A whole lotta love!

Bag love

I was reading blogs the other day (as you do) and saw the most gorgeous bag on Peg's blog for Linda's bag swap. I left a comment saying how beautiful I thought it was and Peg wrote back saying "Thanks" and "are you doing this swap?"

So I said "Darn! That means that gorgeous bag is not for me!"

"Not this time" She says :-(

Well Peg is a big tease, because, look what I got in the mail today!!!!!! I just smiled when I saw Peg's name on the envelope!


Yup!!!! It's mine!



Oh my! All mine. It really is gorgeous. I just love the colours (and the spots) and the roses!!! And the stitchery is so delicate....



And all the lovely gifties too. Peg, thank you so much. You have cheered me up no end! I am in bag love!



Quiltie love too!

I'm being spoilt rotten here. Kate, who's work I admire and have been very fortunate to have received in the past sent me a 'thinking of you' quiltie. And it's so lovely. I have already put it up in my sewing room to admire.



Thank you Kate (very much!)


Chocolate Love

My friend came over to chat with her little boy. So I set our two up with some cupcakes to ice and just let them get on with it...

Here's mine, taking a breather from all that sugar. You'd think butter wouldn't melt in his mouth!



You'd be wrong LOL

Giving and receiving

I was deligted to recieve a squishy in the post today from Anne. Turns out Anne is my Booty swap partner and she made me this beautiful quilt.



I hung it up before I realised I needed to take a photo LOL. It's wonderful: beautifully quilted, gorgeous colours and plaids and of course hearts! Thank you Anne.

Thanks also to The Quilting Pirate, who is the host of the Miniature Booty Swap and also a wonderful bloggy friend.
Toni knew I had been yearning for the rulers Bonnie Hunter suggests for her mystery quilts and she was kind enough to buy them for me.



Yesterday they arrived with a beautiful block made by Toni in wonderful colours (and African Amafu fabric) as well as some Civil War fabrics. Toni is solely responsible for my small collection of Civil War fabrics. Thanks Toni!!


I have finished my bag for Linda's bag swap...

And the inside...

I'll mail that out asap and then I can concentrate on my slightly (er um!) late Booty quilt.

DH drew the winners for the African scraps. They are Siobahn a.k.a Yankee Quilter and Julie
Please send me your snail mail addresses and I'll pop them in the mail asap.

Progress report

After another tidy up where the house is still nowhere near where it needs to be, I rewarded myself with some sewing... not much sewing, BUT I have almost finished my bag for Linda's bag swap and I have worked on my Booty swap as well as making my blocks for Aryn's quilt organised by Alison for Kid’s Quilts...


These were mailed this afternoon.

Here are some sneak peaks of the swap stuff...
Mmm... a bag perhaps? We'll see...



And what's this? It's awfully small....



Now it's packing and more cleaning and tidying in preparation for a very mini-break to London tomorrow where I will be delivering this...



Photos taken on our first sunny day in a looooong time!



With a label!


Oh, and here's the dratted trophy LOL.




And the article in the village paper...



3 of us (as in my family) made it in to the photo in the paper, except for DS1 who was hiding under a table!!! That boy is going to be the gray hairs of me!!!

I am not quite sure what to do with it. I have never won a trophy before and would quite frankly like to return it before I lose it LOL, but I guess it will have to sit around here and collect dust until next year!!

Here's the painting...


It's a bit blurry, but I struggled to get a shot as it has a plastic mount cover...
I did it while at college. It's titled: 'My dad was an electrical man'. Quite sentimental to me. Everything about my Dad tugs at my heart. We lost him when I was 12. Anyway I'm sure he would've been proud.(not of my dust though LOL)

When I come back I am going to clear out my sewing space and give some bits away so I hope there will be lots of homes out there... in fact I found ANOTHER bag of assorted African fabric scraps which I would love to giveaway.



There are scraps of all sorts of sizes and qualities and quite a lot so perhaps I should divide them into 2 bags... just leave a comment if you would like them and I'll draw 2 names on the 30th of August.