Then again, maybe not!

This is the throw I was talking about:



And the sun is way fussier that I remembered. I think I may have to design my onw based on this.

More ideas for bags:

I went to Brum this weekend. Brum, you may wonder? Yes, Brum, Birmingham, Britain's Second City ... and I found inspiration once again. I couldn't justify buying the bags because I have so much material to make my own - plus no real use for them. But I thought I'd "document" for future reference:







In the meantime, I finished applique-ing all those little animal squares. Now I'll tidy seams while working up the courage to start the sun design for the quilted middle. I'll take that off a throw I purchased ages ago ... and we shall see how well that works. I'm thinking baking sheets and pins will do the trick ...

Google Analytics

I've been amazed by the number of alleged visitors to my site as reported by ClustrMap. So I've added Google Analytics and wonder what they will show.

Bear with me through my techie phase ... I'll soon add flickr too but then it should get better.

Google Ad-Sense

I've just signed up to Google Ad-Sense and I wonder whether that was a good idea. We shall see ....

Plastic Surgery - duckie-style

Our resident cuddly duck has received a donour beak today and is doing well.



There have been complaints about the not-so-seamless fit but the Head of Surgery decided to ignore those ;-)

Previously completed surgery:
January 2007 | December 2006

Happily quilting along ...

that seems to be the current theme here. Once I got my act together and assembled the whole thing, I could move to things I like better about quilting. I've rearranged all the animal panels along the grassy border and am currently appliqué-ing them.



And then, there is that small matter of the sun pattern to be dealt with. When I'm all done, I think I'll have problems letting go of it.

Simultaneous Engineering

Currently I'm working on two quilts at the same time ...



The Safari themed baby quilt whose receiver is due in late April and my lap quilt that is due whenever ...



The baby quilt is moving along fine now that I finally broke out my sewing machine and started assembling it. Until earlier this weekend, I had busied myself mainly with pinning and prepping, but now I'm getting a bit spooked because time is getting away from me here. I'll finish machine-assembly tonight and then I'll hand-applique the animals and have a think about the dimensions of the quilted sun that's to go into the centre. Wish me luck!

PS: as you can see, the most important thing's already in place - my label!