026 Lucy Boston Update

Just popping in to show you the latest Lucy Boston block.  I like this one!

Things are progressing smoothly.  Loving doing these, though my thumbs are really starting to hurt!

See you soon!

025 Lucy Boston update

Man, all these Lucy blocks.  Are you sick of them yet?  I'm not.  I love them.  I'll assemble a total quilt photo soon when I have a little time.

Almost at the end of school holidays.  Time sure does go fast!  Back into a routine soon enough.  We'll see if I can be as productive in February as I have been in January.  At least blogwise.

Have a great day!

024 Rose Week 2019

A throw back to October 2019 when we had our annual Rose Week.  I've shown you these before, and I know you've enjoyed them.  So please enjoy the current batch of photos!

There are so many clever people around, let me tell you.  It's been a dismal, miserable year where I live.  We have had no rain, there are dust storms that people are dying in, the bushfires - oh the bushfires....it's so nice to have something pretty to look at once in a while.

Hope you enjoy them.

023 Lucy Boston update

Each time I finish a Lucy block, I think that this one is my favourite.  Then I do another one and THAT one becomes my favourite.  I love this one too.

022 Lucy Boston Block Blue

Another Lucy Boston bites the dust.

Love this one.  Love blues in a quilt.  I'd make a whole Lucy Boston with just blues if it didn't make my jolly thumbs hurt.  Do you get that?  Sore thumbs from handpiecing?  Who'd have thought?

Have a great day!

021 Purple Oh My Stars Part One

I've found a lovely quilt from Pat Sloan called Oh My Stars, and it's perfect for a scrap quilt.

Part of my problem is finding big enough yardage to make a quilt.  I've lots of pieces that I can use to make five inch squares or bigger, and these use those perfectly.

It's far from finished, and it needs a border but it doesn't take more than a day to get the top done.  And I think as a giveaway quilt, it's a lovely design.  I don't want to give away crappy stuff, I want the recipient to love it.  

Hopefully they will.  Just because it's a charity quilt doesn't mean we need to give away our crap stuff.  And while it's hard to do a 'generic' design that will suit everyone, I think this one works.

Anyway.  I'll show you the updated picture when I have finished!

020 A finish to show you - crochet blanket!

So it's done!  I showed you the ongoing crochet a few days ago, and it's done now.  Done and dusted, ends sewn in, all good to go.  Even got a border on it!

It's very difficult to show a nice photo of crochet, I've decided.  I look quite enviously on other crochet blogs and wish I could style my photos a little better, but it is what it is.  As a craft blogger, I make a very good housewife.

I do love it.  It's warm and squishy and big enough and heavy enough to be comfortable in deep winter.  It's far too warm for it now though, being the height of summer that it is.

So another finish off the list.  Excellent!

019 Lucy Boston Update

Back to quilting for a while.  I have finished another Lucy Boston block.  I've lost count now, I really should keep a tally of where I'm up to.  

I apologise for the lack of cropped photo.  Keeping it real though, you can see all the messy threads on the quilting wall.

Talk soon!

018 Show And Tell - Mini Amish

Geez Louise, I've made some crap in my lifetime.

This is another example.  Made to fit in a laundry.  I made two, hung them both and yeah, they looked okay at the time (we're talking years ago) but I'm seriously wondering what to do with them now.  I could chuck them, to be honest I'd be too embarrassed to give them away.

These small wallhangings are useless to me now.  But what to do with them?  Dilemma, dilemma.

See you soon!

017 Luna Park Melbourne

On one of our spare days in Melbourne, we took the girls to Luna Park, in St Kilda, Melbourne.

Luna Park is a very old, historic fun park based in very old, very historic St Kilda.  I assume back in 'the olden days' one would catch a train to the seaside, and visit the fun park.  Now it was a $20 Uber ride but fun none the less.

It's obviously been given a paint job because everything seemed to be sparkling new and bright.

Don't be fooled by the lovely sunny skies.  It was bitterly, bitterly cold.  The girls had free run of the park, with no lines, because it was back to school in Victoria.  But also - very cold. 

I think they had a wonderful time.  Their parents had a wonderful time once they got back to their hotel room and warmed up.  It was Very Cold.

That's all for now!  See you soon!