Progress Report

It's looking good!

Just got to make sure I don't run out of the black.

Think I'll have to pinch a pair of TOO's trousers!

More soon.

For Your Consideration

How does white denim look?

Oh - and Happy New Year! May 2014 be everything you wish for.

More soon.

Got the Gees Bend Bug

Long time - no post!

I've been busy doing other things, most of which cannot be shown.

I've also been cutting up shirts, corduroy and denim and once the corduroy was cut up got itchy fingers to start putting a quilt together. Black and pink - yummy!

As most of the pieces were very oddly shaped, I immediately thought Gees Bend.

So here is a record of my progress.

The first 2 blocks

the next 2

and yesterday's progress.

Unfortunately I've now run out of the dark pink and it doesn't look the same with just the pale pink and black so I've sidelined it until I can find some more dark pink.

In the meantime, I've got the denim bin out and am about to start playing with that.

Watch this space!

More soon

Summer is Coming to an End

and I'm feeling really guilty at not keeping my blog up to date.

What a summer it has been!

It started in April with TYO deciding she wanted to go to the ECE in Lyon so we had to spend a night and a day in Bordeaux so she could sit the entrance exam.

When the results came through about a month later she had been accepted on the Liste Principle! Top marks!

Huge celebrations!

Then she decided it wasn't for her and opted for a place at Bordeaux Uni 2 reading Sociology. About turn!

So how she's going to Bordeaux. Luckily one of her best friends is going to the same Uni so they've found a stunning flat in Meriadeck, which is really centre ville, and us parents have been getting together and deciding who buys what and who is going to pay for the various bills.

Then, of course, France being France there was the paperwork. Days and days spent on the computer filling in grant forms online,waiting for them to be sent to various email addresses so they could be printed off, attach the numerous attachments (don't ask!) and sent back to the office by snail mail.

Then wait. And wait. And wait. Biting finger nails syndrome!

Bingo!

And so TYO starts at Uni on 9 September. We move all the furniture in to the flat next Sunday and the girls move in the following Wednesday.

I've also been cleaning holiday homes which involves massive cleaning on a Saturday, followed by mega washing of bed linen and towels, followed by ironing Every Thing!

After all of that I may, just may, be able to get back to my sewing machine. I walk through my sewing room every day to get to the computer and I'm missing it.

Lets wait and see.

A+

Chaos Reigns Supreme

 And loving every minute of it.

The sewing room has remained tidy for far too long!

Lady in Pearls

This is for Julie and one of my favourite photos, even if I say so myself :-).

I took this photo about a month ago. I have a long strand of imitation pearls which I hardly wear anymore. When I do they get taken off as soon as I get back into the house and are thrown down anywhere.

This time they just happened to land on the cover of The Daily Telegraph magazine. Et voila! This was not a set up shot. Honest!

We are brewing up for The Young One's Baccalaureate fortnight. Got lots to tell you on that front, but am not tempting fate so you'll have to wait until it's all over.

More soon.