Visitors: welcome and otherwise

Today I had a lovely visit from Lynda whom I met on the BQL list. It's always great to meet up with a fellow quilter and we had a great chat. I dug out loads of UFO's and appreciated a different perspective. I decided that later I would go down to my sewing room again and take some photo's so I could feature some of them as "UFO's of the week". DS2 in bed, DS1 outside with DH, camera in hand I started taking some pics when I heard a sort of squeeking-squawking sound. Let me first explain that this week DH has found 3 baby shrews in the house (Shrews). I know we live in the country, but I've never been that keen that the country lives in the house with us so this has been a bit too much of an 'animal' week for my taste. I moved a briefcase out of the way to see some scuttling in the corner. Well obviously I had to shriek er... I mean call for my hero. DH and DS1 came running to rescue me. Here I can be seen hiding behind Jack while Hubby investigated...

He who is at one with nature here a.k.a. DH gently removed this little thrush and put him out the window. Image is bit blurry as it was taken as quick as humanely possible as the little bird was quite frightened (just a tad more than me LOL)

So it's a bit of a catch 22... I need to keep my sewing room aired, but then I risk having all sorts of things flying or crawling in to make their homes among my stash!


Lynda absolutely loved my blocks from the Scrapbuster swap that I did with Kate and others on the Delphi Forum (these were blocks made up of 16 x 2.5" squares). I also had some blocks made up of 64 x 2.5" squares from the BlockBuddySwaps Postage Stamp Round Robin (PSRR). I have been putting the scrapbuster blocks together in sets of four to be the same size as the PSRRs with the intention of putting them all together to make a picnic blanket (with a waterproof backing) for the family. A lot of the Delphi swappers have been doing quite different things with their blocks, but I just wanted them together as a manic scrappy quilt/blanket.


A few days ago when I was tidying my sewing room, I had a look at the backing fabric again and noticed that it is very narrow and I would either have to piece it together or alternatively make 2 smaller picnic blankets. After talking to Lynda, I think I will just make a big snuggle blanket for the sofa that the whole family can use and if it ends up outside well that's ok(ish) too. So (when I find the time) I will continue to put them all together with a narrow border in a dark, possibly navy, fabric and back it with a dark fabric.