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Zillions of four patches…

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

After yesterday’s inactivity, today I’ve got my energy back and I feel rested and raring to go. I guess my body just needed a quiet down day and I was lucky enough to be able to take one. All the looking at my stash that I ‘ve done over the last two days made me […]

The clearout continues…the fabric stash…

Monday, February 7th, 2011

Very slowly, as work, time and health allow, I’m working my way round the house, clearing out cupboards, recycling and getting rid of stuff we really don’t need. It feels great even if I can’t say the rest of the family are really on board….but when nobody is noticing the clearout fairies get to work… […]

Powder Blue Pinwheels

Friday, February 4th, 2011

Normal life as we know it has ground to a halt here. Now I’ve got all the children at home sick, but  most of the time they’re just fast asleep in bed, fighting this horrible fluey bug. There isn’t a whole lot of nursing to be done if I’m honest! I’m feeling a little bit […]

Pinwheel Sunday

Monday, January 31st, 2011

Yesterday I managed to finish piecing my Nature’s Notebook pinwheels. Not enough for a twin sized quilt – but I’m going to go a bit wild on the borders and as this quilt is heading for a bunkbed I think it should end up big enough. What have I learned? 1. Pinwheels need strongly contrasting […]

Still playing with pinwheels

Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

I’m still tootling along making pinwheels. There hasn’t been much time this week. Real life (and work!) has a habit of getting in the way and I seem to be spending a lot of time on homework assistance as the kids are coming up to school report time, so there are a lot of tests […]