Quilting and Easter

What a hectic and somewhat short week! I went a little bit crazy and finished that little quilt, my first ever (drumroll, please!)...ta da!!

the top (need practice!)

neat (ish) corners

the bottom (see those free motion quilted squiggles?!?)

This led to a crazy moment seeing as I had to take my shiny new car, okay so not shiny on account of all the mud splattered all over it, but still quite new car to the dealership for a safety recall (all is now safe) and saw me spending a great deal of time and a fair bit of money in a local quilting shop. I fully support my local shops but I have to be honest and say that the quilt I am planning next could have been made with less agony to my bank account! The tutorials from the Missouri Star quilt Company in America have been very useful and I have decided to make more quilts if only to perfect my new found skills. Who am I kidding? I doubt skill is a word that should be used to describe my quilting yet, anyway. Because I plan to make a quilt for each of the beds in the house (and eventually the sofa bed but let's walk before running, eh?) it seemed sensible to start with the single bed so a riot of pink happened in the fabric shop. One fabric was so gorgeous though that I could not stand to see it cut up into strips for a jelly roll and I chose that for the backing; it's called 16th Century Selfie, I kid you not and there is a link to it here: http://amzn.to/1ZPGkN4

In amongst all of this madness has been the Easter holidays with munchkins running about, an egg hunt all over the farm and trips out. JR has left his much loved post by my ankle as all the running about has tired him out so he has taken to laying in bed, my bed not his, until after 9am! I really don't know how he will cope after the school holidays!! My lovely OH has started going to the local photography club and got roped into being a model for them due to his bushy beard. I hasten to add that he had to grow and keep the beard after meeting me as smooching led to nasty stubble rash (too much information perhaps but necessary to establish his non-hipster credentials). The garden is waking up properly now so I have been outside tending to all of the plants in pots that are being grown for the wedding. It's all happening. I had better go and get on with things as the munchkins are in need of my home made pancakes for second breakfast,

Hugs from Haggis Land,

Jx