CUTTING CONUMDRUMS.....

right,today has been a day of frustrations and tears....no matter how many times i try,I just cannot cut a straight line!!!!!I have tried templates,rulers,set sqaures,protractors and even builders chalk lines....and can i get a straight line???CAN I HELL!!!!so after much ranting and raving,i walked away from my machine and my quilt crying my eye's out ,and all because i can't cut a straight line!!!!after three hours of swearing and crying,i finally managed to cut one straight line..i tried to sew it straight and it still came up wonky....it seems that i am cursed with this at the minute,so for the moment i shan't be posting here,i need a few days off and a calm down and then i shall try again.......

The Mother-In-Law quilt

Evening,

Well today has been fun and exciting and unusual all at the same time.

This morning i wanted to visit my mum because it was her birthday....Well i made her the one thing she wanted for Christmas,a pair of handmade socks...she was well pleased with them!!Here's the funny bit........I made my grandmother a lap quilt for Christmas,and because i am the black sheep of the family she stopped "talking to me " a long time ago,and now she's spoken more to me in the last week,than she has in the last five years!!!!

She asked me to stop by on the way home from my mums as she had a parcel for me....when i got there she handed me a cake tin and a bin liner,i put them in the car boot and drove home,its snowing again and the roads were getting icy even at 1pm in the afternoon.....when we got home,i got the bin liner and the cake tin out of the boot and took them indoors...you could have knocked me down with a feather!!!!Inside the tin was a load of cottons,dozens and dozens of them!!!along with machine needles,crewel work needles and the most useful of all a set of curved mattress needles,just right for tacking the backing and wadding onto the front of quilts......

I sat down with my new book called scrap quilts,fast and fun,and had a leaf through the book and picked a pattern i liked and then forgot all about it and had a go at one of my own....anyway i decided to break for a coffee and have a look at the contents of the bin liner...i tipped out the bag and couldn't believe what the heck i was seeing........there was piles and piles of material,all laura ashley in all shades and colours,and the biggest roll of pale blue crepe DE chine,what on earth I'm going to do with it god only knows...but I'll give anything a lash.....

Have decided that alot of the laura ashley material is far too good for patchwork,plus each piece is big enough to make shirts and pyjama's out of as well as little girls dresses and trousers....but i cut some fat quarters out of them ready to quilt...lots of strips and triangles and squares...My lovely hubs has decided that i need a quilters rule with the slots cut out of them for shapes and straight lines....so he's going to buy me one as a belated Christmas present...

Anyway,i used all of the fat quarters cutting them into strips and squares,and triangles,and got to my sewing machine....and well after much mucking about i managed to make a chequer board design and a few log cabin blocks,and i enjoyed every single moment making this and here it is......