This is the little bundle that is going to a little one very soon! A cloth book and the Chubby Chicks quilt is for the birthday girl and the chalkboard roll is for her big sister.

Chalkboard roll for the big sister!

Royal Critters - with sashing (not very well ironed!)

They do look cute!

My friend's Mum likes flowers - I hope she likes these. I love making these bags!! Pattern by artsy-crafty babe

CHUBBY CHICKS!  QUILTED AND BOUND! and YES, I have put a label on the back, but I can't show you just yet...... after tomorrow!

Yes, it's o.k. at your wedding but this is serious people.... I am WEEKS behind on my Civil War blocks!!  What's that you say???   YOU HAVE NOTICED MY TARDINESS???????  Well, be prepared to be amazed, as I'm slaving away in my sewing room right now!!!!

Here's Block # 18  UNION SQUARE....

A lovely simple block really, so I have no explanation as to why it has taken me this long....... (I could bore you with tales of how I've had colds and stuff and my son has had exams etc etc etc, but I won't!!)

I'm now working on Block # 19.. Missouri Star   .. not so simple I'm afraid, just now pressing and setting my block, photo tomorrow!

Now on to SHOW AND TELL of another kind....  my latest "toy" ......

CHUBBY CHICKS IS FINALLY A FLIMSY!!

The borders are on!!  I took this pic outside with the quilt pegged to the clothesline.... not the best place to take a photo but it has turned out quite a large quilt and I didn't fancy standing on the dining table to take a photo of the quilt on the floor:-)

I changed how I was going to lay out this quilt, therefore the number of chicks facing each way was out by a couple of left and right facing birds so I just mixed it up a little.  The original pattern has a flying geese border in between the white and green borders but I just wanted to get this one finished and I had plenty of the green so I "grew" that border out to 5".

Now I will have to go fabric shopping for a backing....  oh what a chore :-))

My method for adding borders is a mixture of techniques.  I use my wonderful book "Borders and Bindings" by Mimi Dietrich and the technique used by Bonnie Hunter here.  I never have any troubles with my borders by following the techniques given by Mimi and Bonnie.  The only thing I could have done differently with this quilt is to join the green borders on the straight, not on the diagonal.  They look quite noticeable in the photo, but once the wadding and backing is on and then the quilting done, I don't think they will stand out so much.


The other project I am working on right now is the Owl embroidery blocks...




























Happy Sewing!!

I am enjoying myself in the sewing room today so once I finished off Block # 14  Fox and Geese, I moved onto making some pinwheel blocks to go into my Chubby Chicks quilt.

I received a lovely Siggy yesterday....    THANK YOU    Simonetta from Grado in Italy.   Simonetta is very new to the Siggy swap and has been learning patchwork for about a year.    Perhaps some of my Followers who are also in the Siggy swap would like to send Simonetta their Siggy block.  Her name is not on the list from Annelies as yet, but should be on the next one.

Today is much better weatherwise than the past week -  thank heavens!  but I have started the day with a headache so not a lot of sewing being accomplished.  However, I did FEEL like sewing, so whipped up another little Hot Cross Bun block.