Life, fabric and teasing.

Three things that I never thought I'd be doing at my age.


1.  Discussing the colour of my daughters snot.....don't ask!
2.  Doing physiotherapy on a guinea pig.......both pig and I feel like idiots, but we persevere.
3.  Buying zit cream for a case of teenage spots......for me! Thank heaven for fringes, that's all I can say.


Ah well, such is life.


But.....
I've had a few great days. Spotlight invited me over for a "chat" and fed me chocolate eclairs, cups of tea and then gave me a voucher for $50....all just for giving them my opinion of their store. I wouldn't mind a few more little "chats" like that.
Then, my fabrics all arrived, such bliss. The voiles are almost too good to cut up, I will have to be very brave to take the scissors to them.

I did deviate a teeny bit while buying the voiles, couldn't resist these too.....

Tomorrow's the big day! I'm off to Kelli's place to eat cake and hand over our swaps, don't think I'll sleep tonight I'm that excited! She's posted a tease on her blog if you want to go and peek, but I warn you she really does TEASE!

I have been very, very bad!

Really and truthfully I am trying to be good! I lay the blame for today's slide down the slippery slope to bankruptcy fairly and squarely on Andi's shoulders.

I told you she came round the other day and brought with her a fabric gift for me........well, it was a large piece of Anna Maria's Little Folk voile....yes, voile! 

I didn't have any voile in my collection (hoard,) not a skerrick, so this one, single, solitary piece looked sadly at me from the table and spoke of others like it in other designs and colours. 

Yes, at this point I will stop and inform you that I am bilingual....I am fluent in fabric-speak.

So anyway,  I spent half a day searching the net for more voile till I hit upon Hawthorne Threads, who not only have a fabulous on-line shop but also have loads and loads of beautiful voile......and they get cheaper and cheaper the more you buy! I was like a pig in mud......a bit of this, some of that.......and suddenly I found I'd bought over twenty yards of fabric. 

I really was trying to be good, sigh, I can only hope that eventually they'll mate and I can become the world's first voile breeder.

Ask and you shall receive.

Do you find that as soon as you say "Has anyone got a .........." (you can fill in the blank with anything) usually someone will pipe up and say, "Oh! I wish I'd known....I just threw one out last week."

Well, I'm here to assure you that miracles really do happen.

The other day I just happened to mention that I'd be making toys with the kids at school next term and one of my tennis team mates looked up and offered "a big bag of wadding." Apparently her husband uses a poly-fibre wadding for some sort of insulating and has loads of clean, unused off cuts, ideal for toy making.

She and her husband arrived today with the "big bag" in the back of their ute. The bag is SO big I couldn't have got it into my car! I reckon there's about one and a half cubic metres of the stuff, it took two of us to carry it into the house.

I am overwhelmed!

Seeing as I'm on a "ask" and "receive" roll, what shall I ask for next.......? 

I know, a trip to Amitie!

You thought I was going to ask for good looks and an endless supply of chocolate, didn't you!

.......maybe next time.

Leaving you with a picture of some lovely fabric I got from the Amitie stall at the last Stitches show.

Fondling fabric.....mmmm!

Look what the postie brought the other day..........I'm in lurve with Alexander Henry and Michael Miller at the moment, luckily I have a very understanding hubby! 

Some of the bigger prints will probably end up in the animé quilt but I'll make badges with a lot of the smaller prints. 

Have you ever had a go with a badge making machine? I can recommend it, they're great fun, I got one for last Christmas because......... well, just because!

So, I'm still churning out the animé blocks..... want to see my latest favourite?

I think it's going to be really hard to part with this quilt, maybe my daughter will have to bribe me!

Progress....slow but steady.

Fifteen blocks done, I know that doesn't sound very much but I have to choose every border surrounding those gorgeous girls with care. I take this job very seriously!My favourite block changes all the time but at the moment this one makes me smile. I think she's a bit "kick ass".

I've ordered 9 yards of different Kona solids to help with all the fill-in blocks, can't wait till they arrive. I'm thinking that lots of half square triangles and the odd log cabin block will be what I''ll make with them.