Quilt while you're ahead

bye for now...

see you in a couple of weeks

 

be good.  Or be good at it!!

how would you like to meet Amy Butler?

If you do... follow this link - click here - and scroll down.  You'll find out that Amy is coming over from the States and will give a nice talk about her work.

What are you waiting for?  Occasions like these don't come very often!!!

(And if you hurry and send Kirsty - it's her gig - an email she might be able to organize/help with transport from the train station...)

shhh, don't tell Mr M

 Shhhh.  What I'm about to tell you must remain between you and me, do you promise?

First thing first: I love lots of pictures on the walls.  Lots.  Mr M? ... not so many.

Second, I'm very very bad with a hammer.  Very.  Mr M? ... he's good.  Even though he doesn't do it that often because he is very fussy about what to hang where.

Can you see where I'm going here?  Do you remember I told you he's away?  And when the cat's away... this little mouse makes holes in the wall.

Take this gorgeous little painting (done by this very talented lady)

 

Great job eh?  Just don't look behind it...

Not so impressive from this angle...

Or take this cross-stitched 'welcome' (relegated to the laundry room because Mr M 'doesn't do' cross stitch either)

I finally hang it up this morning... badly

one slighlty off target hit... and oops!

At least when the pictures are up (IF they stay up) you can't see anything.

Just don't tell the husband.

hi

 

Mr M is away on business.  For a whole week.

I'm hiding behind my camera trying to ignore the madness around me.

Looking

  

for silence

and stillness

and pieces of me.

WIP Friday

Do you remember the days of WIP Fridays?

I kind of miss them, it was great to see what everybody was working on and a good excuse to pass off UFOs as works in progress...  If you have UFOs of course... me? nooooo, not one (more like ten... ehm ehm).

Anyway, here's two of my current WIPs

These are the rescued squares from this old monster quilt

Now that I have found the perfect replacement yellow I can start the reconstructing process

... process which is hampered by my desire to play with my new toy...

Can I call reading through to 194 pages of instruction manual a WIP? Please?

6 things you don't necessarily need to know about me

 I've been tagged by Amy to reveal 6 random uninteresing things about me.

Oh well...

1) I just stocked up with suncream and after sun lotion. 

2) It' raining outside.

3) I spent a lovely morning with a friend

3) Yesterday I did four washing machine loads

4) I've got a thing for tablecloths (which I never use because I live with a hoard of barbarians)

5) Sometime I crochet just for heck of it.  Who knows what will this end up being...

6) I'm wearing grey nail varnish on my toes.

So, how uninteresting are you?

time flies...

when you have a house full of relatives too look after.

My mother and aunt were over from Italy and although my ironing basket is virtually empty (it's bottomless one.  It is impossible to empty it...) I haven't had time to do much crafting.

We played tourists:

And so found ourselves amongst some...

scary sculptures

some bizarre sculptures

the flowers were gorgeous though

Poppies everywhere

We shopped 'a little' (three Italian women together? shopping is inevitable)

and a little more

and a tiny bit more (couldn't be helped)

But I did find some little time for a spot of sewing:

(it's a portable changing mat for my sister in law...)

And today after a trip to the airport the house is empty again.  Quieter too, but I'm always sad when my mum leaves.

"bobble-stitch handbag"

From 'Vintage Crochet'

Yarn: SGH in dark brown, 10 balls.  Crochet size 5.

As usual there was a mistake in the pattern (lovely book but... oh boy, I don't think anybody proof-read/check the patterns) which is now on the Loop website and I ended up doing my own versions of the cables but I am very pleased with how it came out.

It's lined with linen

 

and it's huge

perfect to carry my next project

Juliet knitted in this yarn

Purchased here.  And soft, so very very soft.

an evening with friends

Last night we had friends over for dinner.

Flowers were bought and displayed,

dough was made

and cut. 

And cooked.

And eaten.

And a merry ol' time was had by all.

when dreams come true...

Today I picked up my birthday present from Mr M

can you guess what it is?

oh yes, baby it is an Eames rocking chair...

and it's all mine mine mine!!!