3 weeks and my constant companion

 Here is Miss Milly.  she has become my little shadow for the past 3 weeks.

 Shes been loving the breakfast on the veranda, which has extended into lunch and arvo tea when the weather has been perfect.

 Cookie has also loved his outdoor time and has been sitting on the chair like lord muck.

 When I have been sitting indoors Milly takes up residence on top of the chair.. from here she can see outside and watch me on the couch.

 So I have been continuing to work on the double wedding ring... my frame became a good spot to drape my first completed row.

 Today I didn't have any visitors so I sewed the first row to the second row!!!

Amazing to see how quickly it is coming together.  I have been really good and decided that I wouldn't turn my laptop on during the day.  This has proved to be a good plan as I have utilised my down time well.

Speaking of down time.... I have a physiotherapist coming to see me on Wednesday.  I hope that she will be able to give me some exercises and help me take my first steps without my other constant companion... the frame!

time to hand sew

so here I am one week after my close encounters with the gravel.

I am healing ever so slowly..... time for me to learn to be patient.

I have however used my time well and have been working on the froglets double wedding ring quilt.  I now have 5 rings in a row!

My friend is going to come over on Tuesday and we will lay it all out and label the pieces so i have a nice balanced quilt.  Yes its a scrappy quilt but I still like it to be balanced... nothing worse than finding all the dark bits are in one corner after you have quilted it!!

My left buttock is aching now... think I might have over done it a little.... tomorrow shall be another 'rest' day.

Im a winner!

I won a prize today! I'm soooo excited.

Its from skirt sports and its something from their new 2012 collection. I will be the first Australian girl to get something from their range.



I have admired their stuff for sometime but haven't gotten around to purchasing anything yet.... I will let you all know what I receive.

Last night at sewing I actually got some sewing done... a couple more arches of the double wedding ring were completed.

School holidays are stopping me from doing some of my regular things but that's okay as I get to do other stuff with the girls. Today I bought some plastic drawers to put in my walk in wardrobe to try and free up some space and make it all look neater.... not sure if I made it better or worse!

cornerstones on the DWR

I posted a while back about my newest project that I have started.

I think I have cut out all the pieces that I need to make my eldest daughter a double wedding ring quilt.

I know that traditionally this is given to your daughter when she gets married, well I'm starting it early as it will probably take me that long to complete, poor girl doesn't even have a boy friend hehehe.

Now I have made a few of the arches and i threw them on the floor to see what they would look like with the cornerstones. I'm still happy with the colour of the 2 cornerstones and don't feel that they are too strong....


I'm going on my guilds retreat in a couple of weeks time and there is a shop along the way that has a large selection of fabrics along the lines that I have used, mainly Robyn Randolph's, so will look and make sure that there isn't something that looks even better than what I have already.

double wedding ring and give aways

First of all I need to mention that there are 2 great giveaways up for grabs, I don't usually enter lots of these but I like the goodies that they are offering so thought I would put my hand up for a go.
the first one (not in any order) is for greenfairy quilts Judi is giving away a very nice looking FQ bundle.

The next one I have is for primitivehutch this is a new addition to my blog that I have started to follow and added to my list on my blog so that I can see when Robin updates her blog!



Now here is a peek at my newest project. yep double wedding ring.

A lot of these fabrics came from a wonderful lady that I met when I first started quilting and we formed a friendship through the Internet. She gave me a large bundle of offcuts and I have made several quilts and a bag and some friends have some of these fabrics in their quilts and bags too!

I chose fairly bold colours for the cornerstones and I still feel that they don't stick out like dogs bollocks.


My friends at sewing sat and cast their critical eyes across the fabrics and most of them agreed with my choice, will make up a few more strips and put them on the floor and take a photo... that aways helps!