Plenty behind me and plenty more in front of me

So many quilts. One day soon I will delve into my cupboards to see how many are waiting to be finished.

When Steph and I were at Birmingham last week she bought some lovely fabric from 'Worn and Washed'.  Tempted almost to the point of thinking 'what the hell, I'll just get some anyway' I pulled myself back from the brink.  When I got home I searched out the two quilt tops I had already pieced.  The first, a little one was already quilted and just waiting to be bound. I added some more decorative quilting and finished the binding. It is only very small - about 21" x 24" I think but it is so lovely.  The next one was a lot bigger. Lap size. but I so enjoyed adding the extra decorative stitching

I decided to do an all over pattern on the bigger quilt.

Baptist fans. That was Saturday night. Now there are two lines of quilting done and my finger is so sore I can't even type with it! So this will have to be done in stages and I MUST wear a thimble!  The fabrics are mostly shirts but I can see pretty bed-sheets and some table cloths and tea towels too. 

The September Mini Quilt is finished and the pattern given out at the class on Thursday. 

complete with some hand painted buttons and embroidered apples.

Fabric and wadding for the last three months will be cut out this week so I'm going to be ahead of the game.  The pattern for October is written and printed and I started on November too.

The gas board came this week and put a new pipe into the front garden - 

Someone had reported a smell of gas but it turned out the leak was further up the road. They thought my pipe looked a bit old so they just changed it anyway. Luckily it didn't take too long and I was only without gas for a few hours.

Baking this week was a big plate of Florentines. Oh yum - they are so tasty (and so very calorific!)

Very easy to make too although they spread out quite alarmingly - like brandy snaps. The boys at work polished them off in double quick time. Ryan had two for breakfast so I banned him from going near the tin until everyone had their share.

Will came for breakfast this morning. It was nice to sit and eat with him again.

 We had pretty tomatoes

and eggs from the little hens with our bacon. The yolks are the same size as a normal hen egg but they only have little whites. There is no comparison with the flavour and freshness of bought ones. Will had sausages too and a huge glass of orange.

A quiet time followed and then John, Steph and the boys turned up for a cuppa. Ben asked to stay the night so he is cuddled up on the sofa with me now as I type.  He played with next door's children and some from up the road then came in all sweaty and laughing ready for his tea.  John is picking him up on his way to drop Max at the nursery and then we'll all go to work to start another week.

Next weekend is a bank holiday and I plan to have no plans. Well maybe some stitching will creep in somewhere and the F1 is back on after the summer break.  Maybe I should sort out all the Unfinished Quilts. I'll write a list of all the ones I've finished too. Then I won't feel so bad.