Are you receiving me!

Firstly, apologies if in the last few days (3 in fact!) you have expected an email from me or if you have left me a comment. I have diligently emailed replies and merrily sent them off into the World Wide Wastebasket!!! Turns out my yahoo! email was just not sending. I have been so frustrated. Finally after an email to yahoo!, clearing cookies, cache and my inbox it seems to be semi-operational again. I have signed up to google mail too just in case this carries on...

So, in the last few days, the only person who has received something from me has been Birgit...

I made her this fabric postcard to wish her luck for her Quiltfest in Schoenaich, Germany on the 26th of July. The theme for the day is fruit or vegetables. Birgit is a big tease and is concerned that we may not have any fresh vegetables here LOL


The big clearout has unearthed some good stuff :-) So I have upgraded my sewing bag for handquilting to this...


In its previous life it contained skin creams.
So it has been saved from the skip, but will my yahoo email be so lucky??!!!!

Where did this week go?

Well, I know where tonight went...

... I baked and baked! I made DH's nephew a birthday cake for his 18th birthday, hence the one and the eight LOL. Apparently it tastes quite good as there were a few extra bits, but until it's iced, it doesn't look like much. I also made DS1 some dinosaur ginger cookies (these are gluten-free so were a bit tricky as I tried to adapt the original recipe) - tomorrow we'll get the verdict on these :-)

As for the rest of the week. Tuesday saw us taking a trip to find Empress Mills in Colne. I missed the turning and we ended up miles away near Blackburn! Wednesday, I don't know what happened to Wednesday. Thursday, we tried again. We found it. I parked the car and when we got out, I couldn't find my purse/wallet. We counted up between us and taking lunch into account, I only had enough money for a few bits. No photo as I'm sure you all know what thread, felt and pelmet vilene look like LOL. However, the shop was a quilter's paradise, really nice bits and bobs. More thread than I could've imagined, beads, buttons, felt, fabric... No money though until after lunch when I found my bl**dy wallet had fallen down the side of the seat!!!

Friday, I visited Vicky who will be finishing my Linus offering. It's always good to see a fellow quilter and we had a mini show-and-tell. Fun! Then today!! Well I didn't sew a stitch :-( but Anne brightened my day with this little parcel...

... I will be swapping her some butterfly bits for these lovely stars. Thank you Anne, you cheered me up yet again because all day I've been feeling sad that I'm missing Birgit’s Quiltfest in Germany. I hope it went well. I will have to start saving up to go next year!

It's a (free) Flower!

The mystery unveiled....


It's a flower to make up a charity quilt that will be raffled in Germany. My very good friend Birgit hosts a Quiltfest every year at her shop in Schoenaich, Germany. It's next Saturday and I am so sad that I won't get to go this year. One year BC (Before Children) I was able to fly over and helped out by cutting fabric. I put the pins back in the fabric the wrong way and for a long while afterwards Birgit would know which fabric bolts I had cut LOL. I have been to Quiltfest the last 2 years running, but this year I just couldn't afford to go. SO I wish Birgit every success and hope that I can make it next year!

Anyway, back to the flower. This is what the finished charity quilt will look like:


And here's the blurb, with a link to download the pattern from Birgit's site as long as you adhere to the copyright conditions...:

"LET THE FLOWERS BLOOM!"

"It’s a tradition that every year Birgit Klein and Ula Lenz offer a pattern for Quiltfest available as a free download. This year it’s a flower. You can find the pattern here (scroll down to arrow).

The finished size is 20x20 cm (8x8 inch). Not neccessarily that easy to sew, but a lot of fun to make.

The flowers will be collected by Patchcom and we will be putting them together to make a quilt for „Aktion Lebenshilfe“ in Böblingen that will be raffled at their Christmas celebration.


Just a note regarding Copyright:
You may download the Flower pattern for private, non-commercial, use to use as often as you like, but you may not offer the pattern on websites or Blogs without express consent of Patchcom-Birgit Klein. It is not permissable to use or distribute this pattern in any form for commercial purposes."



And, I'd love to see them if you make any :-)