Poppys:

How cool is this picture? I found it on the Internet, when I googled poppies. Of course I just had to have a go at drawing it, I thought it would be a good addition to the never ending portfolio. As you can see I have not quite finished my version I just needed a little tea break and decided to pop it on the blog fore you all to see. Oh well break-time over back to the drawing board! lol x

All that glitters:

At last the top of my black and gold quilt is finally completed. I finished the last boarder today. It was on my to do list and has been for quite sometime. It needed to be finished because it is beening shown, on Saturday, as part of show and tell at the regional day, along with the other people who have made a strippy log cabin quilt.

Sunflowers:

A couple of days ago I was researching sunflowers. I fell in love with one particular image and decided to draw it and add it to the ongoing portfolio. I thought i'd share it with you all.

Goodies on the post:

several days ago I bid on some fabric on EBay. My friend Jan from Northampton was selling it and I just couldn't resist it. I was delighted when I found out I had won. Yesterday I received two parcels in the post. One was a book of lettering I had bought from Amazon and the other was from Jan. My lovely fabric wrapped in tissue, inside a gorgeous clutch bag, a lovely card thanking me for the purchase and two beautiful pearly shell beads. How spoilt am I and isn't the bag fabulous. Thank you so much Jan.xx

Here is the lovely little lap quilt, I made using that delightful fabric I won. My lovely friend Judith said that sometimes a title for a quilt will just happen during the making and that is exactly what happened whilst I was burning the midnight oil making this quilt. It reminded me off slings and arrows. This then made me think of Hamlets Soliloquy. To be, or not to be: that is the question: "Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?" This is the first few lines. This Quilt is called Slings and Arrows and it was very quick to make. I am looking forward to layering it and I am thinking feather quilting all over, in keeping with the arrows theme.

I won it, so I will have to make a????

Several weeks ago, at Liverbirds, there was a very big raffle. My friend Janet, who is extremely generous, brought lots of bundles of fabric to raffle off. The proceeds of which would go into our Liverbird funds. I was really lucky and one of my raffle tickets was pulled out relatively early. Whilst all the fabric was gorgeous we all have individual taste. We had all been allowed to oggle the fabric pre-raffle draw and I had picked out my first choice and second then third and so on(you get the idea). This system was based on if I'd win, exactly when I'd win and the possibility that other members winning before me. I was right and my first choice was taken by my friend Gwen. She has great taste like me, so I could understand her choosing that particular bundle. Then I won HURRAY! I got my second choice and here it is. Due to running out of the twelve days of Christmas fabric, the other day, I needed a quick fix. This fabric was just begging me to cut into it. After loving stroking the fabric and admiring it since I'd won it, I felt it would be ideal to turn it into a jelly roll. Also, I really should make a jelly roll quilt, from one of the three books I purchased quite sometime ago. And that my friends is exactly what I did but you will have to wait a little longer to see the finished top, I want to add another boarder. I promise it is worth the wait.

Hat box:

Quite some time ago, Colin and I watched a programme on TV. It was presented by the photographer Rankin. In the programme he looked at seven other famous photographers work. He then chose a particular piece of each photographers work and did his own take on each of the images he had chosen. Colin fell in love with the image, girl in the hat box. The original was photographed by Cecil Beaton (1934) and was on the cover of Vogue magazine. Rankin used a Sophie Elis baxter as his model and as you can see, Colin has used my beautiful daughter Michaela, for his take on the famous picture.