It's too darn hot...

Beatrix Potter SAL update, Steve took the photo in the evening with flash, it looks a lot brighter IRL.

He bought me back, this hand-crafted loveliness the other day from a gig he was photographing and reviewing.

I ask you, what's not to love? Swoon.

Sampler Quilt Top

Just a quick post to show my sampler quilt top, I probably should've ironed it first but it's actually hot here for a change! Definately too hot for ironing, but ideal for a photo in the garden.

As you can see I'm a novice at choosing fabrics and colours and putting blocks together, but IMHO it's ok for a beginner. It's been at this stage for a while now, I just kept forgetting to blog it. I really need to get my act together and finish something up. Shamefully I have 3 quilt tops at this stage now, the previously seen blue trip around the world and a jellyroll, which I'll try to get a photo of soon.

I've not been in blogland much recently, so thanks for stopping by, really appreciate it, enjoy the rest of the weekend!

Gorgeous Gift!

Sorry it's taken so long to post, not enough hours is there? Just look at this pretty birthday gift from the lovely and very talented KarenV, isn't it a stunner? It was my birthday at the beginning of the month, since then it's been my BIL's and tomorrow is my neice's, all Geminis!

And the full package of fabulousness, my first piece of cute Japanese fabric and two shades of threads I didn't have in my collection:


So pretty and it totally matches my bedroom colour, this is the colour of intuition too. (It seems to be working as well, just recently my SO has intuitively known to get up and make the morning tea and bring me breakfast in bed!;)

Thank you so much Karen! I'm a lucky girl :) (I'm not sure the photos do this justice, it's hard to tell on this laptop, Steve took them because my point and shoot is dead so they should be good!)

In stitching news, this is the progress I made mostly whilst convalescing on AMAP's VQ:

And this is my trip around the world quilt top, also much of it progressed whilst off work. This is definately the largest patchwork I've done to date, it's a kingsize bed it's displayed on. Now I have to sort out the backing, wadding, quilting or tying and binding. Hmmm I wonder if I have any other internal organs I could have removed that require a long convalescence? No? Bit extreme? Oh well, I'd best win the lottery and retire instead.


That's it from me for tonight, it's taken me most of the evening to write this, I'm so slow! Thanks for visiting and commenting :) Hope you all have a good week!

BP May Progress

Another quick post this time to show the BP progress for May, still really loving this. I don't usually like showing motifs incomplete (I'm weird like that!) but I ran out of time on this one; being back at work really interferes with my stitching time! But I am grateful to have a job and a law library to go back to, even though they have slashed all our information product budgets whilst I was away.

Today we went to Slimbridge and I got to see a Red Crested Cardinal in the Tropical House. Photos can be seen here.

Thanks for stopping by, hope you all have a good week :)

Skomer

Edited to add a response to the anonymous commenter, 'Yes, these are Steve Burnett's photos, he is my partner and we went to Skomer together, I have his permission to use them.'

"Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,

Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not."

The Tempest (as was the weather)

We saw lots of these little chaps.

A few of these, short eared owls.

And most days, one of these, the little owl, my favourite.

I haven't been around online much lately, so apologies for that. I am back to work now, what with that and other calls on my time, my stitching and sewing has been curtailed. I hope to be back soon with a stitching and patchwork update. Thanks for continuing to visit, hope it's sunny where you are :)