Done...

Phew. It's done and dusted. Sorry about the crap photos but it's very hard to get good ones of quilts! I used a blanket binding for a special reason- Aus has a blanket he was given when he was born and when he goes to sleep he feels the satin binding between his fingers. It looks very cute :)

This is the first time I've backed a quilt with minky fabric. I had sandwiched it all together and then found out that you need to iron on some fusible interfacing to stop the minky from stretching. Bah! I considered just continuing with it anyway but eventually decided to take it apart and use the interfacing. I'm happy I did but have you got any idea how hard it is at 37 weeks pregnant to be on the floor trying to pin the bloody thing together!? I was puffing by the end!
Today I'm making some more little willy tents and also going to try this baby snuggler pattern. Can someone tell me how to print the bloody thing out so it's the right size? It keeps coming out way too small!
10 days to go...

Finally, my sister's quilt

It's taken so long but here it is, my sister's 21st birthday quilt. Not quite what one would call straight, nor really well put together. But she likes it and it took me about a year on and off to make it. :) I don't know if you can see, there are small photos of her life all over it. I made her boyfriend promise me that he wasn't going anywhere before I put him on it! :) (He's long term anyway, not just some blow in) Around the outside are men's ties cut and with a binding on each side.
So there you go, not great photos but I found it really hard to get the whole thing in the photo!

Very cool quilt tutorial!

Isn't this great!?
So many cool colours and it looks easy going by the tutorial I found at Hyena In Petticoats.
Brilliant. I'm making one as soon as I find time.

Actually I've got little to no time at present. Trying my best to make toys for the orphans, which I'll show you some photos soon. Looking after Aussie Bob and working. I was meant to work today but I woke up with the worst back pain! I felt like I'd been run over with a truck!
Also been making birds and need to make some Toadstools for my first swap. I've joined swap-bot. So we'll see how all that goes.
I'm also doing some decorations for my sisters birthday party in august and trying to finish her present. Which I'm not talking about on here because she reads this blog. She'll be pretty happy with it I think.
I also need to sit down and write out a tutorial on how to use ebay. A local learning centre asked me if I'd run a course on how to use it to buy and sell- because I'm an ebay junkie. I can't go a month without having a parcel or ten on their way to me. I thinks it's more just the excitement of getting something in the mail!

And I've just been informed by J that he's organised a babysitter for tomorrow night so that we can go out to dinner. :) I love my J!