It's a girl!

 I'm so happy to say that on 27th March, we welcomed little Ebony Grace into our family.

She's the last little person to join our family and we cannot believe how sweet she is.

She's a little angel

The boys are totally smitten with her. She weighed in at a tiny (for me - the others were over 9 pound each) 7 pound 12 ounces.
Can't wait to do some girly sewing soon! I've been looking around for cute patterns and fabrics and trying very hard to not purchase them! I mean, at the moment she's only in 00000 (five 0) clothes!

Urban Circus II

As soon as I saw Laurie Wisbruns Urban Circus II, I just had to have it. I love blue and green for boys and I love Laurie's fabrics. The fabrics arrived last week and seeing as I had a spare day yesterday, I whipped up this cute and simple patchwork quilt.

I teamed it up with some DS fabrics from my stash and the squiggly blue one of Ed Emberlys.

I knew I had to use my Valorie Wells Urban Jungle flannel I've been hoarding for years for the backing.

I quilted it on the diagonal from both sides and it feels lovely and soft and snuggly.

The quilt measures 90cm x 90cm and is listed in my Madeit store, waiting for a baby boy to love.

Love quilt

I recently heard of the tragic death of young mum and fellow Madeit Seller Tammy Boorer. 

Her husband is still in a coma from the same accident. Her two young children and mum were also injured in the accident. 

Some of the lovely Madeit ladies organised a fundraiser night to try and help raise a bit more money to help with the bills etc for Tammy's family. I decided to contribute this LOVE quilt.

I used Amy Butler Love fabrics, Tula Pinks LOVE pattern and quilted it with random hearts in the stippling to continue the theme. I've wanted to try the pattern for a long time and this seemed like the perfect opportunity.

It was listed in my Madeit store on the 13th of Feb and sold the next day. It is a crib/lap size quilt and I'm glad I got to contribute to the fund raising for the Boorer family. They have a long long road of recovery ahead of them and I am sure every little bit helps. 

 

Embarrassed

I am embarrassed to say that this is the state of my vegie garden at the moment. 

Completely over grown with grass and weeds.

There are remnants of vegetables still visible. The super hardy Asparagus and Rhubarb.

Though the Asparagus is struggling I'd say!

One lone pumpkin that we tried to make into the Worlds Biggest - failed dismally there! Hubby tried spraying the paths for me so we could find the garden beds back! The sunflowers were about the only things that thrived. Oh, that's besides the weeds!

There are some tomatoes, but they aren't very nice. They seem to have some sort of insect eggs inside them. 

So, in a bid to try to regain some sort of self sufficiency, the boys and I are spending an hour after dinner every night cleaning out the beds. We have 2 so far! One we have put in a punnet of lettuce seedlings and heirloom beetroot seeds. The other half full of bean seeds. I've been bitterly disappointed with the beans from the supermarket so hopefully we will get some before the winter comes. 

This week

School started back this week. Big Preprimary kid now.  He's been looking forward to getting back to school for weeks. Now it's here though, he's been a bit disappointed with it.  

Tuesday night he told me he was feeling sad that they hadn't learned anything yet. I explained that maybe as it was only the second day of school maybe the teachers were still letting everyone settle in. Fair enough.
Last night after picking him up from school, on the way home he told me:
 "Actually mum, I'm still trying to work this preprimary thing out"
" Oh really? What do you mean?" my reply.
"Well, is preprimary for learning or just playing, coz we still haven't learned anything yet".
Oh the eagerness of young minds! Bless him!

I only hope that he continues his enthusiasm for learning for the many daunting years of school left!

Samuel didn't want to be in any photos with his big brother! And yes the dolphin has been going to school too. He stays in his school bag and at lunch William says hello and zips him back in. Dolphin misses him too much otherwise.

So, while I am one child less now I have been doing a small amount of catch up sewing. This Ruby disappearing nine patch is for our farm worker and his wife. They had a baby girl last week (a bit early but nice and healthy). All new babies need a baby quilt! 

I've wanted to make a disappearing nine patch for a while now and I'm so glad I did! Easy peasy blocks to put together in no time, and  a bit more interesting than just a patchwork.

Backed with AMH flannel (I'm trying to collect as much as I can before it's all gone). LOVE to work with it and it really is lovely on the back of a baby quilt. 

This is not even a full charm pack, maybe 5 squares left over? A little white border to make it a little bit bigger and now we can finally deliver it and meet the new baby. 

Meanwhile, only 8 weeks till we meet our new baby. AHHH!

Baby Chevron

Yay! Another quilt finally finished! This is another one that sat for months waiting for me to get back to it. All it needed was the final row sewed together, backing quilting and binding.

It is the first solids quilt I have done. I really like it. 

I've used Michael Miller flannel on the back. I'm loving flannel backed quilts at the moment. 

I kept the quilting to a minimum so it would stay nice and soft and snuggly. 

Now onto my next finish!

First for 2013

I've finally finished my first quilt for 2013! I actually started this way back somewhere in 2012. I had it quilted and waiting for binding for many months and finally decided to bind it.

After seeing Ashleys stunning Liberty patchwork, I decided I had to make one. 

I used Anna Maria's Horners stunning Luluthi flannel for the back (one of my favorites) and a bit of DS quilts fabric for the back - from Spotlight. I love how it all came together.

 And I'm super happy I've finished one of my many UFO's!!