AJ's Antics

Progress on anything around here is so slow it is backwards! A few stitches here and there, pull it out, feel guilty cause there are other more pressing deadlines to meet, put it away again. I've been looking through our holiday photos and making our long awaited photo book while it was on special. Not sure I'll meet the January 2015 deadline I was hoping for on London and Paris....I'll be lucky to get just this one done! 

Finally managed to get the 4-Wheel-drive dirty last weekend! We had a great time camping and making fires for marshmallows. I did a few rows on the rainbow ripple but it can be tricky to see the stitches in the light of the campfire. And the smoke! It still smells a bit!  I've since added a new colour and only have one more to complete the rainbow before I can start the repeats!   Joining in here for the WIP Wednesday 

IVF surgery, medical complications,emergency department, morphine, baby boy turning 5, party prep mostly directed to and dispersed among family as I was too ill, 28 kids at the park, packing boxes, moving house, staying on top of things at work, family visiting, quilting deadlines, winter illness, more birthdays.....life got pretty busy there for a while! Who am I kidding it is still super busy and non-stop action. We've moved house New Neighbours The view from the front balcony It is a bigger and better designed house. There are still things in boxes, but we are functioning and loving it.  My sweet baby turned 5! I'm not sure I'm ready to send him to school next year....although he is more than ready! The Aunties out did themselves. It totally fitted the brief  - a number 5 racetrack with a bridge and a red lollipop stop sign I have more to share from his party but that is a whole other 'pinterest' post!  Sorry if you follow In I...

I'm a sucker for half square triangles and I'm a sucker for....'everyone else is doing it' So because I can and the timing was right I joined in the Sew-a-long hosted by Gnome Angel I picked out some favourite Central Park fabrics and got chopping I'll be back to show you more progress!

I was showing a colleague some of  the quilts I have made in the past a few months back and didn't think much else of it til she approached me asking if I make quilts for others. I have done a few in the past here, here , here , here and here . But this one is going to be different. It will be a memory quilt with photo blocks of the 13 grandchildren this lovely lady has. I started drawing up a plan....and then sashed the photos. Decided the photos were bigger than the picture that I had in my head and needed bigger fabric blocks to go with them. Re-drafted the blocks and fabrics cuts....bigger cuts means less of them right? The photo on the top left has the squares attached to it...the others are just layout on the wall. I'm liking it so far and I quick text with a positive response means I'm on the right track!  Yeah! Now to get it done by the deadline! Joining in with Little White Dove for the Aussie WIP link up! What have you been making ...

I swap with Swap-bot! Something a bit different for this Work in Progress post!  Just to prove that I do still quilt....sometimes... in small doses! These cute little houses are on the cutting mat for the block swap above. They'll be finished by Friday and in the mail. Looking forward to seeing what I get back in the post And I'm still working on the ripple....half way there! Catch you next week!

Ever been so involved in a  project that you can't think of anything else? Nope me neither.....I so have Crafters ADD! I went looking through a pile of fabric to find the material I know I have for making a knights outfit for Aden...and look what I found!  An almost finished quilt top! So what is a girl to do but sit down and finish off the last 4 blocks! The tutorial for these blocks can be found here . Please don't look at the date! Most of the blocks are together now....I'm stopping to rest my shoulder. But hopefully I can join the last few together tomorrow.... and find that knight fabric..... I'm  counting it as progress in my 'Kick the Bucket 2014' challenge. You can read about it here .