Fly away geese!

I'm over making you!  And I'm definitely over trying not to cut the points off them!  Why didn't I do a simple border??

Well it's coming along.  I have made the top and bottom borders so I just need to sew those on and then there's a simple rectangle border to finish it off.  It's my birthday on Sunday and my birthday is in May so that means the May deadline is approaching very quickly!  Yikes!

We had our Easter Sunday dinner yesterday.  My morning started off with this mess to clean up.  The culprit looks quite innocent doesn't he?

Here's my table all set up.  My oldest son kept turning the cutlery because he thinks he's funny.  He won't be laughing when he's hosting next year.  But I will!

I couldn't get a good shot from above without standing on the table and I didn't think that was a good idea!  I put chocolate eggs in the bowl in the centre.

Hopefully my next post will be of the finished baby quilt!

Well the table will look nice

It's just a shame there's no one around to see it!  There wasn't a day we could all get together because of work or other plans.  I bet they'll all still want chocolate eggs though won't they?!  We'll have our dinner whenever we can squeeze it in.  Christmastime at this rate ha ha!

                                                                    I made tablemats.

I made decorations.

I've still got fabric so I'll keep on making things.  Perhaps they'll make an appearance next year!

I went to my crochet class and was encouraged to make granny square blocks so I've bought Granny Square Academy Digital – Shelley Husband Crochet and made a start.  I can now vaguely read a pattern now so that was useful.  I'm not a fan of granny squares.  I'd rather make something I can use but I'll finish these and see what I can do with them. 

I haven't touched the Land Down Under baby quilt.  I am going to be very busy panicking very soon!

Just in time for Winter

I finished my shawl!  Minnie is very glad because she wasn't a fan of the yarn rubbing on her ear while I was crocheting!

Shawl looks great.  Shame about the model ha ha!

My biggest problem now is that I'm going to crochet class tonight and now I have nothing to work on.  This means I'll be starting something new!  Why did I do this to myself???

I embroidered this little cutie ready for Easter.

I finished my napkins.  I looked at a few tutorials to get an idea of size and to remind me how to do mitred corners and all the pictures I saw had the napkins artfully and creatively draped.  I attempted to do the same and it just looked like my napkins had already been used and scrunched up.  So nice neat rectangles it is!

I've quilted tablemats and have a couple left to hand stitch the binding on.  I'm not sure I have time to do any more Easter projects but my table will look nice!  I haven't touched the baby quilt.  Yikes!  When is May?

Centre of the Land Down Under

I finished sewing the centre part of the quilt.  It's huge!  I've sewn a lot of flying geese together already so I'm going to start adding those soon.  I did consider doing a more simple border but when I put the flying geese up on the design wall they did look good so that was an easy decision.

I've been stressing over not being able to quilt the Land Down Under quilt because the camera quilt is still up on the frame.  I also want to use the frame to make table mats for my Easter table so the camera quilt had to temporarily come off.

I quilted as much as I could to stabilise it for when it goes back up on the frame.  This will actually make it less back breaking to bury the billion threads I have created because of the custom quilting.  Who knows when it'll go back up on the frame!

I've been cracking on with my shawl and I've almost finished the ball of yarn!  I've decided to make it bigger so it's more useable.  It would be a shame to scrimp after all that work.  Mary from Patch n Quilt didn't have another ball of the same colour but she sent me over to Foodworks and I snagged the last ball there.  Phew!  Who'd have thought they'd have yarn in the Supermarket!

Apparently Easter is just around the corner so I'm going to have to rush and get things finished.  It won't matter if I don't finish everything I have planned but I do want to get the table things finished.  And May, and the deadline to finishing The Land Down Under quilt is rapidly approaching!