A Village Quilter

Well - just to prove I did make something last week - here's the broach I made for a very special friend's birthday. I hope it arrived on time otherwise she'll see it here for the  first time.  I really enjoyed making it - based on an article in this months Stitch magazine. It was so nice to sit and stitch and finish something within a couple of hours. I'm really pleased with the finish - it's got a very tidy back with a nice broach pin. What have you made recently?

Well last Sunday was my 40th birthday. As you can see I had a lovely BIG cake. I also had a great party that went on from 12 noon until 9 that evening. I had a great time - loads of friends and neighbours came. I also had some fantastic pressies - everyone was very very generous. You may be surprised to hear they included some related to quilting. LOL. I was so happy that so many people were able to turn up and I hope they had as good a time as I did. A huge THANK YOU - you all made my birthday very special.

Hi. Yes I'm still here. Sorry about that - I didn't realise it had been almost a month. Anyway no great excuses - so I'll just crack on. The piece below is made up of the left over binding and pieces of fabric I had left from my Bosworth Water Tower. I thought I could use it to try out a few ideas and techniques rather than have them on lots of bits of calico sandwiches all over the place. I promise I'll post it when it's finished. In my Bramble Patch Class , Bren set us all a 'postcard challenge'. The idea was to exchange postcards and use them as as inspiration to make a gift for the person whose postcard it was. I forgot to take a photo of the postcard - but it was of a bicycle under a tree in a wild flower meadow with the Oscar Wilde quote of 'I can resist anything but temptation'. Well I can resist anything except tea and cake - so that was what I made. I received a beautiful Dream Catcher with a dragon fly on it. I'll take a photo for next ...

Yes - it seems to come around so quickly these days - I'm 39 today. So it started with lovely cards and great pressies (plus DH has paid some drawing classes at a local college for me) Thank you everyone. And then we went out for the day at Hoar Park Craft Centre , and we drove past lots of fields like this: And then I fed the baby goats And then the deer And the chickens didn't want to be left out either... Lunch and we drove home. We then had a lovely walk around The Park and somehow we ended up in the pub garden for a drink. The Italian was shouting - so we had a pizza and then off home we went. I've watched 'Layer Cake' (with Daniel Craig - very good) and had just a couple of glasses of wine and now I'm shattered and off to bed. I've had a really great day. Night all.