Not much quilting...

Well there hasn't been a huge amount of sewing going on here. We had sad news with the death of my grandad last week. It was really sad but he was 92 and at 92 you have had a pretty good go at life and he was the kind of person who had had a "Bloody good go" - excuse please but that's the way he would have said it!! So there were tears but plenty of laughs. He was a father of seven so there are plenty of us to remember.

So I haven't been in much of a mood to whizz away, instead I have sat with a bit of hand embroidery.

Today I promised a scone for afternoon tea. So mixed them up and got them in the oven in time for school run collection. So with a choice of jams and hot tea we had  lovely eats.

I used No2  Ds butterfly shaped cutter but maybe scones aren't the best thing to show the shapes off. Bit rustic, but that didn't affect the taste. We had eat a few each just to check ;-)

Not the best week.

So just, some pics..

In awe now...

I posted my civil war blocks on the flickr site and was having a browse at all the gorgeous variations when I found this CLICK ON THIS!!
It is mesmerising and incredibly clever. I take my hat off and eat it and then throw away my sewing box.

Civil War weekly update

Not quite a weekly update considering there are 3 weeks worth of blocks here, but plodding along non-the-less...

Block 4

Block 5

Block 6

Whole day sewing away yesterday...

Well yesterday I spent the whole day sewing away. It was lovely. It was a day when the girls seemed happy enough, I popped out to make them some lunch and stuff but they didn't seem to bother that I was disappearing again and the whirr of the machine.
I was trying to get together my Block of the month final blocks...

It started Feb 2010 and the last block appeared last week. I actually had the last three blocks to do, so that was my mission yesterday. The fabric was a The Quilt Room, Surrey  jelly roll from a few years ago and is pretty And grey really. I like it, but I need something around it and I haven't decided that yet. I quilted it in 2 halves and joined them, so now it's waiting for it's border. I do have a peely wally green which sits nicely around the edge but I may like a soft grey too... might hang off until the grey wallpaper is up and then decide. 

I have also been finishing off another block of the month. 

The date you will see is 2009 :-/

I did embroider all the pieces and sew them together with the log cabin border in that year (!) but I could not make my mind up re-the border. So it just sat and sat. Then last week I moved it as I was tidying up and lay it on a something cream and I thought... oh! So within a few hours I had attached strips of cream, then the log colours and bound it in the black and started embroidering. I do love Lynette Andersons work. 

...and as usual...  in my avoidance to the tidying I browse and click and trawl wonderful blogs, websites , etc and found this fab project..

One can never have enough pin cushions - or pins for that matter. They're like socks, I buy them and use them and then suddenly the only ones left in the pincushion are the bent ones!!