Eyes on the prize...

Here's it is...

I wouldn't let you down now would I!?

So by the magic of Mr Random Number Generator, I am pleased to declare the winner:

Trudi it's you!  I'll get it in the post to you soon xxx

It's been a day of ups and downs, and to be honest you are lucky I made it here at all! 

I am fresh from cleaning up the mess left by a vomiting 5 year old - I think she has taken a dislike to the anti-biotics; but on the plus side, my second parcel of FMF arrived - but never the twain shall meet!

I have made my selection for Katy and Brenda's contest, pulled a few fabrics for the next FPPFTT, and been tagged!  I will work on getting all that out there over the next few days.

But for tonight, I am going to sit here, watch TV, and pray for quiet night of sleep for all.

If in doubt...have a GIVEAWAY!

OK, only a little one, but my indecision got the better of me today!

I couldn't even write a list!

I chopped most of the Reunion layer cake into 5" charms, added a few extra fabrics to bring that up to the 144 I need for the twin boy quilts...

Not going to fib, I have kept most of the bunting, and all of the text slices for myself, but that's as far as I could get my head round today!

So I turned my thoughts to smaller things, the Fat Quarterly Retreat name tag swap.  Gathered a selection of bits, then faltered...

I think I need to do some stalking!  Partner, what are you going to wear!?

Then spotting that this would be my 600th post, and it's St. Patrick's Day, (I'm not Irish, but a lot of people are), I figured a giveaway would be just the thing; only this is as far as I got with the prize...

Sorry!

If you trust me enough to whip up another of Leila's scrappy leaf keyrings, well, it's only fair since I have been teasing you with them all week, then go on, just leave me a comment.

Just one comment each please; all you no-reply bloggers either sort it out or include your email address, if I can't contact you, you won't win; be a follower if you want to be, but that's just for my ego, and have faith that I will get it made.

I will leave this open for three days until 8pm GMT on Tuesday 20th March, then let Mr Random do the business.  Internationalists welcome!

Hope your Saturday has had a little more direction than mine; I'll put it down to sleep-deprivation, but little one is now on the mend, so hopefully things will pick up round here soon xxx

Lazing on a sunny afternoon!

Having been woken at about 3am by one poorly twin, I thought we were going to be in for a miserable Inset day; however the power of Calpol was enough to keep everyone relatively happy.

My car got a clean, before the immanent hose-pipe ban, two loads of washing made it onto the line for the first time this year and we made the quick trip to the Post Office before eating lunch in the garden.

Poorly one has done a lot of sleeping, the others have flitted between Lego and watching Star Wars, and I even managed 40 winks in the sun!

And so my sewing has amounted to zilch, which I will rectify this evening, but only after I have booked some Airport parking and travel insurance for OUR HOLIDAY!!!

Yep, we have just booked our summer holiday and I am so excited.  I now have 5 months to get myself some half-decent swimwear and a half-decent body to go in it!

And because I want to erase that gruesome thought from your minds, here's another pretty leaf...

...told you they were addictive!

Shoots and leaves too...

I made my Mum's Mother's Day leaf last night; I didn't paper piece this one, just joined some strips and used Leila's template to cut the leaf shape; I am not sure if it was quicker or not, as I had the fabrics ready and that cut down the faffing about no end...

She got an extra mini leaf too, but I didn't get it in the pictures; it was one of those brilliantly sunny afternoons where you had to point the camera and hope the subject was in the frame as the screen just looked black.  Definitely not complaining!

I didn't get much further, or better at the crochet it has to be said.  It's my left index finger that isn't doing what it should, but I will suss it!  I need a friendly granny to come and poke it where it is meant to be; I think there's one that waits at ballet, so I might have to look all forlorn and see if she takes pity on me.

Tonight though, I take on the flying geese!

Shoots and leaves...

The sun is shining, the grass has been cut for the first time this year (I love that smell), we have a couple of flowering daffodils, a roast lunch in the oven and my cold isn't so bad after all.  A good Sunday so far.

Loaded with Strepsils, I managed a little sewing last night; a trial run for my Mother's Day pressie, one of Leila's awesome scrappy leaves...

I had issues trying to paper-piece and fussy-fit(?) some of my scraps, but I reckon that maybe I won't need to paper-piece the next one(s) if I am trying to be so specific in my prints, otherwise, paper-piece I will.  It turned out great; thanks Leila, hope you are feeling better too!

I added an extra mini leaf, as my plain linen backing, although the look I wanted, seemed just a little too plain.

I foresee many more of these being made over the coming months; they are so quick and easy; well they would be, if I could actually narrow down which fabrics to use in less than an hour!

Then, at about 10pm I had the urge to try to crochet again, NOW!  Not sure why I wasn't prepared to wait; but a little YouTube searching and having dug out my tried and failed crochet gubbins from a year or so ago, and I was off!

OK, I didn't exactly make amazing progress before I went to bed, but 3 more rows than I ever achieved before, and still able to get the hook through!  Previous attempts ended up with such a tight cluster of knots that I thought I was doomed to fail forever.  Apparently not so.  I will do a bit more of this practice nothing then maybe try a little something later today!

You realise if I start on this, I will need storage pouches and a whole other world of implements; I already reckon my hook is too small!