Wordy Wednesday

Instead of muttering about my bad blogging,

I will just write a photo-heavy post

to give a small indication of what I have been up to....

I have been making things 

for the Church Christmas fair with a friend

(who is now sick of pom-poms!!)

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I have longarm-quilted an old lady's quilt,

that needed quite a bit of TLC to even get it on the machine...

But it has turned out beautifully.

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Miss Kalico has turned 4!

A cake for home: 

Some lovely gifts from friends...

And a cake for the party! 

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I made a little something for a colleague

who loves Lavender...

The Bullion stitch addiction continues

though not as relentlessly as before ;)

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I have made my ornament for the SSCS15...

This one took 2 evenings 

and was a lot trickier than I imagined,

but hopefully it will be well received.

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And I am working on a few secret projects.

This one involves top levels of investigation

in order to correctly tailor the concept to the recipient.

So I am sewing although nothing for me.

I had grand plans to make Miss-Kalico and I

Halloween costumes, but I ran out of time :(

A friend gave me a Halloween costume 

in a rather tiny size. Although I was flattered,

I preferred to leave certain curves and bulges to people's imagination ;o)

Anyway, I will try and blog more soon xx

Lucky day

I was supposed to be writing my own blog, but just happened to be reading a few when I noticed that today was my lucky day! I have won a book on Jane's Blog. I'm really chuffed as it looks really interesting, it's Gail Lawther's new book 'Stained Glass Stitchery Bowls'.

Other than that we had another busy day so not much sewing. In fact, I felt pretty tired so we put on a DVD and I stuffed lavender sachets (very exciting LOL), but Christmas is coming Ho HO Ho and I want to start now on my gifts and stocking fillers. Here's a trio of sachets for Grandma as a thank you for some card making kit she's kindly given me.


And here's my next African block for my swap with Kate. It will go in the mail tomorrow. I wanted to try a sort of chequerboard effect, a variation of a postage stamp block and that's quite African I should think.