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Finally I have finished piecing my Hungry Caterpillar quilt on Saturday. I initially put the butterfly upside down but after unpicking, I got the top together! I really like how it has come out and so do the children: Baby Girl keeps trying to grab it to point at some of the squares and "talk" about them while Big Boy is trying to be protective of HIS quilt. Might have to make another bright quilt soon! I have ordered some bamboo blend batting for this quilt. Never used bamboo before but it is so soft that I will give it a try... later. I haven't done much more this week-end. Spent the day in Cambridge yesterday tyring to find the last missing bits for the Christening and Wedding we are inviting too soon. This time the shopping trip was quite successful, at long last. And tonight I cleared and tidy my sewing table which was in desperate need for it! Celine

My progress was very little on the Hungry Caterpillar quilt last week during the Friday Night Sew-In but I made up for it on Tuesday when I spent my day at my quilting group. I managed to get two third of the quilt top pieced and I really like how it is coming along, what do you think? Off to try and finish the last third now. See you soon. Celine

I received this lovely mini-quilt from Linda this week: It was from a designer swap where we have to make something out of a pattern from either Leanne Beasley or Bronwyn Hayes. Linda chose this lovely basket of love from Leanne. It is gorgeous and exactly the right colours to go in bedroom. Thanks so much Linda. Celine in UK

I know it's not Christmas yet but you want to check that lovely giveaway from Jenny at Elefantz. She is giving away patterns for her new Christmas quilts as well as lovely Christmas Roses fabrics from Robyn Pandolph in honour of her daughter's 16th birthday. Run to her blog to enter the giveaway before Tuesday 1st June. Fingers crossed. I finally spent the day with my local quilting group yesterday and I did good progress on my Caterpillar quilt as I managed to get two third of the top pieced. I'll show you a picture very soon. I was very pleased as I thought I wouldn't be able to attend despite booking the day off from work as Big Boy had been unwell over the week-end and we hadn't sleep much. Nice relaxing day in the end with a fair bit of sewing done. Celine

Although the kids were in bed relatively early last night, I didn't do much sewing. I started by writing my post for the Blogger Quilt Festival (thanks to all the visitors!) which took a bit of time and then when I went over to Amy's blog to link mine there, I was so tempted to go and browse around the festival so I spent a fair amount of time blog hopping... When I finally turned the computer off, I did little sewing, only framed my leaf and caterpillar but I did some cutting and planning for my Hungry Caterpillar quilt. I now know what I want to do, just needs doing now... See you soon. Celine

First of all, welcome to my blog if you are new and welcome back if you've visited before. I discovered lots of lovely blogs through the first Quilt Festival that Amy organised last year and that made me decide to start a blog myself to share a little bit about my work. This year, I will take the jump and participate in my first ever online Festival : I started quilting about 2002 with an applique quilt I made for my cousin's birth. In 2003, my parents were celebrating their 30th wedding anniversary so I decided I would make them a quilt. Even though I was still a beginner, I had my heart set on making a double bed quilt and it would have to be a double wedding ring of course. The anniversary was in June. After shopping for the perfect blue/purple fabrics in a few local quilting stores. Armed with John Flynn's book and method, I started cutting my first few strips in May. Of course my quilt would not be finished in time for the date but I was progressing slowly. My Dad had...

We spent the week-end at my Mum's house because it was the village fete on Sunday. Big Boy made the most of the merry-go-around. Baby Daughter even tried a few times. We saw the family and that was really nice. I thought I would also see one of my friend who had a baby about 6 months ago. I still owe the little boy his present do last week, I finished this baby book for him. I had bought 2 panels of Maisy fabric and had done one book for Baby Daughter for Christmas. This time I decided to make a concertina book/bed panel. I think it work better than the book I made for Christmas. I might take the first one apart to make it the same way, it is a lot nicer. This is the front of the book (when folded) made of the strips on the side of the panel: I used some red gingham and green spotty ribbons for the ties to attach the panel to a cot bed. The beginning of the story: The other side of the panel: When my friend's Baby #1 was born, I made her this ABC quilt (this is in French so so...

Look at the lovely hexie I received from Barb today. This one is even more special to me because I discovered the swap through her blog Barb's creations . Go and visit her to admire her lovely work. She fancy cut her fabric so that I could have a lovely dragon on the back. Celine

Finished my framed hexie for this month tonight. This one is for Kerry who asked for pink and chocolate colours and said she loved rose. I hope she'll like the one I picked for her. Good night! Celine

The title of my previous post hinted towards another bag story, so here it is with a few pictures!When Big Boy started to go to playgroup about 1.5 years ago, I made him a book bag with his favorites: diggers, tractors etc. I started with squares of fabric and made it very simple. I closed it with Velcro and put a handle at the top. While using it, it was obvious that the design wasn't great because the handle was pulling on the flap and the Velcro wasn't strong enough to keep the flap closed. So when my childminder asked if I could add more Velcro, I thought I would rather replace it with a magnetic closure then realised I would have to be able to insert it one way or another. I also thought that I never liked the fact that I hadn't rounded the side of the flap so maybe I could do that as well before deciding to have rethink about the whole design. So I spent a looong time at the week-end un-picking the old bag to transform it into a new bag. At about 5pm on Monday (it was...

Long time, no blogging... I have been busy, not quite sure what with but never mind. First I finished Big Boy PE bag last week and never got around to post a picture. I think he likes it. Here he is modelling his drawstring bag for Mummy. My Mum came and stayed with us last week-end so we had quite a relaxing time and I didn't do much sewing, although she likes sewing as well. She used to make most of my clothes when I was little. On Saturday I went to LCQ for our Saturday sewing day and started a Celtic panel. I only managed to cut and fuse all the pieces but at least this is a start. I now need to decide which colour bias I will use. I am not sure yet. I am worried that black might be too strong and as for purple/burgundy, I would need to find the right colour. Or I could make my own bias... decisions, decisions... Any suggestions? Big Boy started school officially on Tuesday afternoon. Daddy and I took him there with our friend and his "adoptive" granny. Although he w...