A Quilt Along ...

Well I have been busy along with everything else trying to get the quilt top finished for the lady that has ordered the quilt.

Here are all the cream blocks on which I am going to sew the "flowers".

I also have cut out the corner stones and setting strips.

I am trying to use as much pale pink, soft green and cream as possible.

The actual color for the setting strips is "Baby Pink"

Here is one of the flowers all sewn down only 8 to go.

I am using a button hole stitch on my sewing machine and a very pastel variegated thread by Mettler. It is a cotton that has a silk finish which means the thread is shiny and when sewn it brings a lovely sheen to the work.

I have also just purchased two reels of variegated thread by Signature, it is called "Pastels" and has a lovely variation of pinks, green, cream with a little bit of mauve and lemon.

This will go well with the quilt.

I purchased it online as I only have a Spotlight and Lincraft stores locally neither of which sell these sort of quilting threads.

I bought it from Patchwork Promises.

http://patchworkpromises.com.au/

Well not a lot of exciting cooking was done over the weekend as I was busy, so it was quick meals like toasted sandwiches and chicken stirfry.

So till tomorrow I had better get back to the sewing machine.

More sewing

Well I didn't get any sewing done yesterday as I vacuumed. Now I normally don't do this job because of my bad back.

My friend Miss Peru used to do it for me, then she shifted to qld last year, then Miss Le Coiffure took over, but of late she hasn't been able to do it. So it has been on me, after yesterday I remember why I can't do it. I ended up with a migraine and in so much pain, so I had to ret for the afternoon to recover.

Once Miss Fish heads of to work I will get stuck into my sewing, todays job cutting 9 very large squares and lots of strips.

I will report on progress tomorrow.

Some Good News and a Fix for My Technical Issues

Well technical issue sorted - what was the solution - completely turning of the mobile and back on again and it linked quite happily to the laptop.

If it had been the laptop I would have tried that but I didn't think of it for the mobile. :)

I was lucky enough to sell this quilt to lovely lady in South Australia. After she received the quilt she e-mailed me to see what other quilts I had.


I sent her photos of the only other quilt I had finished. Photo below.

Guess what ? She loved it and bought it.







Then we got emailing and she wanted to know if I had a quilt in soft green, pink and cream. Well I didn't have a completed quilt but I had started one. After a few more e-mails and photos being sent back and forth I am now putting all the baby sewing on hold so I can get it finished, which is going to be the easy part.

The lady would like a rather quilt as she has a very high bed, so the hard part is going to be quilting it, but I am getting ahead of myself I need to finish the top first.

Now I don't have a recipe today as I haven't really cooked in the last week and half with everybody being sick. So now that everybody is well again I can get back into making nice recipes.

Technical Issues

Well when you think everything is going alright, life throws up another speed bump.

For me to post photos that I have taken I need to toggle/ tether my iPhone to my laptop. Everything was going along swimmingly until I recharged my phone last week now it won't work.

So this mornings job is to ring Telstra and ask them what the devil is happening.

So until this little problem is fixed I won't be posting any recipes with photos.

As Mr CLI and Miss Fish are still watching what they eat after last weeks illness, there wasn't much in the way of cooking over the weekend as they just needed plain food.

I hope everyone had a good weekend, it has rained so much here I think we could just about need an ark to get to the car.