oh my goodness, we’ve moved …

 

… well sort of!  Our bedrooms are set up, the new house is a mess but getting there (we just need to move the piano from in front of the television in the living room and it would probably make mum happy if she didn’t have the heavy pine chest blocking her wardrobe - actually, her room looks like a set from Steptoe and Son!). However the tumbledown house is diabolically messy and there is still a large amount of furniture which will go into storage this weekend!  Oh dear, so much still to do :-(

I’m a complete convert to black - wow it sure works to make the other colours sing!
But on a cheerful note, I finished the amish-inspired sampler, which I have renamed Beth’s Sampler - after Beth from Little Women, the film of which kept me company until 2 am this morning whilst I sewed and sewed and sewed.

A view of the blocks - hey!  I now know the yellow starry block is called “Stepping Stones” - it really works well huh!  And I like the little log cabin beside it.
At 2am, however, I sewed two rows of sashing to one side - upon which I cursed a wee bit loud, and my husband’s sleepy voice called from the bedroom, that it was probably time to call it a night and come to bed.  Naturally, all I dreamt about was sashing and borders and class plans.

Now just letting you know, the N hasn’t turned into a Z - the quilt just looked better hanging that way over the garden bench.
Thus, I woke up five hours later, my head abuzzing with determination to make the most of the next 2 hours, and my dear mum sat down at the table with me and we finished the borders, wrote the 6 lesson class notes, showered and dressed, and managed to make it to the quilt store by 10am for the meeting with the owner.

I reckon this bow tie block may almost be my favourite - I could easily make a quilt of these - in different colours of course!
And it was GOOD!  I took along the finished sampler, the fat quarters I intended making Sampler Mark II with - “the Idgie Version” - the baby penny rugs (Lucia had her babies yesterday but still no names yet), the penny rug tic-tac-tote, the girly twirly skirts, and the dresden plate in the hoop.   And Karen is happy to promote all four classes!

The Sampler class will run for 2 1/2 hours for six weeks, the Dresden Plate Hoop for 2 hours for two weeks, the Girly Twirly skirt for 3 hours with an optional stay for another 2 hours to finish it off, and the penny rugs will be held as a 2 hours workshop for which I need to make a few more items made with pennies as samples and participants can choose which item they would like to learn all about pennies with.  Karen is also keen to start up a Civil War Quilt Diary group to meet monthly which she would like me to run - ha!ha!ha! This will inspire me to get back into these little, tricksy blocks!  Awesome!

I love the ribbon border - I love how it’s embedded in the blue.  
So all you dear readers in Brisbane - I’ll let you now when it’s time to sign up (the store’s moving premises over the next three weeks) and then you simply must come along!  All very exciting huh!

And I must confess, I just love my sampler quilt - I will be basting it later this week and mum wants to try her hand at quilting it for me - she LIKES machine quilting (strange but true) and will quilt it with 2 inch diagonal lines.  Nice and simple.

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