I won!

The lovely Mrs Moen did a free pattern giveaway and I won. I haven't done any applique since the kids were little and that was just some simple shapes on t shirts. I'll hopefully get on to dig out some scraps to transform after my upcoming holidays.

Thank you Nina LIse!

7 truths about myself

1. My middle name is Jane, it was the first name I was given but i was renamed and it became my middle name when i was adopted
2. I love the taste of beer or wine
3. I am very tidy, I like to know where things are but it doesn't have to be clean
4. I love the texture of things, smooth, knobbly
5. I love tidy piles of things and jars/tins of stuff together
6. I love warm weather
7. I was the fat kid at school, the one that got picked last for sports teams. I like to think I'm over it, but sometimes I realise I'm not.

Little flower

The boredom of lying n bed has got to me so I grabbed some spare squares of material and got creating

Need to get a button to finish off but they are all the way downstairs

Been laid up

... so no sewing, no anything done. I opened the curtains and pulled the cd tower on top of myself. Needless to say I have had a huge headache and then a huge neck ache. Today I'm just on to a dull ache everywhere.

Log cabins - first lot of machine quilting

I've done the basics just deciding what else to do

I think some hand quilting is order as I need some sewing to take away with me in a couple of weeks. I'm thinking of mirroring the flowers on the backing fabric in pink. The flower is a little small for the bare squares so I'll have to scael it up to make a template.

The edging is a straight copy from Mrs Moen's fat border that she did on her beautiful heart quilt. The back of this quilt is an antique cream table cloth so I want it to show on the front. I marked its exact centre with marking stitches so the top should match the back (crosses fingers but it looks ok up till now)

I'll post back pics tomorrow.

Decided on the pattern

I did a machine patchwork workshop back in the 80's (done by the first infant teacher two of my daughters had). I have found the sheet so am going to do the 12" blocks off it and call DD's quilt Mrs B's Quilt as a memory of her.

She is now teaching in Uganda. She was the person who further inspired a love of reading in DD which led to her doing a Eng Lit degree. Mrs B's quilt seems fitting. She can tell her grandkids all about why it was made and who inspired it.

First snowdrops of spring

So beautiful against all the deadness and defrosting snow.

Well the bag is finished and the material dug out for the blocks for DD quilt