Time is flying...

We are in mid March, whatever happened to January and February, seems like I worked my way through those months! Maybe, I was just keeping my head down and not looking at the dreary weather outside.

Been having real troubles with my internet connection since the storms, it's such a stuggle to load a few photos for my blog but bare with and we will get there!

Last week I took a day off and took the train to Edinburgh with my friend Maria to celebrate her Birthday. This is a new railway line just rebuilt and opened in 2015, it's a shame it doesn't come all the way to Hawick or even on to Carlisle, maybe one day? It took around an hour to commute to Edinburgh as opposed to a two hour drive by car. Maria and I walked to and visited The Palace of Holyrood, we did the guided tour then had lunch in their restaurant.

It was dry but grey, we walked back up The Royal Mile and sauntered around The National Museum of Scotland, taking photos as we went, there are lots of staircases and walkways.

From there we walked in the direction of The Castle, we wanted to see the view from the bailey.

We have had a few glorious days, Monday being one of them, Kyle rode up to the hill to meet The Hunt, this was the first time in company for Kyle and Flo.....

My Granddaughter and I had a play day recently and made 'body butter'. Smells glorious, 'sweet orange and patchouli'

Of course a few quilts went home too....here are some with edge to edge quilting....

Lovely bright Kaffe Fassett fabrics....

This lovely Blue and Red Sampler quilt will be the Souter Quilter's (Selkirk) raffle quilt for their quilt show in June.

This Garden Trellis design quilt will be the Law Quilter's raffle quilt for their show later this year.

I'll be back again soon......

Repro fabrics...

Anna sends me quilts in the post from Lancashire, she often phones to see if they have arrived, once quilted I ship them back using Parcelforce 48, it's amazing that very often the quilts are back in her hands within 24 hours of me shipping them but always within 48 hours. It's not an expensive service especially if you consider other opions, like driving to my home, bus or train journeys, they all have a cost.

These two quilts went home to Anna this past week. I love the simplicity of the hearts quilt, I quilted different feather variations in each heart with a khaki coloured thread in the hearts and cream thread in the background, all free hand hand guide by me!

 I think that this quilt is to be a gift, more repro fabrics, I used continuous curves, feathers and a little ruler work using my good friend Linda and Jamie's longarm rulers.

In the borders I quilted feather swags and beadboard. I can't wait to see what Anna sends me next.

Sexy Hexies

Isn't this a beauty, it's bright, it's fun, it's all hand pieced and then appliqued onto a purple border fabric. Often the quilt and fabrics speaks for themselves, there is little that needs to be done on my part. I said that tongue in cheek, I used continuous curves outlining every hexagon and quilted a flower in the centre of each of the central rosettes using Metro Khaki Sand thread. It did take a while, but once you get into a rhythm, it's surprising how the time passes especially if you have some soothing music in the background. I did simple beadboard in matching thread in the border.

It's such a shame that Marion wouldn't let me keep it, she wanted it back, can't understand why, I could have given it a home!

Here is Marion hugging her quilt, she wouldn't let me keep it!