If I had a hammer...

OK, I do, and I'm going to use it!

This morning's task, (other than washing, ironing and a trip to Tesco), is to complete some change trays to give to my Mum later; a couple of her friends have requested some for their daughters for Christmas.

So in those brief spare minutes recently, I have been stitching up the squares and starting to get those tricky poppers on.

So far I have made 3 large, 2 medium and a pair of matching smaller ones and have just four more to hammer this morning.  They actually don't want that many, but I figured whichever they don't choose can be put aside for Teaching Assistant Christmas gifts and the like.

For those not hanging round these parts when I last had a travel tray blitz, here's the 'how'.

Thank you everyone for all the birthday wishes for dear Hubby yesterday - he loves his quilt, so quit asking for it!!  I even got a Flickr Explore for a picture of the front!

I didn't get to catch up an all things bloggy yesterday, and doubt I'll get a chance again today as the hubs and I are out to a concert tonight, so have a great rest of the weekend, and I'll catch you all tomorrow x

Back in the old routine...

Having spent half term, and the last couple of days, (yep, good old inset day), keeping the family happy with a trip to Legoland on Sunday and a full-on home-cinema afternoon yesterday watching Gnomio & Juliette, with binds and curtains closed and lots of popcorn, today was back to work, nursery and school.  Boo!

But it wasn't all fun fun fun over the long weekend, I did have some time to get down to 'business' and managed to quilt the skull...

If all goes to plan, I am hoping to do the binding tonight - thank you for all the helpful, (or otherwise), suggestions, I will show you the outcome tomorrow.

I've also made my June Bee Blocks for Fiona already!!  I just have the siggy block to make, then they can be popped in the post along with my parcel of pink Rainbow Swap charm squares. 

Remember all the little change trays I've made from the Sew Hip/Jojoebi design, well how chuffed am I to have many of them show up on Jo, the designer's blog today! She is such a talented designer, it's a privilege to be included.

Tomorrow I am off to Drusillas with the girls and nursery, and hubby gets to go to the Bluebell Railway with a lot of 6 year olds!  It's a hard life!

All change...

Poor hubby has the man-flu, and has been hinting for a while that he needs somewhere to put all his small change, so thanks to a well-timed Sew Hip project (issue 27), I decided to be nice...ta da!

Although my fabric selection, cutting and stitching were all interrupted by cooking, eating, getting 3 ready for bed and a quick phonecall to NZ, I reckon I could have got this made in about 30 minutes!

I used some linen and Echino, and a bit of hubby's favourite 'spider-pig' print.  Please note my shaky shadowy photos make my shaky stitching look a bit worse than it really is!

The pattern is simply a square, 3 rectangles and poppers!  I will definitely make more - I think I have found my calling!  There are adaptations to be made.

Credit for the pattern goes to Jo Ebisujima, and I've just had a quick look at her lovely blog and etsy store, hmmm, I spy lovely Japanese linen!