Happy New Year!

And it is still raining... arghh!

Still, good weather for doing things in one's sewing room.

I have just one more seam to sew on my Courthouse Stars quilt top.  Which I am going to do tomorrow.

Best thing is that I will add some lovely scraps to my pile of scraps for both
the My Tweets and Bluebird & Berry BOM's :-)

Which is just as well, because I will need the design wall free to be able to have a play with these things.

You know, this carpet is excellent for hiding vomit stains... you don't want to know!

This is the beginnings of a quilt from the book "Modern Mix" by Jessica Levitt which when I saw it, though "yes, I have fabrics I want to do this with". 

These are the grouping that I've been rabbiting on about.

This is a range called "fleur nouveau" from Clothworks.

Templates all ready to go... I'm going to do invisible machine applique using
freezerpaper templates and a gluestick... works well.

I've just got a few more of the colours to do the first lot of circles for, and then I'll be plotting away how they fit on the strip... and probably will need to do a whole lot more circles.  But it's not so bad doing a little bit at a time (I'm trying to convince myself).  No, really, they are chill out sorta stuff.

Yesterday I downloaded a pattern for a ironing board caddy with thread catcher and removeable pin cushion from sew4home.com.  They have some really interesting projects, and I'll have to spend a few more hours browsing when I get a chance.  Now, I don't really need an ironing board caddy - although the idea is very good - but I use a teeny tiny board that doesn't really have enough room for such a thing - but tucking it under my sewing machine where it is easily accessable from my iron and perfect to hold my quick unpick and thread snips. 

I didn't make the thread catcher, but I did understand most of the instructions!

As far as reviewing the tutorial, I was most impressed that it had downloadable instructions, although there were 23 pages!  Lots (and lots) of pictures - so I'm not really complaining, and I printed it out with multiple pages per sheet, so only used 6 pages in the end.