A hedgehog came to stay

and we talked non-stop for 24 hours (apart from sleeping)!

Thursday Catch Up

Trying to juggle umpteen UFO’s, deciding what to do next and getting side tracked has been the name of the game this last week.

Finn’s New Year’s Eve Challenge has been giving me nightmares as I know I’m not going to achieve even 50% of my goals.   I’m:

1. quilting the Pink Stars quilt (sister is in hospital as I type this about to give birth to the quilt’s recipient);
2. piecing together another Q4L quilt (No. 14).  Wanda at Exuberant Colour sent me a whole lot of strips which are brilliant for strings so I’m creating lots of red and white strings and having great fun sewing them together on this. She came home last week and apart from a slight hiccup in threading the bobbins and altering the tension to suit the fabric, she sews like a dream!  I love the dual speed button.  We found a 1/4 inch and quilting foot combined on EBay and that is now winging its way here from the US.  So once that arrives there’ll be no stopping me!
3. I’ve also restarted Ab Fab in between quilting Stars.  I seem to have gone off it.  It doesn’t hold the same excitement as it did before.  Hummmmmm.  Perhaps it will come back.

Last, but by no means least, look what arrived in the mail yesterday.

Oodles and oodles of fabric in all shapes and sizes.

I signed up for Quilt Pixies December Swap. By some flook I managed to get teamed up with Donna and wow did she come up trumps. Thank you so much Donna. I’m itching to get started, but my new no new projects rule is stopping that!

Quilts 4 Leukaemia Question

I don’t know if you all remember, but sometime ago Jenni and Jen contacted Quilter’s Quarter in the US and set up an arrangement whereby you purchased a gift certificate, QQ contacted me with the details and I was able to purchase fabric and batting for the quilts.

Quilter’s Quarter have stopped doing gift certificates and I have been searching for another online shop who would be willing to take over.

I have found someone in the UK, but before I take the offer further I need to know if you’d all still be interested in continuing with this arrangement.  I know some of you got a bit frustrated with the QQ set up and, to be quite honest, they weren’t exactly on the ball!

However, the new people are, and are willing to help so if you are still interested please leave a comment.

After all, its got to be a damn sight easier to donate this way than sending boxes of batting and fabric through the post

PATCH’AMI Expose

Click on the link below and look out for the Amish quilt which I voted for.

Le Patchwork en Périgord

I won!

Kristin over at Knit One, Quilt Too was holding a giveaway for her 1,000′th comment – it was me!  Wooo hooo – first time I’ve ever won anything in blogland!

Some soap, some tea and lots of blocks to make log cabins perhaps?

Thank you Kristin – they are great!

Quilt No. 9

Quilt No. 9

Originally uploaded by dordognequilter

“Hi Clare
We all absolutely love the quilt and hope it will become a
keepsake for Terri in the future long after she can put all this behind
her. It really is beautiful. She arrived home on Saturday shortly
before we got there: Her white count is doing really well and although
she has had to go back to the hospital almost daily she is able to stay
out for now. She is on a concoction of drugs and obviously doesn’t feel
well a lot of the time but was chatting and certainly glad to be home
again when we saw her. She has to have lots of tests and more chemo
over the next few months but was talking about future schooling and was
quite positive. This is particularly important given that one of her
friends died from an infection following a transplant just before Terri
had her own. My brother (her dad) took the attached photo and they are
happy for it to go on the blog.

Thank you again
Karen”