Happy Easter

Quilty Cat

Sadly, I have NO sewing to report. In fact it's a no-sew zone around here as we have had quite a lot of guests lately as well as things going on including school holidays and getting out into the garden and hospital visits and and and...

However, we are enjoying our little Abby who seems to like my quilts (clever girl LOL)
and we have been so grateful of the sunshine that we have been picnic-ing in for the past few days with our guests! Lets hope the sunshine and the quilt appreciation continues!!!

ps. the cushion was a Christmas gift from my dear friend Vicky (Thanks Vicky!!)

At last another girl in the house!

We now have a little girl in the house, that means it's not 3 against one anymore LOL. Yesterday we collected our little Abysinian cat and we are very happy to have been able to give her a home with us....

She likes sleeping IN our duvet cover. Not on, not under, but in :-)

She is friendly, intelligent and a great addition to our family. We look forward to many happy years together!

Wordless Wednesday

Roses and Daffodils

This photo was taken on a friend's fence on their farm as they have lots of daffodils in bloom at the moment. I wanted to show where I'm up to on squaring up my hexagons, but the wind was not playing along:

I have been known to drive around just for a photo opportunity with a quilt :-)

This curious and very friendly bottle-fed lamb came to investigate...

Here you can see that I am trying to square up my hexagons: Another little lamb on our friend's farm: The boys having an explore: Before visiting our friend's, I tried to photograph the quilt top on our farm. There may have been sun, but there was just so much wind so I had to give up and try elsewhere.... On Mother's Day we went to Harrogate for lunch. As we walked past Betty's I saw this Easter Egg: This photo is from about 2 weeks ago on the same friend's farm: And these lambs (also from about 2 weeks ago) are from 'our farmer' where we live... So it seems, the minute you complain about the rain, the sun shines :-) It's a bit like buying an umbrella. Now I'm going to complain about the wind and buy a windbreaker!!!

Stop the world, I want to get off :-)

Maybe it's a post Bonnie-Hunter-high...

...or maybe it's that Spring showed it's head with baby lambs and daffodils followed by 2 weeks of rain... ...maybe it's quilt tops needing basting and no time to do it...

... maybe it's that there seems to be more going on right now than at any other time of year... Whatever it is, this blog is neglected and my machine sewing is in a similar state! I have started work on my rose hexagon quilt again. I'm trying to square it up as I hope to hand piece a border... handwork is about all I can do while I try to re-re-organise my sewing/laundry room because next week a very special guest is coming to stay!