Flying Cabbages?

Or perhaps Cabbage Geese? However you say it, this little quilt is delightful!

 A surprise from my dear friend Cathy of Cabbage Quilts, this little piece of deliciousness landed at my place this week. Little did I know when I saw it on her blog that it was already on it's way to me! What a wonderful surprise and I just adore it. It will probably live on my mini quilt wall, but at present seems to be following me around the house so I can gaze at it. Thanks Cathy...it is treasured!

Here are some pics of the projects I made last weekend...

a pattern I saw on Molly Flanders and managed to track down (thanks M!)...

more flying geese in a lap quilt for Mum...

beautiful Bliss in a quickie quilt!

It is cool and rainy here...time to clean the pantry & feed my son and some mates from uni.

Hope you are having a good long weekend!

Cardygirl xx

Bits & pieces

A pincushion for the Christmas present box...out of scraps...yes, that is a paw ready to flick it onto the floor!

Doing bits & pieces to put aside for gifts...a very pink coin quilt...
lovely for a baby girl...and a spool from Nundle to hold some binding

and a gift for a 21st...shop bought...but look at the cute ladybird on the wrapping!

Cardygirl xx

Sweet things...

A day free from paid employment...get the essentials done...washing, cleaning...what is for dinner? Now some time to play...
Chookyblue mentioned a little sampler of mine she saw...it is 1.5 "x 2"...done on a silk gauze...before my eyesight went! Maree might like to do this one!

There have been a few pincushions floating around blogland...my 23 yr old turtle pincushion was abducted by my cat... he was found torn & de-stuffed...a sad end for an old friend!

I have one my mum bought on a craft stand, not overly satisfactory, but it "does".

I have these two that I made, but can't bear to stick pins in!

A Christine Book design...
I think this was a design by Piccanini Patchwork.

Some sugary sweet pinks to do a baby quilt.
Cardygirl xx

When did that happen?

As you know, not a lot of time has been spent stitching here....
so today when I went into my sewing room, I had a nasty shock!

It was a terrible mess...stuff thrown everywhere...no sense of order...chaos ruled.

Oops...sadly there is no one to blame but myself...so I decided to take control.

It took some time, but I once again feel that lovely calmness when I walk through the door

...and I have to tidy up as Chookyblue is paying me a visit...yay!

It looks so much better.

I was also lucky enough to win a pattern from Natalie at Cinderberry Stitches...
and I have finished this baby quilt top.

So, a rather productive day...good for the soul...

I hope your day has been a happy one...

Cardygirl xx

I never said I was smart.....

A funny sewing day today...a few lessons learnt...
sounds ominous?

You know how it is, a bit tired from too much work & not sleeping well...

but determined to achieve something in the sewing room...

a recipe for a "stupid" mistake!

I began cutting out my desperately longed for Sue Ross/MO BOM...how hard could it be...

but , to cut a long story short, I should have reversed the template for the cog wheel when tracing on the wrong side of the fabric. So my floral pieces were spinning backwards.

I am deciding if I should try & get some more fabric or begin "innovating"...I have a nice piece by Anna Griffin that might be okay. I am just unsure as I wonder how it will affect the rest of the colour balance in the finished mystery quilt...might sleep on it...what do you think?

But I did achieve some things...

partially constructed baby quilt...
more butterflies cut out (they are fun!)

Cardygirl xx