Ring a Ring a Roses

Just a quick post to show you all how the patchwork is coming along. I love turning the roses over and seeing the handwriting on the cards.

We keep on trying to work out if we could put a plain row around the centre rose but we don't think it's possible. The tessellation (I love that word) then doesn't seem to work.

I'm also trying to decide on whether to have set patterned roses like the ones in the picture for just the centre of the quilt and then have the rest as just mix and match ones.

I'm going to try and do one and see what it looks like and if I can cope with it...I do like my symmetry as many of you know.

Hope you like the pics.

xBx

P. S. If any one has any old cards they don't mind being chopped up please feel free to donate them to me. I'm running out!

Patchwork

Hello all, 
Not much baking in bed has gone on recently. We've been trying to get over and get stronger from the nasty bug that struck me after the wedding. We're getting there. Slowly but surely.

I'm very fed up of having to spend so much time in bed recently. I spent all of last week in bed passing a kidney stone that eventually popped out. I fear the is another one on the way though.
Anyway, I can't manage much baking at the moment so Mr S and I tried to think of something I could do while lying flat in bed. We saw a lovely film the other day where there was a gorgeous heirloom quilt and it inspired me to have a go.

So here are the startings of our heirloom quilt. I love it already. It's made up of old bits of clothing. This flower is from some old pyjamas and a pair of old boxers of the husband!

I do love making do and mending...

Bespoking a Waistcoat

Hello all,
I haven't posted on here for ages it seems. Life has taken a bit of a blip.

We got married and had a beautiful honeymoon. Then we came home, I passed a kidney stone and then got the most awful stomach infection that I'm still struggling to get over. I genuinely didn't know a tummy bug could make you so ill.

I've been pretty much housebound since June apart from a horrid  time spent in an isolation room in hospital. To add to all that my poor daddy has been in and out of hospital 3 times with his poorly kidneys too. Life just needs to go back to normal.

Anyway, enough moaning. I just wanted to show you something I'd done while stuck in bed. A while  ago the husband and I found a waistcoat for our friend Adam.

It needed a bit of tlc so I rebuttoned it and had a go at sewing some tiny writing on it.

It's not my best sewing as my hands are super shaky at the mo but hopefully he likes it and it looks a little bit different to a 'normal' waistcoat.

What do you think?

Love Love xBx