A lovely parcel full of goodies was waiting for me when I got home this evening. My swap partner picked so many lovely things specially for me - ric rac, fabric, cute vintage patterns.
Some books from Amazon finally arrived too, yep you guessed it, Bend the Rules Sewing and Denyse Schmidt Quilts. Plenty to read to get me through winter.
Oh yes, and I finally figured out how to use the rotary cutter I bought off ebay months ago!
I have finally chosen the pattern I am going to make for the doll quilt swap. After my previous disastrous attempt I knew I wasn’t capable of making one without a little bit of help. So I bought a copy of Little Quilts which everyone seems to recommend and have chosen a lovely quilt which I hope my partner will like.
We have spent all weekend doing little jobs around the house. Sometimes it feels like we live in a leaky ship. If you open a window a door will often slam shut somewhere else! So we have draught-proofed the door, put locks on the windows and sugar-soaped the entire house. Hopefully this will mean we don’t have to paint for the walls for a few more months!
I’ll leave you with a photograph of my latest vintage finds, all stamped British Made:
I’ve been spending a lot online recently, due to working from home so much last week I think. Today a book and some craft supplies from ebay turned up, as well as my first etsy purchase from here. I think you’ll agree the fabric is lovely, almost too good to use. Oh, I think I’ve said that before! Anyway, it turned up addressed to my boyfriend so I hope I haven’t been spending his money…
The other surprise to turn up this evening was a frog! I thought we had got rid of them all over our fence into the neighbours garden, but this one obviously escaped.
Today I travelled all the way to LLandudno and back to visit an office as part of my job. It took hours and hours to get there. So I spent as long on the train as I usually do at my desk! It was worth it though for the view from the train as we went round the north coast of Wales past Rhyl and Colwyn Bay.
Here’s the butterfly I recently made from the Wee Wonderfuls patterncard, I used some precious Liberty fabric - I love the colours!
Here is a sneak preview of the fabrics that are currently winging their way across the atlantic to my swap partner, Ellen, at hurrayic. I have included a variety of old and new fabrics, and there’s a good selection of my favourite Cath Kidston fabrics. I hope she likes them all!
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