Archie The Wonder Dog

I'm just popping in to quickly post about the Fugly Fabric Party that's going on over at Lucy's blog Charm About You .  This time I've had quite a time coaxing my remaining fuglies out of the drawer (I thought I'd got rid of them all last time passed them onto a new home after the last fugly party but these two were cowering at the back of the drawer, half hidden in the shadows...not surprising, really!) and they've only agreed to come out and show themselves on the condition that they can hold hands and that nobody laughs.  So, if you laugh can you do it silently or into your hankie?  Thank you! Now, are you all prepared?  Get your hankies ready... Yup, they sure are fugly!! Now, in my defence the orange one (which is a FQ) was a bran tub 'prize' and the floral (which is a half metre of fugliness) was bought on-line and looked much better in the thumbnail!  I bought it when I was collecting fabrics for my hexies and I'd hoped it wou...

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...

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...