Weekend fun & my fabric addiction

Had a long week without blogging, but back now :)

At the start of the week my husband too me to an aquarium for a pre-birthday treat (touched a rays nose!) so exciting like a five year old.

Had a fab birthday morning on my own, so dashed out to the local village, frustrated & unable to get a manicure anywhere, the fabric shop was open to save the day! Got some FQs and sample strips in the sale for my windy days runner & Christmas quilt for mum, yay birthday sale! Then had lovely afternoon with hubby & posh dinner in the evening (with much wine)

Bought some more sale strips in John Lewis, who've got some lovely Tanya Weylyn and Amy Butler pieces that I'll use for the runner.

Then had a super busy few days at work of meetings & big brain needing things for starting my new job in the next few weeks, not good when you're full of birthday cake...

But found the time through the week to experiment with embroidery from my new doodle stitching book (ignore the odd cat, it's very odd...)




Saturday found me back in another fab fabric shop in town & spending a small fortune on everything I needed for the runner, a scrap bag of woven reds and other bits that took my fancy (had to be done!)

So I had to do something with it all!





All cut and ready, my spare room/sewing room looks like a windmill production line, cut, sewn, ironed and ready all separately. Think I am up to about 20 done, only another 60 to go and then putting them all together with the blank white blocks, yay!

Sunday involved more cutting and sewing (after rejiging my plan as I found out I cut all the blocks to 10 cm not 5 inches - not the same btw if you're as thick as me...) but it'll still be a nice runner, just a little smaller scale!
After rescuing the second of today's kitty catches



I made an amazing purple patchwork peg bag! It's meant to be wonky...honest... Plus I did it without a plan & in about an hour and a half from start to finish, piecing together, hole making, hanger trimming, lining and finishing :)

Aw :)

After the amazing pegbag & swirling it around the kitchen at my husband, filling it with pegs and admiring that it worked functionally, I had an afternoon of cooking a lovely Italian lamb stew and bread and butter pudding. No chance I was getting up to anything after eating that lot!

So that was my week!

On to the next!

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