Time to catch up...

Where has the time gone?  I have been very neglectful of my blog lately....so many quilts to do, dogs to walk, floors to clean, washing to hang out....no superwoman me!!!  I hope I'm not the only one who wonders how to cope with the day ahead!! Where do I start...
Well, I am delighted to have so many quilts to do and that my customers trust their beautiful creations to me. 
Look at this huge one...a lovely autumnal maple leaf design

Hopefully it will be arriving at its destination in South Wales this morning! 
I have been doing a bit of my own sewing this last couple of weeks too...using some new and vintage fabrics I have been collecting.  These two pieces will be cushions I think..

There are four stars with a piece of embroidery in the centre cut from an old tablecloth....the first picture is made up of strips of fabrics to create the heart.

I have found quite a few vintage fabrics lately from various places...I just love the feedsacks from the 1930s and 1950s and the tiny ditsy prints you can find on older fabrics..

Aren't they lovely!  Sorry, I am a complete banana when it comes to fabrics!!!  Obsessive behaviour!!!  They would really suit mini quilt projects..talking of which, I sent my candlemat off earlier in the week for the swap.  I wonder if the lady has received it yet...exciting!  Anyway enough rambling, these fabrics will be for sale on my blogshop which we are setting up soon, so keep looking! 
Back to another quilt on my machine now...got to keep the wolf from the door!!! (or maybe that should be got to feed the wolves inside the door!!)  Until later.....

More quilts....

Had some lovely visitors yesterday who brought two quilts to be done....but after they left it took me sometime to get going with my work!  The opportunity to chat and share stories is wonderful!
Today, I must finish a beautiful jelly roll quilt which is on Gerty (my longarm machine!)..I have been very busy custom quilting a japanese style quilt by Susan Briscoe who is publishing her next book (clever lady) for the couple of weeks before our holiday, so it is time to catch up with the edge to edge jobs!  Hope these two won't want to join in...

Back to business....

We have had a lovely two weeks holiday at home!  Now, I have loads to catch up with.....
Before the holiday I signed up to a Candlemat swap from the Quilting Bloggers site...it will be the first swap I have done, so I am quite excited about being a part of it.  I have already started my candlemat and I have been given the name of the recipient who lives in the USA.Colours chosen and cut...

Piecing in progress                          

I have decided to add a little embroidery too and to hand quilt it....

My dining room has become the new sewing room.

I have been collecting some vintage fabrics in the last couple of months...just love the feel and smell of them.  My favourites are the feedsacks from the States, but some are difficult to get hold of.  I have had a few deliveries lately too from France and Germany...

And my collection of hand embroidered cloths is growing....

And the green floral  fabric has been rescued from an old French eiderdown from around the 1950s........

To go with the older fabrics I have ordered some lovely Lecien faded florals too and these will soon be on my website.....