April furtle! (a bit late ...)

 im late!!!! OMG May just crept up on me .... why is it may? the weather feels like January I think. So I do hope I am still allowed to link up!

So April??? well a lot of it was spent on the Garden Trellis quilt in liberty Capel. I so loved making this, a great pattern from Hat Creek quilts and although I still seem to have a LOT of liberty left it did make a dent in my stash!

I fretted a bit about the borders. It should have just finished at the indigo border but I decided I wanted to use up the mustard capel so added on another border in it. I think it works, anyhoo, I like it and that's the main thing! I just need to parcel it off to Aunty Cath (Cumbrian longarmer) and let her do her magic on it!

I have made slow but steady progress on the Blossom Jane blocks, I am now on row D. Sometimes I totally nail the contrast sometimes I dont. But I still love the outcome whatever and its the overall whole which is the main thing.

I am also loving making the temperature monthly squares. I have finished April now. The idea is to have a square (page) for each month and also have another page with a mandala which represents each month. 

some more random Blossom Jane blocks!

Mini Mini Bud guarding his capel stash!

There was another quarter for the finish along. I am trying to be realistic with this but also move things along.

more random blossom Jane blocks!

Ahhhh the main thing for April was getting my second vaccine!!!! It was quite emotional, this is our route out of the pandemic, for me it means freedom.

I decided to put together my Blossom Jane blocks as we go along, just to save on having a huge amount to do at the end but also to get a sense of how it is going. I am really keen to see how this comes together.

Deck chairs are the way forward. No seriously! Mark had two deck chairs he sometimes used for car camping. He no longer uses them as much so now they sit in my car and used for pop up picnics! our lovely local fabric shop actively welcomes us having a pop up picnic outside their shop! (its in the countryside) so I suspect these will be used quite a lot for this year!

A few more random Blossom Jane blocks!

Last but not least a liberty hearts and kisses block! I was delighted to be asked to make a block for the transatlantic love and kisses quilt organised by Suzanne Campion and Liesa from Morris Textiles. Well I could only do this in capel couldnt I!

I promise to be more up to date next month - promise!

Which Budsmam are you?

 You have to laugh! I went out to get some fuzzy wuzzy fence post pictures but didn’t notice that I had turned the camera the other way round ... in my defence it was very bright! So instead of 8 fence posts I got one fence post and 7 partial budsmams .... my lovely chum Ruth said it was like the game of “which Mrs Slocombe are you?” 

So which one are you 😂😂

FAL 2021 Q2!

 and off we go for Q2 of the 2021 FAL, and yes I know I know its not on blogs any more! But I like to have it here too as well as on IG.

No 1 - Blossom Jane, I’m really keen to get cracking on this, I have made good progress but need to make more!

No 4 - yes I know look blogger jumbled up my pictures and I cant be bothered getting them in the right order! So no 4 is a selvage quilt.

No 9 is a liberty he is tile quilt for the Alice Caroline SOS project.

No 5, well when you have super lovely chums who give you fabrics to use for charity quilts it would be roode not to put them on the FAL list! Im still deciding on this one, but a disappearing 9 or 4 patch might be an idea?

no. 6 in the same vein! the lovely Lou from Flip flop fabric shop sent me a jolly bar and a charm pack for charity quilts, so I am happily sewing these together.

No 8 - I have had a pattern for a hexie sewing case for a while and when i get my cataract surgery done i will be able to see to EPP a bit more, and I cant think of better fabric than liberty for that.

no 10 - well there is a smidge of liberty left over from the garden trellis quilt ... yes just a smidge! so it will become another Alice Caroline SOS quilt

No 3, Michael Powell Cross stitch

No 2 - Garden Trellis quilt, all ready to be longarmed!

and thats it, lets see how Q2 goes!

Blossom Jane row C

 I took a side road and ended up concentrating the garden trellis quilt. Which is fine, but because it was liberty and hence very fussy and needing a smaller needle I could only concentrate on that and nothing else, didn’t want to blunt it with paper piecing. Never mind we are now firmly back on the blossom Jane track!

Omg the one above almost killed me, seriously this one kicked my bahouki 😂😂

Lessons learned on C05 made the one below slightly easier, the emphasis on “slightly” 😂

I adored fussy cutting for this one.

Och they are all int he wrong order  but you get the jist! I will put them all together and add them to there previous rows.

End of an era

 awwwwww look at his little face 😂 end of an era for mini mini Bud, his favrit liberty seller and beneficiary of much of my credit card debt is winding down her liberty selling ..... yup ower beloved Aunty Sarah - Duck egg threads is moving in new directions which is sooper exciting for Sarah but oh so sad for a little felted puppy 😢

but loooooooook! he got a shout out as her "most favourite customer ever!!!" Well that cheered him up 😂

We first came across Sarah when she so generously sponsored the Stitch Gathering, I kept those packets of beautiful liberty hexies and some folks who *whispers* dont like liberty 😱 just plain weirdos if you ask me!!! but they were kind enough to give them to me which was lovely! so maybe I shouldnt call them weirdos! - sorry ...

anyhoo Sarah was ever such a super person to buy for, she fully engaged with Bud, both mini and mini mini and she even started addressing my liberty deliveries to him!! that caused some stir with the neighbours I can tell you! she also really outdid herself with this ....

his very own VIP liberty lounge for the 2018 FOQ 💗 how amazing is that! and Mr Duck Egg Threads helped with the sign, what a lovely pair!

so end of an era, but we wish you all the very best Sarah with your new endeavours and we will see you virtually in your sewing socials !