2021 Week 12

So what have i been up to?  Work (of course!) but apart from that . . . I stitched these five Easter panels from Kiwi Designs: rather than making them into a panel I made them separate - they could maybe be used as mugrugs? 

Briana nd Niki have been creative - the old (original 1960s) flat porch roof has gone and been replaced by this one - and because he's just as much a hoarder as I am, he could find the tiles that came off the roof in 1995 or so to make room for velux windows and use them on the new porch roof!!!

A friend became a granddad, so a good excuse to finish an I-spy quilt!

The pre-school children came into church to hear the Easter story and hunt for felt Easter eggs - it was lovely to see this lad in the fleece that I embroidered for the uniform holding and egg that I'd embroidered for their trip to the church

My Crochet blanket is growing: but as the weather improves I'm doing less - it might have to be put away unfinished until next autumn.

I took a sneaky trip top Cliveden House - just walking the grounds but it was a beautiful days and I may have bumped into two friends who were coincidentally there too

I was asked to make a Ginger commemorating ANZAC day (end of April).  This photo

became these Gingers

via  a game of thread chicken!!!!!  (I won, phew!)

Scratchy cat seems to think this blanket might be hers!!!!

A Monday with May

I know lots of you went to the  Retreat in London this last weekend - well I didn't, but I got to hear all about it first hand.

I knew that May from Confessions of a Fabraholic was coming from Germany for the retreat, and I invited her to stay the following night with me before she flew back home.  As well as following May's blog, I know her through the Star Of Africa Bee that she has arranged (see the blocks I received here), and the texty charm swap that she also arranged where I got this lovely bundle.

Our weekends are normally quit and peaceful, but somehow this one became ridiculous - poor May! As she arrived the family were here on mass: both daughters, two boyfriends,husband and family friends were all just finishing a race at a kart track. 

Then there were 9 of us for supper for Sunday evening, and Monday morning I had to get up early for work abandoning poor May!

We managed to get a few fabriccy hours together on Monday afternoon.  May brought me these super yummy Oakshott fabrics, which I am drooling over as I type this

and also these fabrics that she considered fluglies, but I'm very happy to have in my stash, and some yummies from Liberty

One of the classes she attended was curved EPP - she showed me the pieces 

and her sample piece

I think that idea will make a great class at Chertsey Museum

By mid afternoon I had to take May off to start her journey home: Our nearest tube station is Heathrow, so we drove to an airport so she could get the tube, to get a bus to get to another airport to get the plane!!!!

We did manage to get an innocent bystander to take this phone 

It was great to meet you May, see you soon

(this was posted yesterday, but then vanished, no idea why!)