Coming along nicely :)

Linking this up as my April Finish :)

After my mammoth quilting and binding session on Sunday night, finishing 'Happiness', it's amazingly relaxing to be working on this cute little lapquilt for dear niece's partner's Grandma's 80th.

DH's Pétanque Summer League started tonight. Yes ... what ... Eh? The details are not important (well, it's not quilting!) but what it does mean is he is out every Wednesday night for the next 6 months or so ... who counts these things?? ... which means I'll get to have an uninterrupted and guilt-free weekday evening of sewing every Wednesday night ... Yay!!

Tonight, I finished the last 3 blocks of this 60" x 60" lapquilt and now I just need to sew all 9 together:

But before I do, can I please get your advice - would you add borders or say no to borders? If borders - what color and size? I'm not sure because there's already four different fabrics and the blocks are quite large. Here is a close up - each block is about 20" x 20":

Thank you, hope you're having a good week :)

Linking up with Lee @ Freshly Pieced - WIP Wednesday

Zzzzzzzzzz ... It's finished :)

Nearly 12 hours quilting and binding (and burying lots of knots!) on this jelly roll quilt today and I'm not going to kid you - I am knackered! I stopped sewing just after 6pm:

and sat down after dinner at 7pm to sew the back of the binding: 

and have just sewn the last stitch at 11pm:

I have lots to say about making this quilt and it is so special it deserves a proper post that I can keep my eyes open for and photographs that will do it justice. Please pop back tomorrow for the full story, what I've learnt and lots of photos.

But I said I'd finish this by the 31st and I have ... just! And I wanted to link up to Shanna at Fiber of All Sorts - A lovely Year of Finishes before going to bed ... which I will :)

Oh, and I did help DH with the decorating today - I cut the lining paper:

Happy Easter, Good Night and God Bless xx

Mid-month check in ... oh oh :)

Just a little post this evening to register my mid-month check in with Shanna over at Fiber of All Sorts. All I can say is thank goodness this is a 31-day month and DH will be out all day Saturday drinking Whisky at the London 2013 Whisky Live Event being held at this amazing venue - The Honourable Artillery Company:

He'll have lots of fun and I will be sewing without interruption ALL day long! I'll need to as I haven't made as much progress on this quilt as I would like:

Here's my pathetic effort so far:

It's not that bad really when I count the following events and makes since March 1st:

• Weekend in Chester
• Lap quilt for Joan
• Sewing Room tidy-up
• Ironing Board Cover
• Mutter coming to stay for a week
• Sunday Lunch and visit to family near Canterbury
• Baby Quilt for Kirsty
• Three iPad Cases

and tomorrow night, we're off to see The Lion King at the Lyceum Theatre :)

What do you reckon? Think I'll get this quilt finished by the 31st??

Plans for March ...

Have been hopping around the wonderful blogs I follow after getting home from work tonight ... oh, that makes me happy :) 

I don't know if it's the same for you but if I'm not sewing, the next best thing surely is drooling over reading about other people's sewing and looking at all those pretty pictures! 

I've been reading through all the different projects being planned at Shanna and Melissa's 'A Lovely Year of Finishes'. If you haven't been over to have a look, you really must ... there's already over 120 quilters who are linking up to share their project(s) for March. 

I missed out joining in the fun in February - it was a short month, work was crazy and we were away two weekends - I did finish a few things in February (but I didn't plan them in advance so didn't link up in time) - no such excuses this month!

I'm going to finish a little jelly roll quilt this month - here's all the lovely fabric just waiting to be cut up:

Are you joining in the fun??