diamond Primrose
No 6 Books and quilts and gin
No 7 Small diamond primrose
No 8 Bali pop scrappy trip
No 9 - My small  world
No 10 - Happiness mini quilt
No 11 - Tub in bear linen
No 12 - Pop open pouch
No 13 - Clearly carry all pouch
No 14 - OMCOC
No 15 - Cork wide open pouch
No 16 - Sew portable travel set



Sunday 5 January 2020

Cogs and thistles

No 4 on my Q4 FAL list was this little beauty started at a lovely class with Jenny Haynes - Pappersaxsten - Cogs and Thistles, such a cute little quilt and so many happy memories of a lovely weekend at the class with her.

Book nerd quilt

A booknerd quilt! how appropriate for a librarian! this was finish no 5 from my Q4 proposal list I have been picking away at this all  year mostly at the Killearn sewing days, lovely pattern and great to use up nice big prints too.
 Bit of a Frankenstein backing but its still pretty, can you see the elephants?












Vintage Home

I have been making this quilt for a while, well by my standards anyway! I started it at the Gartmore retreat in January 2019, it got left for a while then picked up and then i realised i just needed one final push! and so it went, number 1 in my Q4 list is now done and dusted! ready to be donated to my chums Sheenas quilt drive for the charity she works for - Link living.



I was so delighted with the backing i think I have had this for well over a year, i got it at the FOQ probably in 2018 specifically for this quilt. Writing 2018 seems really weird!







Showing off my jugs !!