My name is Charlotte, sometimes known as Ms Lottie, occasionally as The Slightly Mad Quilt Lady. This is my blog, where you'll find me writing a lot about my quilting and textile arts and a little about my family's life in a small seaside town in New Zealand. Haere mai!

Sunday, April 21, 2013

School holidays are upon us once more.


I used to want to camouflage myself and hide, like this frog I found on the choko vine, but the kids are pretty good these days, they seem to be able to harmoniously play Lego (best toy ever) together for hours - touch wood!


In fact, I've already been able to cross off a few things that were on my holiday to-do list.  The 4 inch wide border is on my Creme Brulee quilt top and it is perfect - just what it needed.  Now it needs backing and basting and quilting...whole 'nother story.


And my resolution to finish two things in my WIP pile before I start another project really seems to be working for me.  I pulled out this little wall hanging I had been making as a sample of my positive/negative applique blocks and finished it off.


I had quilted with a design I liked, but had quilted right over the motifs, which I didn't like.  And I had unpicked most of it too, so all it needed was a little more unpicking and then a machine binding (so quick!) and some little hanging corners.  Another thing out of the WIP's and into the finished pile.



*Edited to add:  Must give credit where credit is due!  I think I saw this first on Raewyn's blog lovetostitch  www.stitchingfarmgirl.blogspot.co.nz  It needs a nice small dowel, the chunky stick I used is a bit thick and will distort the wallhanging a bit.


Easy!

I've also spent time in the garden and pulled out the finished tomatoes, planted lettuces and leeks and have been revamping a couple of flower pots.  I've chopped down and stump-swabbed tobacco weed (horrible stuff) and rejoiced in the rain we've finally been getting after one of the worst country-wide summer droughts we've ever seen.

So now I'm off to polish my halo and empty the dishwasher.

8 comments:

  1. I love the edge hanging method. I never saw it and will make it infuture for my small hangings, too. What a fantastic idea.

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    1. Hi Anneliese, must give credit where credit is due! I think I saw this first on Raewyn's blog lovetostitch
      www.stitchingfarmgirl.blogspot.co.nz
      It needs a nice small dowel, the chunky stick I used is a bit thick and will distort the wallhanging a bit.

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  2. Ah, school holidays, gotta love 'em. We've just had our first week back this term, after spending most of the holidays with both boys having the flu!

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  3. Border looks great on the quilt!!

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  4. Is your frog photo for real - looks like a photo from a calendar! Must be the flash settings on your new camera. I don't think we really get frogs here - not that I've noticed anyway. And ditto Kerryn's comment - that border is PERFECT!

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  5. Is that frog from your garden?
    Your quilt does look lovely, Anni Downs has a similar pattern in one of her books.
    Enjoy the holidays! Hiphip horay for lego, it saved my mind many times over the years!

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  6. Lego is the best....and now they play it online :) That includes hubby I might add!

    The new edge is great and I will definitely remember those corners as I do a lot of small objects. I'm up to 25 in my Dear Jane quilt and it is still fun :)

    School holidays rock - mine are spending a week with grandma! That's what I call freedom even if we do spend a lot of it fixing up a bedroom.

    viv

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  7. That wee hanging corner is a great idea of Raewyns. Your quilts are beautiful, so clever.
    How do you find the time with everything you do?

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