Archie The Wonder Dog

Over the last few weeks I've been lucky enough to receive some gorgeous parcels in the post and today I'm finally going to share the photos.  I'm not quite sure why it's taken me so long to blog about my wonderful post but I think the swap with Nicky and the fugly fabric party came at around the same time and there are only so many things I can squeeze into a blog post (I know, not much squeezing going on, that would imply short, snappy posts - not my thing at all!). A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to win Dana 's giveaway and this parcel of lovely Christmas fabric has been made very welcome - thank you Dana, I love it all!  (Oh, the shame!  I've just gone back to look at the ' I've picked a winner ' post and it's almost a month ago - I'm so sorry I've been so tardy!) Susan , let me know if you'd like a Christmas owl or robin for your bird quilt! I think it's going to work nicely with my other Christmas fabric

Sorry it's taken me a few days to post this (thanks for all the entries, I can't believe how many I had!) - Archie and I have been locked in negotiations about his fee for this draw.  Let me tell you, he drives a hard bargain!  In the end we agreed on a dozen bits of puppy food (free sample from the vet - they're about the size of a pea...) which would be used in the draw and then a mini marrow bone type biscuit afterwards.  He wanted a big one.  I said no - it was a small one or nothing and he agreed.  He even agreed to get out of bed to perform his task! Here's the plan...(sorry about the dark photos, the clouds are out and the sun is hiding!) Negotiate with Archie about payment for the task and persuade him out of bed... I'm not sure it's worth getting out of bed for, it's lovely and cosy in here... You promise I'll get that biscuit afterwards?  Any chance you'll super size it? Cut out and fold all the entries... This takes far

I thought I'd show you what I sent Nicky in our recent swap.  I know lots of you have been over to visit her but I thought it would be nice to show you some of the 'in progress' photos that I haven't been able to share and which I spent ages looking for - I knew I'd taken them but couldn't remember when so had to search all the folders from October onwards, several times, before I found them!! The idea for the cushion started when I posted my initial plans in the Pillow Fight Flickr pool and Nicky said 'Am going with Log cabins Helen but any of your great ideas are good for me!  Green - love green especially lime, olive chartreuse and blue - more teal, turquoise but  you pick cos you are good with colour!'  Very kind of you, Nicky, not sure about 'good with colour' but you certainly got log cabins and plenty of them!! For some reason I decided that it would be a good idea to make small log cabins with the logs finishing a

She brings me the most wonderful parcels.  Not much else, to be honest.  In fact she walks past my door at least five times more than she stops at it but when she does stop she usually has something marvellous for me.  This past week or so has been testament to that.  I've had four wonderful parcels in about 10 days, all of them fabric related.  Today though I'm concentrating on just one parcel as this post is linked to a post on another blog .  I'll share the other parcels in the coming days so if you're one of the lovely people that sent me a parcel please don't think I've forgotten about you - I really haven't! Now, you may remember that I've been making a secret something for what feels like months (actually, I think it might be months!) and I haven't really been able to show you anything of it.  You may be pleased to learn that I've finally finished it and it has arrived at its new home.  What is it?  I hear you ask...well, I'm not s

The lovely Lucy@Charm About You is hosting a fugly fabric party this week and while I'm far from sure that anyone will want it I've got some fugly fabric on offer.  Actually, I don't think it's horrific but it's not something I would ever buy or use myself (it's leftover from a sample I made) so this feels like the perfect opportunity to get rid of it   unload it onto some poor unsuspecting quilter send it to a good home.  What's on offer I hear you cry?  This is! It's Deco Delight by Fabric Freedom and you can see a better representation of the colours here . To give you more of an idea how much fabric there is here's a fugly group photo There's quite a lot of fabric here, the remains of 14 (maybe 15) FQs and it weighs about 500g.  Now, I'm afraid I just can't afford to post it outside the UK (and within the UK it'll probably be sent 2nd class) so if anyone overseas really wants it (and I'm not sure anyone wil

Way back in October (was it really that long ago?!) I (along with many, many others!) linked up with Sarah @ Fairyface Designs to plan our winter stitching.  Now, at the time I thought I'd been fairly sensible and realistic with my plans but I somehow forgot that Christmas comes in the middle of the six months from October to March and that I'm always shattered for weeks after Christmas.  And, for those of you thinking 'what she's really saying is that she hasn't ticked many things off her list'...yes, you're completely right!  Let's just say that after a quick look a few days ago I've made myself a dunce's cap and you'll find me in the corner of the room for the foreseeable future! So, let's get on with my update humiliation shall we?! 1 & 2 .  Add backs (cord?  Velvet?) to my knitted and crocheted squares to turn them into cushion   covers. I put them in a box, does that count?!  I also bought a striped fabric for the back o