Summer (!) School Holidays

Means less time to sew than ever!

But it also means trying to spend time doing fun stuff...

weather permitting!

We keep hearing how other parts

of the country have glorious sunshine.

Not us! Today it poured with rain again
as I drove to fetch the boys from Grandma.

Yes, you read right!

I am driving again.

Just short journeys to get back into it,

but it certainly feels good to be free again!!

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Last weekend we went for a picnic

in the fells.

The kids love it there

and we can sit on a quilt

and watch them paddle and potter around.

Baby-Kalico loves crawling around

 trying to eat the long grasses :)

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I am so behind on my blog!

I forgot to post that the week before last,

a friend came to visit

 and while she looked after our 2 girls,

I sewed up some dribbly bibs for her daughter.

Here the 2 girls are modelling my samples...

I didn't sew Miss-Kalico any,

as she's a weirdly non-dribbly baby ;)

But her friend has enjoyed testing her bibs out...

Even though it's exhausting work!

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Miss Kalico is now 9 months old and

has been enjoying the singalong at a local coffee shop

 where the shop owner

has kindly stocked some of my sewn items...

I'm never going to be rich,

but it helps make the school holidays

a little bit more fun :)

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Here's a parting shot

of Miss K on 'my' quilt...

 Nothing is sacred in this house :)

When I grow up, I want to be a quilt...

... said the rose star block

as she was pinned to her friends :)

Quilt Inspection

I'm still sewing these rose star hexagons....

I'd like to be sewing more in the studio

and on a sewing machine, but time is limited...

Miss Kalico has given the latest block her approval :)

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Lately, I have managed to do quite a lot of basting

and sewing while being the broken-legged passenger...

We are about 45 minutes from

anywhere 'big' so I can get quite a lot done,

as long as I don't look down for too long...

Well, Actually I Have Been Patching...

I worked so hard to get those bags made

for a local shop and completely forgot

that I have been slowly,

(very very slowly!),

working on my rose star hexagons...

3 more finished to go into this quilt.

Did I mention I'm making it single bed size?

Thinking it's for when Baby-Kalico

gets a 'big girl' bed in a few years time.

With any luck I will have it finished by then ;o) 

I only work on these blocks every now and again.

Sometimes I'll get lots of pieces basted while waiting

for a hospital appointment.

Other times, I might manage a few stitches

while watching (the rain delays

during) the Wimbledon tennis.

Somehow, as I try to do more

with my leg, I get less time to do anything else...

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And rain! Boy have we had rain...

non-stop rain. And when the sun shines

you can't hang your washing out

because a few hours (minutes!!) later

it WILL rain...

Yes, the UK weather is a sad state of affairs!!

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Little people, keep me cheery though!

Baby-Kalico is still toothless,

but we have had all the symptoms

(for weeks now) of teeth! :o(

So for a while now she not been feeling 100%,

but she still manages lots of smiles!

And she never says no to some fun food.

Here she's eating her favourite sweetcorn rings ;)

Not been Patching...

... I've been a bag lady instead!