Crafty update.....

On Saturday morning I picked up this quilt which I had professionally quilted and bound through Somerset Patchwork and Quilting (luckily for me this shop is situated in the suburb where my Dad lives - lucky hey?)


Now there is a bit of a story to this quilt - I started it over 10 years ago for a friend's 60th birthday.  But somehow the birthday came and went (I did give her a lovely present of a beautiful tray) and the quilt was never quite finished.  The years came and went and finally, finally, finally I got my act together and took it to be professionally quilted, as I said.  My original plan was to hand quilt it all myself but life got busy, it was a daunting proposition as the quilt is a very, very large square quilt and I sort of lost interest in patchwork and quilting and fell in love all over again with cross stitch.  

But anywhere, here it is....  Voila!

The centre toile square.

Detail of the quilting and the back (a green toile pattern).

Now I just have to hemstitch the binding to the back (oooh, I hope it doesn't take me another 10 years!)

As well as the thrill of picking up the quilt, I managed to get lots of stitching on Liberty Lane done this weekend.

Here is where I was up to on Friday.

... and where I was up to when I went to bed last night....

I am having a bit of a race with myself as I am not sure that I have enough of the GAST thread (the blue and red) left to finish the stitching (I have ordered more but it may not come in before Easter).  Somehow I feel if I stitch fast enough I will beat the thread and it will not run out - silly aren't I?

I also made another batch of Italian cookies - these go down a treat with my lot!

So join me for some morning tea later today?  (it is 7.15 am here on Monday morning and I am getting ready for work (or at least I should be!!!!)

Have a good day everyone,

hugs,

Some Stash Empire Building ....

..... Quilting Fabbie-style:


I had to spend some time in Mount Waverley yesterday, helping out my elderly parents with the visit of the  Chronic Heart Failure Nurse from Cabrini Hospital (sounds very ominous doesn't it?) and then with a doctor's visit to care for the open wound on my DM's leg (she knocked her swollen calf on the hospital bed and caused an enormous haematoma on her leg (about 2 inches long by over 1 inch wide!).  So, after I finally dropped them off home I went to have a very late lunch right next door to the Quilt shop, Somerset Patchwork and Quilting, in Mount Waverley - Natch!

I just couldn't resist these 19th century reproduction fabrics:

and the gorgeous colours of these variegated threads from DMC.

hugs,