Nothing to do with quilting

Ok so this has bothered me since Saturday night
What the heck is going on with River Song? ok so you ladies may well have worked out I'm a Doctor Who fan :) I may possibly have a slight...ok huge crush on the current Doctor but it has taken 3 days of trying to work out what on Earth is going on and failing miserably so I thought I'd shout out here and see if you have any thoughts?

Did they, didn't they?
Does Amy ever get to see her daughter grow up?
Didn't River die in the "silence in the library" episode with the lovely David Tennant looking on.
What was with the eye patch at the end of Saturdays episode?


And I'm not even touching on how do they get around killing the Doctor for the 13 time!


I will be back soon with finished quilt pictures :)

Better late than never?

Hello out there to anyone still reading! 

You have my apologies for the infrequency of my posts lately, between birthdays holidays and wisdom teeth September seems to have happened without me.

These blocks are for Rachel in the fabulous Sew Modern Quilt Bee

I've wanted to see this fabric line up close and personal for a while so I was really pleased to get to sew with them.

April from Sewn Together Bee is working on a bottled rainbow quilt which I'm sure will look great once its all together :)

Rather more blurry than I remember when I took it, wine + camera = bad pics!

These ones are for Beth and between customs on both ends stopping her fabric getting here on time and me being rubbish they are rather late getting back to her!

Finally a sneak peek at a soon to be finished quilt - It just needs binding!

On the sewing table this week are the above for binding, Oh yes I machine bind!
Jenna from Sewhappygeek blocks for september at Sew Bee It
and a new project of jelly roll joy :)

Hope you all have a fab week and get some time to sew up a storm!

I went AWOL and loved it :)

So I've been away a while...a while longer than I thought if I'm honest and I'm only just now getting back into the swing of sewing and blogging, so while I sew up some bits to blog about I thought I'd share these picks!

So right before I buggered off to a beautiful Island for a week I ran my first (possibly last!) market stall

Some pretties you may recognise :)

And a surly coffee deprived cold person you don't!

Yes by this point in the morning I was pulling faces trying to hide from the August weather inside an insulated parker begging for coffee (Leggings were NOT a good idea!)

However things got better later in the week with this

Sun rise in Ibiza

We pottered around the coast line, sunbathed and drank way too much sangria (well it would've been rude not to really) We did bimble along to the Hippy market in Es Cana between sitting on our bums doing very little and I'm really pleased we did as the crafts on show were so much fun

These little dudes are key rings, a Captain Jack and a kitty were duly smuggled home :)

The leather working was another thing that stood out, so I thought I'd better get a pic of it!

And lastly a smattering of fairly funky pottery

The trip was an early birthday present as next monday I'm planning on turning 29 yet again (This will be the 3rd time) and it really was one of the best birthday gifts I've ever had :)

Lastly but by no means least is a rather large apology to anyone reading this and wondering "Well where are my Bee blocks!?!" I forgot to post them before I went! They are done and sitting looking at me, which I feel is even worse than not finishing them so again I am very sorry to my Bee peeps these little blocks will be winging across the ocean to you all at the weekend.

Have a great week everyone!

MMM swap and More :)

This fabulous kit and caboodle was sent to me by my amazing Make Mine Modern partner Candi of Raccoon Creek Quilts I have to admit to wanting Carly to come and live with me as soon as I came across her photo in the Flickr pool - And guess what...SHE DID :) she brought some friends with her, the Far Far away 3 gang came along to keep her company as did some amazing grumpy owls! I feel utterly spoilt rotten :) Thank you bucket loads Candi!

As a side note Carly is now living on the wall above my sewing machine, I will post pics once I have cleaned up the sewing room :)

I have been making things this week not just receiving great prezzies 

So far we have 3 new cushion covers (envelope backs as the fear of zippers is still prevalent here)

This is my first attempt at paper piecing and if any of you have any thoughts on fabric conservation please do let me know. I swear our great grandmothers whilst making do and mending did not quilt like this, I have a pile of scraps like no ones business after just one block!

Next on the list is this Quilt as you go cushion made with some Joel Dewberry prints, I enjoyed this and it was really quick to put together.

Last cushion of the day is a bento block cushion (by this point I thought well why not!)

Super densely quilted, two bobbins worth of thread went into this bad boy!

Next up is some fun Decoupage, this lot took an evening and was great fun to put together.

I'm loving the photo frame sooo much :)

Lastly is my lazy girl quilt so named as I didn't do a pick of piecing in it, I found the fabric at Ikea and loved it to bits. I couldn't face cutting it up and felt it was too pretty to be a backing so hey presto instant quilt top, cheeky I know but I love it.

Straight line quilted and the binding is a Kona colour but if I'm honest I don't know which one (I know not very helpful Sorry!) 

Hope you guys enjoyed having a look at this weeks blog offerings and manage to fit some sewing time in this week :)