My pair revealed...

I do love it when I can reveal all; and this month's Quilt Now holds the long-awaited appearance of a pair of cushions I made at the tail end of the Christmas holibobs…

Made with lovely AGF fabrics, two versions of the same.  Lots and lots of geese; honestly, lots!

This issue is again jammed-full of real-life friends, and on shelves this week I believe.

As for the here and now, tomorrow there will be sewing, you mark my words xxx

Don't you know who I am?

Rhetorical question.  Obviously!

Today the postman came good for me, but we are still waiting on the yo-yo, oh dear indeed!

So if you have your copy of Quilt Now, you may have spotted my Oakshott tumbler 'Stacking Cups' baby quilt, it looks so lovely in print, even if I do so myself…

And I am so thrilled to be in such great company in this first edition.  I am trying not to be biassed, but I think Katy has done a wonderful job, and the themed issues, if this one is anything to go by, are all going to look fabulous!

I would love to show you a few more shots, but all my pics were on that other hard drive, grrr!  I will show off more when I get it back home.

Don't forget, there'll be a copy of the magazine for the winner of my blogiversary giveaway, and it will be in UK stores from Thursday.

So as if my head didn't have to be squeezed back out the front door to get down to school, what happened next, well…

You see that envelope up there?  In there is a blogiversary card, from someone who RECOGNISED ME at the school gate!!! So everyone please wave hello to Jean!!  

Meeting fellow enthusiasts of cutting up fabric and sewing it back together in real life is so great, (woo-hoo FQR weekend here we come!!), but when someone spots you and is lovely enough to come and say hello, it felt a little bit mad, and very much lovely!

And just in case anyone wants to pick me out of the crowd on the weekend, (before I get my official swap tag from my partner), I whipped up a temporary one, and the first tick off my Q4 FAL list, go me!

After deciding on the way I was going with it, I did a bit of a swift u-turn, (after cutting my fabrics, sods law), and snipped a little selvedge 'Hadley' from my DS stash, fused and top-stitched a collection of bits and bobs onto white Essex Linen and used some of my Hemingway Design print for the back and lanyard. 

Fun punched hole, and job done…

Tomorrow, less me, more finishes!

Public Service Announcements...

I feel it is my duty to share the love from time to time, plus I have a blogiversary coming up, so if you keep coming back, more good things could happen!

Today I have been stitching up something festive and secret, but I can give you the sneakiest of peaks of something else…

I have a quilt hiding on the cover of this soon to be released magazine and I am so excited.  I am keeping the best company, and can't wait to get my hands on a real-life copy.

If you have not subscribed in eager anticipation, what are you waiting for!?  You need to take advantage of the most excellent offer - 3 issues of Quilt Now for £5, yes only five pounds; but you only have until Monday to make the most of this deal.   So get to it, you know you will regret it if you don't, and I will say I told you so!

One magazine that I have been subscribed to for many a year is good old Mollie Makes.  Just as I was pondering cancelling said subscription, too much wool, not enough fabric; they win me back! 

Now I usually chuck re-cycle all the junk mail as soon as I have opened the the plastic cover, you know all that crap no-one wants, never alone reads, but one piece of paper caught my eye - a free pom pom maker, (worth a whole £6.50 - more than the cost of the magazine!)…

So I stopped by Hobbycraft on the way home from work on Tuesday, and by the time I came back from after-school swimming, I had made 3!

All I can say is check out your junk people; sometimes there's a pearl, or rather pom pom in there waiting to be picked!!