Happy Easter!

Here in the UK, the clocks go forward an hour.  That means 1 hour less sleep tonight (boo!).

But it also means 1 hour closer to Easter Day (yay!).

Easter Day is a very important day to me and my faith.  I hope you enjoy your day, how ever you celebrate it.

I'll leave you with a few of my favourite pics from our recent visit to Mounstewart, Co. Down.

Happy Easter!

Jude xo

A Wonky House for Pippi!

For some bizarre reason, I was up earlier than usual on Sunday (must have been the anticipation of heading to the coast later that morning!).

Anyways, I had a whole hour to fill before going to church, so I thought I'd have a crack at a wonky house for Bee Blessed.

It only took an hour to make!

This was even more fun to make than the Pippi block! 

There are some lovely ones being released onto the market over on our flickr page!

If you fancy having a go and donating a block to Bee Blessed, here are the tutorials for the wonky house block:

http://www.unrulyquilter.com/tutorials/wonkytown.pdf

http://blocksnswaps.blogspot.co.uk/2010/09/how-to-draw-liberated-house.html

Well, tonight marks the end of my Easter break.  We had a lovely few days away, watching lots of films (Jane Eyre, Real Steel, Hugo to name a few!) and eating way too much chocolate and rubbish!  It was relaxing and lovely (the sun even made an appearance, in between the hail showers!).

Being the 'home girl' that I am, it's always lovely to get back to my own home, and especially my own bed!!  I have to confess to replying to a few work related enquiries today, but that's what it's like being self-employed.

Tomorrow, I'm going shopping for a new pair of jeans (I live in jeans but I've ripped an unsightly hole in my regulars!) and then back into the sewing room!  Wish me luck!

I hope you've all had a lovely Easter break!

Eggs-hausted!

My classes finished this week for the Easter holidays!

That means I'm officially off work until next Wednesday - Yippee!

Here's a little mosaic of some of the finished and almost finished value quilts that were made by my Thursday class.

My camera doesn't do justice to the wonderful array of colours in these beautiful quilts.

Aren't they amazing!  Well done ladies, and enjoy your beautiful quilts and wallhangings.

Apologies to my Friday class for not taking pictures of the wonderful placemats and coasters they were making!  I didn't quite have my brain in gear yesterday (you can tell I'm ready for a wee holiday!).

Anyways, I did manage a finish of my own this week:

Based on this tutorial.

This is a cushion for my 14 year old niece, whose bedroom is pale pink.

I just went with stippling on the back, and gave my button-holes a bit more practise! 

The auto button hole settings on my Pfaff don't give me a large enough button hole, so I have to combine manual and auto settings, which is a bit of a fiddle, but worth it in the end.

I hope my niece isn't too old yet to still enjoy a cuddle!

Well I'm going 'dark' for a few days now.  Mr Pfaff & my laptop will be getting a much needed rest as me and my family enjoy 3 days of playing board games, watching dvds & reading at the coast.

Have a wonderful Easter break everyone.  Don't eat too much chocolate (oh go on then!)

Easter Break!

Tomorrow I'm off to the coast with my family for a wee Easter break, so I won't be near my computer for a few days. 

I will miss blogging and flickr chats but I'm hoping to sneak my trusty Pfaff into the car when no-one's looking!

So I might have a few projects to share with you when I get back.

In the meantime here's a snippet of a 'work in progress'.

I wish you all Easter blessings during this season of remembrance.

Postage Stamp Mug Rugs

A few years back a friend gave me a sweet little bag of assorted 2" pre-cut squares.  They could well have been the ends of jelly rolls or such like.

I was looking at them recently wondering how I could put them to good use.  So play time ensued!

(P.s. despite my best efforts, I couldn't get the photos to rotate, so you're looking at them side on!)

These mosaics were yelling 'mug rugs!' to me, but alas, I didn't have enough squares to make them big enough.  

So I combined a few and came up with these ...............

I thought the two pastel mug rugs had a slight 'Easter' feel to them; great idea as a wee Easter gift with some chocs thrown in!