Pigs and Progress

I apologise for the absolutely spastic looking photos. 

We have a new addition to our family.  One we are going to eat.  Possibly called "Little Pig", she is about 6weeks old and very cute - although not so cute when running wild in the paddock next door after escaping her pen and we needed to catch her in the pooring rain and she attacked us.  Long story!

On the sewing front, I have spent the last week playing around with some foundation paper piecing - a russian nesting doll pattern from etsy shop "BubbleStitch".  Very cute, pretty easy (although I do struggle to match up the joins when putting together sections - even though I do the pin through the seam all the way along... and pin, pin, pin).  A few rounds of borders later, using some of my newest favouritest fabric... and now I have a cot/play quilt for a friends new baby.

Also some shots of a finished Block Two of Swoon:

And an outdoor, holdey-upey shot of my Buggy Barn Courthouse Stars quilt (thanks to the husband who avoided being in the shots at all cost).

Talking about the husband, he has finished his shed and got all the council OK's.  And a parting shot of my garden - we have three raised beds which are responsible for all the produce.  The cows in the background belong to the neighbours.

The Return of the Machine

No, not another terminator movie, but today I picked up my lovely sewing machine from the repair man.  Yay!  It should have gone back to it's usual, perfect stitching... will find out over the next few days. 

On the vegetable front... do you think it is actually possible to turn into a tomato?  For all those people who have had poor crops this year due to the really weird weather, well, mine have just gone into overdrive.  I've been freezing some whole to use in stews and things over winter, and slow roasting some with onions, garlic and whatever else I throw in - which I'll also freeze in family sized portions to use for pizza topping, spaghetti sauce and whenever a recipe calls for tomato puree.  Any other suggestions?  It's just gone crazy!

WIP Friday???

How on earth did it manage to get to Friday without me realising??  I realise I haven't had any posts for a while, but not because I haven't been busy doing things.

Firstly, Block Two of My Tweets - fused awaiting the return of my sewing machine to complete the blanket stitch:

Next up, Block 4 of Gail Pan's Bluebirds and berries BOM

And lastly, individual pieces attached to my design wall in an unsewn sort of manner, Block Two of Swoon.

And just to show that I do things other than sew sometimes, some of the produce from my garden after a frenzy of picking...

The beetroot is now all cooked up and doing it's thing with the vinegar, these tomatoes are still doing a little bit more ripening (but the last lot I picked are in the oven being slow roasted with garlic, courgette and onion and will be part of dinner tonight), the beans were frozen free flow so all ready to reappear at a moments notice and we are slowly working our way thruogh the rest of the courgettes and onions.  The vege bed is still laden with everything... YUM!

Linking up with Lee at Freshly Pieced and BOM's away at What a Hoot.