what a busy week

at work :-) after our training day on monday my room buddy r and i decided to have a big change around in the room and make things a bit nicer, we changed the areas around and i've been making stuff for the home corner and also for the outside area, we went for a walk on tuesday and bumped into a tree surgeon who was chopping down some trees on a local estate, we managed to sweet talk him into bringing us some branches and logs so i've been busy all week turning our outdoor area into a bit of a woodland, have branches tied all along our fence, we made an autumn basket with leaves,grass and plants with the kids yesterday and today we made a bug hotel LOL i am now officially knackered and so looking forward to my sarahs cards retreat (13 dyas to go eeeeek!) and then a week away in a wood lodge :)

diabetic checkup today

and it was all good, my cholesterol is fine, and i had lost 8.5lbs since i was there 3 weeks ago, she was very happy with that but not as happy as me LOL let's just hope i can keep that up :-)

delilah quilt mark 2

all done and ready to be delivered on november the 4th :-)

all done

bar the handstitching :-) i was asked by a facebook friend and fellow uks'er if she could buy the last quilt i made, it was already for someone but i had enough material to make another if i bought more backing and wadding so i said i would make it for her, i had to have it ready in time for the sarahs cards retreat on the 4th of november to give it to her there so i'm rather glad to say it's nearly done :-) my next quilt is another lap quilt in blue/green and white. i'm making it to raffle at work with the money going to the sir bobby robson appeal, it's where a work friend was treated when she had a brain tumour so we always try to raise some money for it every year, i'm thinking of charging a fiver for a ticket and would be delighted to raise £100 :-) plan to get the material for that cut up tomorrow as well as get my first scrapping of the month done LOL then i want to make a wee padded case for my xmas kindle :-) got my eye on some lush sausage dog fabric from the stah for that little job LOL

more pretty fabric

has arrived so the weekend will be made up of cutting up said fabric and sewing it into another quilt LOL oh i do love this quilting malarkey :-)

pink and girly

the quilt

close up of the quilting

that is what was requested so that's what i came up with, i absolutely adore the material so i'm hoping that the recepient loves it too though i'm pretty sure it will be well recieved :-) i quilted it very simply with just a double line of stitching down either side of the seams and around the main panel but i think it works very well :-) so that's another one all ticked off, i can make a start on my red, black and white one now then i want to make some bags as xmas presents :-) talking of xmas we made a start on the xmas shopping this afternoon, i'm getting a kindle and dad is getting some new clothes and some books so far :-) also have my eye an another couple of cricut carts and some scrappy stash :-)

a couple of close ups of the materials

what a week

it's been a scorcher which wasn't great at work and nights have been horrid cos it's been so hot :( have a new laptop to play with (a lovely shiny glossy red one) after i accidently spilled wine on the old one and dad needed a new phone so i've been showing him how to use that, and today i've been finishing the quilt for tracey's niece, it looks gorgeous then i can get started on the next one that's been sitting in the box for a while, just been watching dr who, it was good but i had guessed what was going to happen, now watching judges houses on the x factor, the only time i watch it LOL anyhoo time for a glass of white and waiting for the take awat to arrive :-)