Easter Break

For the Easter Break we have spent the weekend with my dad up in the Scottish Borders. The weather was wild, snowy and windy, the sea was very rough.



We only ventured out on Sunday to roll eggs down the hill by the beach.




We also called in to Woolfish at St Abbs. I was keen to show Louise my first finished sock and she took a photo of it for her blog too. She has the lovely sock wool in loads of different colours. She has lots of lovely wool throws for sale in the shop and the sock is lying on one in the photo. I am inspired to get on with the second one now.



The black and white quilt is still progressing. I decided to take on a challenge and free motion the whole quilt!! With Kim's help (thanks to the girls at the Fat Quarters Tuesday night class for letting me gate-crash) and guidance, I have now quilted more than half the blocks. Still a long way to go though.

Happy quilting xx

Hold on tight

Hold on tight was the cry on Friday afternoon at The Fat Quarters as Emma helped me layer up Michael's quilt. It was a bit of a pull and stretch to avoid a fault we found it the backing fabric. This was definitely the biggest quilt I have made so far as I did not have enough pins and had to buy some more. I love reaching the next stage when making a quilt, they are like milestones on a journey. The next one is the quilting. I think I will set up the fab-u-motion on the machine and try some free motion quilting. Kim also showed me how to link from my blog to other websites so as a thank you I have linked to her web site at The Fat Quarters (I hope).


Jenny is doing Food Technology as one of her GCSE courses and is quite interested in cooking at the moment so I bought her this book, Muffins Galore. There is every kind of muffin you could think of, from strawberry and cream muffins to muffins with olives and tomatoes. She made these delicious chocolate chip muffins.


I am easily distracted when doing household chores and these flowers caught my eye while I was hanging out the washing. A good excuse to put down the pegs and go and get the camera. These pink Hellebores, I always thought were called Christmas roses but I have just read in a magazine are actually the Lenten rose. Son they are right on cue a week before Easter.

Happy Quilting xx