Thursday 21 February 2008

I used this design to teach my ladies how to do a medallion quilt. I made mine king size and love the lovely spring colours of pink and green. I took the design from www.blockcentral.com and it's called The Many Designs of Friendship.
It went together brilliantly, every round fitted perfectly.
It took about 15 weeks to finish - a two hour lesson every week, plus working at home for the ladies who made the larger size quilt.
I've been cutting strips today for a log cabin quilt. I'm using foundation piecing to make it. I will post a picture when I have a few blocks to show.
I picked up tickets today for our holiday in Sharm-el-Sheikh. We travel 6 March from Manchester and we're getting excited about it now. We've had a really stressful three months since we found out Dave was to be made redundant, and we really need this break.
More soon,
Peace to all

Monday 18 February 2008

What a wonderful weekend! Saturday was Dave's birthday and I bought him two tickets for the Lyceum Theatre in Sheffield to see South Pacific. Good job he took me with the other ticket! We really enjoyed our night out - we had a superb meal at Damons then on to the show.
Back to work today though. I taught Log Cabin blocks to my ladies at the quilting class this morning and they thoroughly enjoyed it. I'd like to place a bet that most of them will have completed the requisite six blocks by next Monday morning!
Well, we have finally made up our mind where we want to go on holiday in March. Last Friday I booked us an all inclusive holiday to Sharm-el-Sheikh in Egypt in a five star hotel with a room upgrade so we have a jacuzzi bath! Brilliant!
We also bought Dave his 'new' car this weekend, a little Suzuki Swift, great for getting him backwards and forwards to work. I need our bigger Mondeo for all my patchwork stuff! It's a smart little sporty model. Think my 63 year old husband is turning into a boy racer.
That's it for the moment - will try to put more patchwork pics on tomorrow.