Well May has been quite a busy month! I git back to my regular weekday sewing group so got cracking with Blossom Jane again now on 6th row out of 13 almost half way through center square I hope to get a cracking on with this when we are away in June.
Suzanne Campion and Lisa from Morris textiles are doing another transatlantic quilt so here is my liberty block for them.
We had a house guest ❤️❤️ sweet Rocky came to stay for a week
I am slowly playing catch up with my stitch doodles embroidery I was very hesitant to start this but am now well in the swing of it, almost ready to start may now so only a month behind i need to slso carch up with my Carina wheel of the year, remind me next year to only do one wheel! Below is a quilt commissioned by a very dear chum. I never agree to make quilts for anyone else but this chum is an exception, they have a new grandchild called Leo, she wanted it in shades of blue.
She also asked if there was fabric with a lion on it .... Well I couldn't find any lion fabric that wasn't too cartoony or babyish, she wants this o be a for ever quilt.
Only one option for it! Yup another big cat but without the flowers in his mane 😊
Panda markers are essential for good organisation!
I won't lie it's been a bit of a white knuckle ride, I refuce the Suze by 50% as it was 40 inches originally the original pattern was also in US letter format so that added to risk of not printing properly but it seems to be coming together OK with a bit of fudging here and there 😉
This is probably where I will get to in May over half way! Hope to finish by 2nd June, let's see 😊
So! this is 59! Years ago I took my birthday off facebook, best thing i ever did. I would get annoyed that people who didnt interact with me all year round would pop in and say happy birthday ... yes I know I shouldnt! But I would far rather folks popped into say hello once or twice a year off their own bat rather than wait for facebook to remind them.
So yes I am a bit of a prickly hedgehog when it comes to birthdays!!!
As evidenced by a card from a good chum!!!! 😂
But folks are good and kind and they send you cards so you should be graceful and accept them, below is from the lovely Jo
this amazing card is from my best mate Jacky, lord does that woman have great taste!
I got 2 cards from her! the mushroom is an in joke!
From my sister 😂The calm lotions are for when i visit mam 😉
And last but very certainly not least from my Scoobs
I walked down to see a chum and talk patchwork! Such a beautiful day, these pictures are from the canal paths.
This is called Jennys park
The sunken gardens with the now empty blossom trees
back home via the canal paths
I pop through the tunnel across to Seabegs woods
Seabegs woods has part of the Antonine wall, a beautiful place
My house is in the very distance here to the left!
Home to Scoobs and a nice tea, he is still working so we will celebrate on friday, fingers crossed the weather will hold up so we can have a meal outside 😊 there was a time when I wasn't sure I would reach 50 so to now be heading towards 60 is a blessing I wont take for granted.
Panda markers are essential for good organisation!
