Happy fathers' day!

This is the card I made for my dad. It was inspired by one I saw online. I usually make cards using Forever Friends cutouts and the like, so this was a realy departure for me. It was so fun to try something new. We had lunch out yesterday en famille, as my parents are at a christening today. My mum made this beautiful wall-hanging for the baby:

In other news, another part of my prize for the Popular Patchwork competition has arrived: a Lisa Lam bag and her latest book:

The book is great; there are a few things in there that I would never make, like bicycle paniers (sp?) but she takes you through all the mechanics of making bags, like attached hardware, piping the edges, putting in pockets, so it's a really useful read.

And my fabrics came from Abakhan. Remember I won the chance to make my idea for a jubilee project on a budget over at Lily's Quilts? Well now the fabrics have come, so I can make a start on putting it together. Here are the materials I ordered:

For just under £20 (well, I got them for free for my win!) I got 2 metres 4oz Wadding 137cm 54", 1 metre Sheeting Red 230cm, 1 metre Sheeting Royal Blue 230cm, 1 metre Plain Polyester White 185cm, 1 metre Plain Poly Blue 112cm, Snap Fasteners Nickel 15mm. So I am off now to go and design and make my little project, and there will be a tutorial at the end :)

Catch-up time!

Oh my goodness! I have been such a bad blogger :( I'm sorry guys! I have just had so much going on! First it was Mother's Day, and I spent the Friday night and Saturday trying madly to get my mum's present finished, but I was very pleased with the result:

I followed this tutorial again (remember my lilac one?), but made it a bit taller so that my mum would be able to fit her rotary cutter in there as well. She was really pleased with it :)

And I made a 3 course meal, so Saturday night was cooking the caramelised onion and goat's cheese tarts and the creme brulees, then on the Sunday morning it was over to my best friend's for her little girl's first birthday. Here she is enjoying wotsits, cheese sandwich and chocolate cake at the same time!

Isn't she beautiful! <3 It's all I can do whenever I see her not to steal her away! Oh and here's the card I made her:

Then it was back to mums to cook up my lamb shanks:

They were yummy!

Me and my mummy:

And more importantly (for you guys anyway!) her beautiful quilts! These three are going off to Denmark to three beautiful children who I hope will treasure them!

And since then I had my job interview, which I posted about (I got the job, whoop!) then this weekend just gone was my mum's birthday so I got all my cardmaking stuff out to make her a card, and got a bit carried away and made about 8 cards! Then we went out for a meal on Saturday night, so no sewing then. Then Sunday my partner was in a tug 'o war competition for Sports Relief, so I was out for a few hours, then when I got back I made about 15 more cards, so STILL no more sewing!

Then on Monday night I just couldn't pull enough brain power together to do any sewing, so I sat and mindlessly knitted my way to finishing my first ever scarf! My first attempt at knitting a couple of years ago is legendary in my family! I kept starting with 20 stitches, and by the 7th or 8th row I'd have 37 or so stitches! My mum thought it was hilarious - she'd heard of people dropping stitches, but not finding new ones! But I finally did it, and here's the finished result!

Not a great picture, but you get the idea!

And then I think that's us all caught up! :)