Wow...last day off winter already! The year has gone too fast, but bring on spring I love jeans and t.shirt weather. This is my latest quilt that I finished the other week. My first queen size quilt I've ever made from start to finish. I mean the whole deal, quilt top, wadding, backing, binding and the quilting part. My hand stitching flower one is talking so long i thought I'd whip one up on the sewing machine that I can enjoy while I probably take another year to finish the other one. For a piece of fabric to make it's way into this quilt it just had to have some kind of blue in it, it's nearly all vintage fabric and some of the boys old t.shirts.
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Thursday, August 25, 2011
A little change
Gee it's been a while....
So I finally got a bike! After about a year of searching ebay for a nice vintage bike that goes good, I got a new one after all. You wouldn't believe it but a nice vintage bike is worth at least four times the amount of a new one. I saw this display bike reduced for the biggest bargain, so I grabbed it and wheeled it straight up to the counter. And it's even the colour I wanted.
Libby and I have been cruising around town, she loves it on the back in the baby bike seat. It brings me back to being a teenager, oh the memories of having no license.
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Material and a computer
My material now has a new home, the old one was getting abit small. 98% of it is all from the oppshop. Have you ever heard that saying ' the one who dies with the most material is the winner'? Well I think I would be in the running.
And we got a new computer, gotta love tax time. So we are now Mac people. Now I just have to learn how to use the thing. Maybe I'll learn how to do video editing, so I could finally put our wedding onto dvd to watch. It's only been 6 years. Oh that was the greatest day.
Hope your having a great week.
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Today
My man was off at a men's conference today, so the kids and I hit the oppshops (the 2 we have in town). I found this rad green chair that reclines, and it was clean and not smelly. Managed to squeeze it in the van, and then squeeze it in the loungeroom, gave it a test run, then went to the park for lunch.
I also got an old diary from 1990 which had heaps of cool old school pictures in it. So I cut them all out and are decided what I'm going to do with them. Maybe a heartwork.... any ideas?
The kids are now eating tea. And when my amazing husband gets home we are going to see a high school production of Jesus Christ Superstar. And we personally know Jesus.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
New bed
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Sunday, June 26, 2011
The never ending quilt
I can finally sew again with my black thumb! I have missed it the last couple of weeks. Yes were still on the floor but it really doesn't bother us. So I put my quilt on the bed the other day to see how far I have to go, it finally covers the bed! It's been 7 months of sewing almost every day except for the past couple of weeks. It still needs another row of flowers on each edge but the finish line is in sight. I've spent so many hours stitching away, that I think if my house was burning down and I could only grab a few things, this quilt would probably be one of them.
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