I have been busy sewing the blocks for my monthly subscription quilt. I haven't been blogging much but I have still been sewing. I love ...

The second bird went together much easier than the first.  I now have the very piecey art blocks and flower blocks to do. This month is turn...

The bird block has so many little pieces. It took me 15mins or so to get the right pieces out of the folder and get one lined up ready to se...

I've started doing other things in the morning before I sew and write and this morning we went to the shops as well. It's nearly 4pm...

I thought I better get on with the blocks so I finished cutting out and made the first of two bird in the nest blocks. Yesterday went by the...

I finished the binding on the mini quilt this morning. I had to look up how to finish the ends of the binding again. I knew it was an ingeni...

 I took a break from the cutting out and made a mini from the same pattern book. I used scraps from the kits. to do the appliqué and I neede...

I'm not a fan of the cutting out. I managed 5 more fabrics from the list today. There are quite a few pieces that only need to be cut in...

I missed a day but that's OK. I wore my amethyst bracelets the last few days and my pearl and pink opal bracelets. They give me such ple...

 My table is ready to work but I just didn't feel like it today. Cheers, Val

 Just enough done to say I did something this morning. I cut out only 3 different fabrics. This week I picked up my quilting extras from the...

Last Quarter in the Southern Hemisphere Over the past few years I have been enable to link my energy levels to the phases of the moon. For t...

Not much going on today. I didn't feel like I could focus on the free motion for the whole sky. I just did a bit of sky and around the f...

  Just some free motion quilting today. I did around the eggs and the bunnies and the house and butterfly. Then I did the grass. I still hav...

  The raw edge appliqué stitching didn't take long this morning so I added on the checker strip and the batting. I actually thought I ha...

Finally got the last of the 12 blocks done for April. I now have two weeks of cat sitting. This is the lovely Miles. I started the raw edge ...

 I was a bit distracted this morning because I was thinking about finishing my latest doll dress pattern ready for publishing. I lost a bit ...

  Another basket block today. Yesterday I listened to a minimalist expert tell me that it is wrong to want things. Yeah right. Like that goe...

  I was a bit tired this morning so I decided to just tackle one of these basket blocks. The little HST are made by sewing diagonally across...

Today I did my quilting later so my sewing wouldn't disturb my visitors. I have done the second two tulip blocks in pinks. Cheers, Val