The man quilt.

The husband is often neglected or so he tells me. The girlies have two and a half quilts each and he has none, Not one. Husband also has an issue with letting go of his shirts when they are worn out. I think that holes in the elbows mean they are worn out but I am wrong. With a jumper over the shirt who will know?

I of course don't want my husband to feel neglected (well he reads my blog I have to say this. Love you darling), so I took action. I reused his old shirts. I think the lay out is rather pleasing and calming.

This will probably be the most expensive quilt I have ever made. I had to buy no fabric at all but husband did need about 7 new shirts...

Cushion cover

I have decided to do something about my guilty conscience. I have decided to turn some (or all) of my orphan patchwork blocks into cushion covers.



This is my first attempt. The colours are really not me. However they are SO seven year old daughter. Thank you Zipit for having the right colour zips. They came in a week all the way from the US.

Please don't judge me too harshly on how I inserted the zip. I think I need to find a good tutorial on how to insert zips into cushions. It turns out that you can't really do the same thing as you do for dresses. Ooops.



Also I think I may need to pad out the cushion a bit with some left over wadding. We'll see what the daughter thinks of it.

On a happy note I have posted the quilts to the Aussie cousins. The cost was bearable. In fact if I hadn't chosen the signed for option it would have been quite a good price.

I had better make a cushion for the eight year old daughter now. 

Two Mummy chickens.

Two mummy chickens have joined the flock. I would have taken a picture with the chicks but they went to school with the daughters for show and tell. Now I need to make two cockerels. Oh and a pink chick for one of daughters friends. I have a commission  OK so she is 7 but still it's a commission.  :-)

I am trying to link to Crazy Mom's Friday finish hope it works. 

Post office

I need to go to the post office. I need to find out whether I can actually post the quilts to the cousins in Australia.
I am fairly sure I can it just depends on how much it will set me back...
Fingers crossed it won't be too usurious.

And the two log cabins are...

a tiny little chicken. She is now waiting for a family of multi-coloured scrappy chickens to join her. 

Can you tell what it is?

 Can you guess what these to little log cabins will turn into? With any luck I will be able to show you tomorrow.

I finished (at long last) a large coaster for my mother. I hope she likes it. It should go well with her placemats. 

My little helper

 My little helper has been getting into all sorts of mischief.
 I was warned by her breeder that Schipperkes like to be part of the family and like to know what is going on.

 

I am not sure if trying to help with the sewing is such a good plan. 

She does make a good model for my quilts though. This is daughter 2's flower brickwork. Most of the fabrics are from the Emma's flower range.

 As you can see she is a professional. Here she is trying to find the best spot to pose.

Ah she has settled for the best place. Daughter 1 went with the brick work theme and ran with it. Hence all red fabrics and sand coloured mortar. Again most of the fabrics are from Makeover.