Wednesday WIP

 

Just for fun - the Happy Hexagon Trivet from Patchwork, Please.  I have been wanting to try this pattern for a while, so today I sat down and pulled out a few fabrics that worked together.  I'm not sure on the glasses in the middle block now, but I am not changing it.  I think I need to find a few novelty/Japanese prints for focal blocks like this. A few frustrations with the fabrics folding and getting caught up underneath the paper pattern as I was stitching, but I got there in the end.  Now just to quilt and bind it.

Linking up to WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced.

Simple, Sweet Scrappy Swap

 

Happy mail day.  My package from the simple, sweet scrappy swap arrived.  This round we had to make needle books for our partners.  This is what I received from Deanna who lives in Canada.  Lovely aqua linen, hand stitching and various scraps of Bonnie & Camille fabrics, a zippered pocket and selvedge lining.  She got my likes spot on. Also some lovely fabrics and pre-cut fabric squares to use on the hexy templates.
Looking forward to Round 3 now - which will probably start in the new year.

Weekending

 

 

• A little hand sewing to add the finishing touch to my sewing machine cover
• Of course there was baking - this time Best-ever Banana Bread
• And some reading - I am enjoying  this novel set in Australia in the late 1920's.
• A little blog hopping and  finding some new and interesting reads.

What did you do this weekend?

        

Today I am

 

 

 

• enjoying the scent of my first Gardenia to flower
• coveting this cookbook,  and I have requested the other one in the series from my local library
• eating Fruity Quinoa Cookies made from the above mentioned cookbook- they are really good
• drooling over my happy mail from Pink Chalk Fabrics, which I bought with voucher I won
• pleased I spent the morning in my garden - it has been a lovely warm day, with a gentle breeze, just perfect for gardeners and plants
• so proud of Miss B, who yesterday won all six of her games in a girls only Chess tournament and will receive a medal for her efforts

What are you doing today?
What is making you happy?

Weekending

 

 

 

• a new cookbook,  means new recipes to try out -  Caramel Crumble Slice and Swedish Chocolate Balls.
• one almost finished sewing machine cover - just deciding now whether to applique or hand-stitch the word SEW on the large linen patch.  Boy does a walking foot make a difference when quilting.  I think I love my new machine
• my first strawberries of the season (not from my garden though)
• the first passionfruit flower on my vine - lots of buds still to open, so hopefully that means lots of fruit to come.

What did you do over the weekend?