February is closing in

This week I finished the crochet blanket I was doing for KOGO

This picture gives a better idea of the colour

The rows are based on this Attic 24 pattern..... ( I do love her patterns)  Most of them are on line or as blog posts though I got a few printed ones when I have bought her kits.

Some time ago I posted that I was working with the Quick Curve Ruler and a pattern by one of the inventors of the ruler (Sew Kind of Wonderful)

This week I put these blocks together, there are other 9 patch blocks to make and they are set on point, but I quite like the circles this way makes

Gardeners Journal has been bound......

I do love the mix of piecing, stitcheries, applique Anni Downs does.  I custom quilted going around the stitcheries and different curvy shapes and lines in the various blocks......

This week a quilt top I made in 2021 is being quilted.  William Morris fabrics and some plain ....

some leafy feathers and twirls....

Tuesleydale got another 6 blocks this week.... 10 down 50 to go!

The friend I am doing the Foundation piecing with gifted me a braid roll of papers.... so today I went stash shopping and found a jelly roll of an old Moda range called Portobello Market.  I will do the braids in PM and add the cream sashing and some meterage of PM for the binding....  I do love an inexpensive quilt kit.  I would have bought the jelly roll when they were $45 I expect (double that now)

I won't be starting it for a while though but I do love a plan.

Righto, Gotto Go.  Eldest son from UK is going to visit so I'll be offline for a couple of weeks.  Will be so good to see him.

Have a great rest of the week....

Snowball Sewalong....

I'm continuing to work on a Snowball Sewalong hosted by Terry .  It was going to be  a way to use up scraps but I had some matching fabrics (fat eight size) so decided to use them and add stitcheries using similar colours...

It still gives a scrappy style look but in coordinated colours....

I have made a nice pile of 9 patch blocks now...

The little pile of 2 1/2" blocks is for the corners of the snowballs....

I am doing Michelles alphabet bears in the snowballs so this part is going to take a bit longer

 I couldn't resist putting a few of them together....

... and this give a little bit of an idea of how they will come together.  I like the link the snowballs are creating with the 9 patches...

... so I am 4 letters down!  only 22 more to go!!! But at least the 9 patches are done....

I love it... thanks Terry for getting this going

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Hubz has a small workshop area and noticed something he didn't put there the other day....

He has obviously been entertaining friends I don't know about!!!  This snake skin was about a metre long .... I may be wrong but think it is from a carpet python, non venomous but can bite if annoyed too much .... I'm not a snake fan so have been walking carefully around that area 

Righto, Gotto Go.... better go and sort a few more alphabet bears out...

Wishing you all a wonderful Easter holiday ... hope everyone can take a break from the frenetic pace of life and have some time doing something you love...

Alphabet Bears, EPP, quilting and Easter bunnies....

I have recently found that I am enamoured with alphabet bears.  For some reason they are appealing to me.... perhaps because there is another grandiebaby on the way and I am feeling nanaclucky?????

A friend of mine (Lyn with no blog) has been making this one

... she is a clever clogs and generates her own design from bears she found on line HERE.....

... aren't they ultra sweet.....

I've been trying to persuade her to do a set and sell them!!!  

(thank you Lyn for letting me take pictures and show them off!!)

Anyway... I have been stitching alphabet bears too ... they are going slowly at the moment as I have decided to sew all the bears and then go back and do the other things in the block

but I did get the borders on these blocks .... I think they are working out just how I wanted it to look

these are from Michelles set of Alphabet Bears ...
and will be part of Terry's snowballs and nine patch scrappy challenge

This is some quilting I did for The Quilters Angel recently
log cabin style blocks so I did sweeping feathers in the middle and then ziggy zaggy lines around the edge

it is a small sample for a lovely kit called Apple Bloom and all done in beautiful Tilda fabrics

..... pretty pretty....

I'm very lucky they let me play with their lovely fabrics

meanwhile there is secret sewing happening....

an EPP challenge.. hmmmmmm

Righto... Gotto Go... I had to reverse sew bunny ears (several times I might add - the trouble is if you decide to make a bundle at once and make a mistake... they are ALL wrong).... so now they are waiting patiently to be stuffed !!! sigh

(Rosalie Quinlan's Easter bunnies)