There's Snow Business...

It's been quite chilly here

the last few days...

Last night I found Abby keeping herself

warm with my eldest son's old soft toy

that he called 'Mau'.

That toy went everywhere when he was a toddler

(Thailand, Germany, South Africa...),

now of course, it's abandoned,

but at least it has a new friend :o)

 Perhaps it's time for a kitten??? 

- Perhaps not!!

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It's been great working on the scalloped border

because it has kept me nice and warm

while watching telly in the evenings.

 It's all done now, but no chance of a photo outside

just at the moment as we have a little snow:

It's still snowing now

so hopefully it will be enough for the boys

to play in with their friends... 

Me? I'll be staying inside!

Scallops!

I had pretty much talked myself out of scalloping the edges

of my rose hexagon quilt. I thought I'd lose some of the gorgeous quilting

that Chris had done... and I was thinking just to round the corners off,

but then last night I took a few plates from the kitchen and a pencil

and just decided to go for it....

It was trickier than I thought and I'm not sure 

it's been done 'correctly', but hopefully it will look ok

when the binding is on....

It was nice to find this embroidered block right next to the first side I cut -

it sort of spurred me on to finish this quilt

with as much effort as I have already put into it:

There was one hairy moment when I, in an attempt, to be brave,

told myself to 'just go for it!'.

Luckily I didn't at that point as the edges were folded over

and I would have had a big gap between scallops!!!

Of course I cut too much binding

and I was reminded how much I detest making bias binding!!

Both the cutting of it and the joining of it is the worst part!

I started to feel a bit ill as I was ironing the binding.

So I sat down and just pushed through because the studio

fire was on, the children were in bed and I didn't think 

I'd get a chance again to get this done.

I 'quickly' sewed the binding on
a king size scallop-edged quilt :)

Then I came into the house and was rather ill.

Yes, a tummy bug had hit our house!

Myself and the two boys were up ALL night

with sickness :(

But this will pass, the binding is on

and I can almost knock a quilt off my UFO list!