Silk quilt

I've been rounding up a lot of pictures and came across a load which document the making of the silk quilt

 

Next finish for FAL2016 Q3 sisters 10

Next up from my list for Q3 is this lovely! One of the quilt groups I go to the Muckhart quilters decided to make the Sisters 10 quilt from the Gen X blog.  I had a batik fat eigth pack from my trip to America last year I thought this would be be an ideal use for it. I love the setting, I found the perfect batik for the background at the FOQ last year.  Here it is all bound and quilted and ready to go to siblings together.   

                                         

Lone star, ticked off FAL2016 Q3 list

 First tick from My Q3 list!!   I have wanted to make a lone star quilt for as long as I can remember. I have tried and failed miserably several times. When I saw the fab Jo Avery from Mybearpaw craft     was doing a class on her lone star quilt I knew this was my chance. I really needed a colour boost at that time too so settled on some of my precious Kaffe Fassett fabrics for the star. Off I toddled and we got started! Loving it!

                               

                                                     

         

                        All it needed was quilted and bound!  I wanted to give it to Siblings together and knew the lovely Nicky was picking up quilts from the Stitch gathering for them so I got a wiggle on and hey presto!

Pixie baskets

I've been getting a bit obsessed by making these pixie baskets by fabric mutt. How cute is the bunny fabric?  also more lacy zip pouches. Sometimes small is good!

FOQ

So buy much at this years festivsl of quilts then?? Above was just day one 😊😊😊

Above was the final haul, Whoah yes baby I went for it!

Below is mini Bud fondling the goods ...

Show and tell back at the hotel 😊😊😊

Best tee shirt?

Slight drama at airport when I lost my drivers licence .... They let me travel on my cineworld unlimited card ! I kid ye not!

Till next year 😊😊😊

Clangers

 

 I love the rural, the SWI, formerly known as the SWRI .... And in the name change there lies a big long tale which I won't go into now. It's always the rural to me 😊.

There are always lots of competitions throughout the year and I always try to pitch in with some sewing efforts if I can. They usually have a theme and this years one was "look to the future" we really scratched our heads about this but came up with a retro space agey theme. Evelyn made a fabulous Clangers set. 

Here is my effort a space age retro sew together bag!

 

Amsterdam

AhhHhhh Amsterdam, sigh, it seems so long ago yet it was less than a week ago!

We seemed to spend a lot of time doing this .....

But oh my goodness Amsterdam really does know how to do beer!

My husband and I couldn't get a whole fortnight off together because he is using up most of his holidays trekking across Iceland, as you do ... So I took a fortnight off and we had a long weekend in the middle. We needed to keep costs down as he is spending a small fortune on the Iceland trip! So we decided on a long weekend in Amsterdam.

I wasn't to bothered about anything other than getting to this shop!

I spent a small fortune in there, but that's for another blog post 😊

Whoops there's another beer, where did that come from?

On a more serious note, it was very poignant to see the auschwitz memorial, especially with the rise of anti semitism in these uncertain times.

We went to the Dutch resistance museum which was an amazing and sobering visit. There was one tale of a woman who was jailed for not handing over money to the Germans, she was given the task of darning the soldiers socks, she darned the tops shut. That takes some amount of courage and sheer thrawness to do that.

Amsterdam was busy and beautiful, I wouldn't say it's my favourite European city but I felt very comfortable here.

Another favourite visit was the Van Loon museum, it was a restored merchants house, it had a beautiful garden and coach house.

I spotted this shoe shop display, I do love a good display.

Tatty bye for now Amsterdam I hope to come back and visit soon!