A Humungous Year

OH my, how time flies !!!!

The last 12 months have flown by (at times) in a blur. I'm no longer studying, 2 of my 3 children have jobs and need to be ferried back and forth and we sold our business. I've become excellent at nursing goat kids back from the brink of death, my garden has been renamed OMG and my house....well lets not go there.

Anyhoos, when life is busy squeeze something else in....I'm doing an online BOM from this website http://estheraliu.blogspot.com/ it's pretty cool, all flowers which I happen to love and I'm learning needleturn applique (mostly 'cause I'm a cheapskate :P). There's no photos yet but they're coming.

Dolls Quilt....[I love this]

So remember this ?? 

All ironed and ready to go but still nothing sewn on it??

Well it became ......

How groovingly awesome is this.

I wish I was a doll just so I could have this on MY bed. 

I think I would have to marry a Ken doll before I'd be allowed to have such a girlie quilt on the bed.

Anyhoos it turned out as good as I had hoped for.

Dolls Quilt

This is a mid-construction photo of a dolls quilt I'm making for a friends little girls [2 y.o and 9 months old] to go with their dolls cot that they're getting for chrissy. I happen to know they're getting a dolls cot 'cos it was once Bec's cot and it's been stored for the last 5 years. They also took her dolls house so we're really happy it's all going to a good home. Bec was all in favour of it.

I changed the mattress cover for the cot before it left home but the quilt set that MIL made was old and a bit yukky for 2 cutie-pie girls so I made one. Will now finish the raw edge embroidery on the flowers and lady-birds. The pattern is not my own it's from http://dontlooknow.typepad.com and it's from the 4 cushions pattern pack.

It'll be finished soon with stems and some quilting so I'll take a piccy before it goes to live on the cot