Archie The Wonder Dog

At the back end of last year I had a sudden flurry of things I needed to make which made for a very busy December and am only now catching up with blogging about them! First up were 'under bed den' curtains for my eldest niece.  She got a 'mid bed sleeper' bed (an odd name for a bed but that's what they're called!) in the summer and asked me if I could make her some curtains for it - I said I'd have them finished by Christmas at the latest but didn't get the measurements until the beginning of December so I had a frantic few days of fighting with slippery voile and metres of ribbon.  They turned out well, though: I don't know why I had fifteen metres of voile in my loft but I have enough left to make another set of curtains, should her sister get a similar bed and want some! Also needed was a book bag tag for my youngest niece, to help her identify her navy blue book bag in a pile of thirty-nine navy book bags.  She first asked for a pink ...

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...

Hello! The wonderful Lynne has published the fifth post in her Christmas Gifts for Quilters series.  Click on the button for information about FQ bundles that are available from Backstitch and enter the giveaway for a chance to win a Hurricane bundle - good luck! I hope you all had a good Halloween?   I've seen lots of lovely photos of children in costumes on other blogs but as I don't have a child and I'm not an owner that dresses up my dog (he wouldn't let me even if I wanted to!) this will have to suffice.. Yes, I did spend an inordinate amount of time trying to work out how to do this quickly using some fancy editing before resorting to Paint! Archie was very good at guarding the treats that evening and it was a good job as I just had enough for the 50 or so trick or treaters that came to the door ( note to self for next year - buy two Cadbury's treat bags for the younger children and three bags of toffees for the teenagers - it's cheape...