Wordless Weekday

Just For Ria...

...you had an eye for colour and a style that I so admired and knew I could never achieve so when you were selling some quilts, we bought 2 knowing that we had acquired some really special things....

Every quilt was a journey for you and an adventure to the onlooker....


You were so good to my boys, giving each a quilt lie on...

and to learn to crawl on...


You gave me some orphans blocks and scraps which I have put together, but not completed...


I am too sad to do it now.
I shall miss you...

I hope your journey to the next place is kinder to you than the j0urney you have just had. Rest in peace dear Friend.

Filling in the gaps

I picked up my hexagons again as I have not had a chance to get any white fabric and I just can't sit and watch telly without something to stitch. So while my Lilies lie languishing, I am trying to get my rose hexagons to finished top stage. Quite a feat with crutches, but I am sure it must be good physiotherapy to get down and pin hexagon pieces in the gaps :-)



A friend bought a second-hand sofa and was so unhappy with the cushions that I offered to make her some new ones. We bought the fabric together and I made these seven for her. The biggest are approximately 28" square.


After they were made I thought I had better make us some new ones. I have made six and just have 4 to complete, but I am definitely all cushioned out for a while now!!! (Especially as I sewed my own cushions the wrong way up. They are stripy so perhaps there isn't really a right or a wrong way LOL)

I found some photos on the camera....
Here's a snap of the travellers leaving. I just didn't get a chance to get any photos with my quilts this year....



And Nichole and I have done a fun private fabric swap. I received these amazing surprise fabrics...


And these gorgeous spots. I love spots at the moment!



Nichole also included some quilting magazines and some lovely goats milk soap. I have sent her a selection of African fabrics, some magazines and some surprises! Thanks for swapping Nichole!

I was the lucky winner of 2 monthly challenges on one of my online groups and won vouchers for thespiderswebfabricshop. This is what I ordered, plus some black fabric for my African blocks:

I may have gone a bit spot crazy.... :-)

Not much to blog about...

When the little people in your life are not well then that's all that matters. Nothing could ever be more important than just getting you and them over the worst of it. 3 days of raging fever later, I'm tired, emotional and I just want to stop worrying...


...Get well soon little man!

More memories...(and hats too)

... of first bus trips...

Well the next day when DS1 came home, by himself on the bus, DH and I walked up to meet him. (His first time had involved DH driving with the bus to show the driver where we live.) It was a long walk with the crutches, but so worth it to see him get off the bus for my first time and to get a few photos of the event!

The bus driver probably thinks I am nuts LOL.


He raced us back because Grandma was visiting!



Here are the hats I made...
...6 have already found new homes!

Not quite Wordless Wednesday

My Lilies are all stitched together, it went remarkably quickly, but now I just need to get to a quilt shop to buy a few metres of pure white for the setting triangles. Not so easy when I'm still not driving and our LQS is several miles away! But where there's a will...


So I am stitching other stuff likes hats for summer... (picture next time when the sun is shining!)


My Big Boy got the school bus for the first time today!


He likes going on the bus, I guess it's an adventure and it helps us while I can't drive.

Why do the just grow up so darn fast!!!

Archie

My DSIL has a new fur-baby. His name is Archie and he is sooooo cute. He's nice and warm too and quite happy just to snooze next to you while you baste fabric over papers :-)



DSIL has him very colour co-ordinated in her living room too LOL


No, we won't be getting a pet, but it's very tempting!

Wordless Wednesday