Fresh Sewing Day and Small Blog Meet

If your'e not careful, you'll blink and miss 2012, it's whizzing by!  Here we are in July already!  A special month for us, as our daughter turns 3 next week and it's also our 5th wedding anniversary on the same day :-)  Not to mention the start of the Olympics and my father's 60th birthday.

But before I look ahead to July, it's time to take stock of what I have achieved in June, as part of Lynne from Lily's Quilts

After a wonderful holiday in France, I have managed 2 finishes this month, which are...

Walk in the Woods Cot Quilt

and...

Little Kukla Dolls Cot Quilt

I am currently working on some Flower Fairy Bunting for a very special birthday party, which I will finish and share with you soon. And  I need to quilt and bind my Ed Emberly Happy Drawing Quilt as soon as I get around to ordering more wadding.  Once 3rd birthday preparations and celebrations are out of the way, I also hope to resume my much neglected City and Guilds coursework; I have some exciting ideas in my head, I just need to put them on paper (and fabric)! 

Also linking up with:

So hello and welcome if you are new to my blog, it's lovely to meet you and I hope you enjoy looking at my work.

And I am very excited, I'm going to be hosting my very first giveaway soon...and it's a big one!

More details to follow next week.

Watch this space!

It's That Time Again!

Well it's the beginning of a new month, and with it comes the sunshine.   Let's hope it's the start of things to come.  But before I look forward, I am going to take part in:

Which is basically a round up of what has been achieved in the previous month.  And here's the bit where I get fancy.  I have taught myself how to make a photo mosaic :-)  So rather than rambling on about what I have made in April, you can see for yourself:

Oh and, most importantly, I completed and passed module 4 of my coursework :-)

And along with my new found photo mosaic skills, I have been learning how to use Touchdraw for the ipad to design quilts.  Once again, all thanks to Lynne from Lily's Quilts.  It's been great fun and I think it will be a really useful skill to have for the future.  But I have to say, even though I am relatively young (ish) and have been brought up with computers, I do find that technology is moving at such a fast pace, it really is a struggle to keep up! 

All in all I think I have achieved quite a bit in April, now the pressure is on to get lots done in May!  First priority - finish my quilt for William - this will mean lots of midnight stitching, but it's going well, photos coming soon :-)

And now it's time to get social; I am taking part in:

So if you are new to my blog, then it's lovely to meet you!  Please do become a follower and I look forward to following you back and getting to know you.  I have lots of exciting things pending this month and I very much look forward to sharing them.