Saturday 15 February 2014

Manic week


Talk about slow blogging! It's been no blogging for the last couple of weeks. I seem to have been so busy with crochet and patchwork classes, weekend visitors and family commitments. Time to catch my breath, sit down and write a few words down. I'm linking up with "Proud to be a Slow Blogger" over at kettleboiler.

Last weekend by sister-in-law and her husband came to stay. Lovely to catch up, eat some good food and drink some wine.

Yesterday I drove up to Birmingham to buy some fabric for a class next Saturday and to visit my daughter Jenny and her family. I stayed over so that they could go out for a Valentine's day meal and I stayed in to babysit my two lovely grandchildren.

The fabric is for a class next Saturday with Jan Hassard. It promises to be a challenge for me! The title of the class is Cascading Logs. Jan's quilts are full of colour and I had to buy a total of 28 fabrics in 4 colour ways; 3 light greens, 3 dark greens and a feature fabric. This is repeated in pink, mauve and cream/brown colours. I also purchased the fabric for the back and binding of my Hummingbird quilt.
I'll blog about the class and keep the fabrics to show then.

My Medallion quilt is coming on too. I managed to finish these three this afternoon when I got home.




Last Tuesday was my final crochet class and I am really missing it. I started the Nordic Shawl and enjoyed it so much I just kept going. I am so pleased with it.




My very dear friend Sue is having a significant birthday at the beginning of April and I have decided to make her a Blooming flower cushion as part of her present. I found the pattern on Attic24 Lucy's website is an amazing crochet resource and I hope to go up to Skipton sometime to do a course with her. I've chosen pastel tones in sugared almond colours so fingers crossed it turns out well.



I've also started a fun quick knitting project for Isobel who is one in a couple of weeks. My friend Liz sent me a link for a Peppa Pig knitted toy. I'm not sure if Peppa Pig is on TV in the US/Canada. She is a slightly bossy little cartoon pig on children's TV. The pattern was in Womans Weekly and is also available as a free download from their website. You have to sign in to the shop website but the pattern is free.

I'm linking up to Wool on Sundays to show off my shawl!
My husband is cooking a Valentines Day + 1 special dinner so I'm off to enjoy!!!


16 comments:

  1. Love the medallion quilt - you are going to have a few quilts very soon! My quilting is coming on, I have sorted out my preferred method & what to wear on my fingers. Every square is being quilted with a different pattern, and I have cut some templates to suit. Now I need to sew another bag to keep them in...

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    1. Hi Liz, Lovely to hear from you. We'll have to meet up again soon. I joined Penarth Quilters this week too. I took my first quilt along to continue the hand quilting. I've got as far as starting the borders and sashing now. Not sure if hand quilting is my thing. I'm off to Bromham to babysit for a few days but will message you on FB when I get back. Thanks for the Peppa Pig link too by the way.

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  2. You are a busy bee, your shawl looks lovely and your quilt blocks are really coming along beautifully. The new class sounds a bit daunting with all of those fabrics needed.

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  3. Wow you have heaps of projects on the go in so many mediums :) Gosh I adore your fabric choices in your medallion quilt! Your new class sounds daunting, at the very least you will learn heaps about colour :) Your Peppa Pig sounds fascinating (yes we know about her here in Australia) and that cushion just looks stunning :)

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  4. What a lovely shawl! Nice work. And I think your quilt will be lovely as well. Nice gift for your friend.

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  5. I'm loving your muted colours and that shawl is divine! Thanks for linking up to the slow bloggers' party x

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    1. I am trying out so many colour combinations. Today I started a Cascading Logs quilt in bright colours. The muted colours are not really my favourites. I get drawn to Kaffe Fassett fabrics with their saturated colours!

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  6. Your shawl is really beautiful and the cushion will be amazing! I hope you enjoy your quilting class :)

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  7. Your shawl looks delicious! l hope you made good use of it yesterday when it was blowing a hoolie!

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  8. What beautiful crafting! The quilts are amazing, so neat, and your shawl is gorgeous! I can't believe you're new to crochet...thanks for linking up! Chrissie x

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    1. Thank you Chrissie. I really enjoyed the foundation piecing blocks on the medallion quilt and I will be doing more.

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  9. I love the elegant colours of your patchwork and shawl! You make me wish I could crochet:-)

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    1. I've only had 6 classes but we covered all the stitches and it doesn't seem too difficult so far but I have only done this one pattern!

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  10. Looks like you have been very busy! Your star blocks look great!

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