Round Up...

Whilst on the quiet, I received a nice number parcels to cheer my days up a bit; bee blocks, bee fabric, some shopping and prizes.

I gave some insta-thanks, but I am aware that some of you won't have seen.

Some cute Christmas fabric from the lovely Pin It and Stitch ladies...

Prize fabrics and a few more from Alyce - Blossom Heart Quilts, (well if a parcel is coming from Japan, it would have been rude not to)...

A bunch of stash essentials, plus wadding taking advantage of Justine's Simply Solids super discount weekend...

More prize goodies from Leila...

Blocks from Jennifer- Knotted Thread for my Stitch Tease LV Scrap Vomit - I am almost at the top-piecing stage - woo hoo...

And fabric from Sonia for the Siblings Together Bee, which I am pleased to say I have already made up into a mega-block earlier this evening, pics tomorrow...

So I believe that is everything now duly reported and recorded for prosperity.

Back at work was uncomfortable today, but I made it through my hours, and will be back tomorrow with my portholes cushion again; I may even take it to an important meeting!

You say tomato...

I know Arkansas is pronounced Arrgh-cun-sore, but I read it in my head as Arrgh-can-zus (eh Toto); every time.  Admittedly it doesn't come up that much, but with this month's Stitch Tease block being the Arkansas Traveler, I have been correcting myself silly for the last couple of days; that, and wondering about the missing 'l'.

The blocks are for Jennifer, one of the Stitch Tease newbies, you will know her better as the ex-Hawaii-dwellling purveyor of fine fabrics at Knotted Thread.  She's got a lot of lovelies in her shop right now including AMH Hand Drawn, and Lush Uptown to name but a few.

Anyway, I digress.  Jennifer posted this picture to inspire our colour choices...

And these are what I came up with...

I followed Lee's excellent tutorial and everything went swimmingly until I spotted that I had sewn one quarter piece upside down, obviously after I had torn off all the papers...

Gah!!!!!!!!

Hey ho, I never get on with centre points with a gazillion pieces of fabric, and these were no exception, but I don't think any amount of unpicking would have made them any better.

So these will be flying off across the ocean by the end of the week, and my August commitments are done.

I've also been planning ahead for my turn as Queen Bee in September, and I am rather pleased with my plans; oh yes, tapping fingers together in a world-domination kind of way xxx