Frustrated....

Kays bag.



Summer Harmony so far.....

My niece Kay is going to Uni in september to train as a nurse and she asked if I would make her a charm bag for her toiletries. She also asked for floral fabrics and her favorite colour is pink hence the colour scheme.  I know I said I would not start another project until I had finished Summer Harmony but on Friday was a bit of an emotional roller coaster and things began to go wrong when I attachted two of the block boarders. I decided I needed time out from SH and before I knew it I had cut the squares for Kays charm bag. Bag completed I took a deep breath and unpicked offending wobbly block borders and last night I sewed them on correctly. I am now back on track with SH and hopefully it will be finished soon.   

Colourful sky.....

Wow this was the sky just a few minutes ago over the horizion the colura are just so beautiful. I have a fantastic veiw from my living room window.

Results....

No pic today sorry....I just wanted to let you all know that I got a Merit in my foundation course which is what I needed to go to Uni. So I will be attending UCLAN in September i'm really excited and to top it all I also won the travel schoolarship so I will be off to Bath for an amazing four day trip during the six week hols. :)

Taking forever......

Today I put the first lot of boarders on my Summer Harmony quilt but it feels like it is taking forever to finish.  Each boarder has taken just over an hour to complete. However, I am still very happy with the results so far. I am trying to be very disiplined by finishing this quilt before starting any other projects but the list of things I want to make keeps growing. ;)

Tooooo much cream.......

DH asked me to bake him a cake, anything except lemon drizzle so I decided to do a strawberry cream sponge cake. I think I got a bit carried away with the cream filling. Whoops!  Is it any wonder we are both fat he can cook and I can bake, leathal combination. ;)

Quilts, cake and freindship....

Dots medallion quilt designed by Janet.

On Friday I went to Gresford crafts and quilts exhibition, as always it was such a lovely day out despite the rain. I was in the delightful company of Janet, Gwen, Sue and Shirley, we had a lovely lunch, with scrummy homemade cakes and there was lots and lots of laughter. Dot's medallion quilt was the first quilt to greet us and it certainly has the wow factor.    

Oh dear! the wrong shade of red.........

Four block from the last eight.

All the above pics sent to Janet.

One down three more to go yippee.

Today I completed four of the remaining eight blocks for Summer Harmony. As I began the remaining four blocks I realised the other red fabric I intended to use was to dark and not the right tone of red. Oh no what to do? I layed all the pieces of the quilt on the floor and took stock. I wondered if I could introduce some green but I really needed a experts opinion and who better than the designer of the quilt, my wonderful friend Janet. I e-mailed Janet the pictures I have posted, then I telephoned her and we discussed the problem. Janet felt that the green would work and I would still have a nice balance with the colours of the blocks.  Phew crisis over and away I went and made a green block.  When I count my blessings I always count Janets friendship twice because friends such as her are extremely rare.