New Life

So, the house move is now complete. The builders have been in to move a wall and I have now completed the internal decoration and there are now only 2 boxes of spaghetti (computer leads etc) still to unpack. Otherwise it's home. I bought a lovely pine table on e-bay yesterday and my husband went to pick it up this morning so hopefully it will look as lovely as I think it's going to.
We had a small study room off the kitchen and with the wall moved it has now made a bigger room and the idea is that the computer is going to go at one end, and I can have a table with my sewing machine stuff at the other end. So it will be like having half a work room, but still that's better than taking over the dining table all the time!!!

I made my daughter (Lucia) some lovely curtains from the patchwork version of Moda Seaside Rose and they have turned out really well, and they match the 'quillow' I made in the same fabric and she has it laying over the bottom of her bed (just like they do in the magazines!)

I have made some of the bracelets which Molly Chicken had on her blog and they look great, Lucia wants one for all of her friends!! I just want to make more because they look great and it gives me the excuse to use all of the buttons on my sewing machine which I have previously ignored!! (being more of a straight line stitcher generally!)

I am working on a few exciting things at the moment and will post photos soon (once I have found the lead which goes from the camera to the computer). I have a new bag pattern made and another bag made and I'm just finishing off the pattern for it at the moment so these will be available hopefully at the Malvern Patchwork show.

Lucia started at the Stitch Club in Chiswick a couple of weeks ago, it is a club for children from 8-teens. She has been really enjoying it, I'm so pleased because she is paying so much more attention to the teacher than she would if I were to try to show her things, they have made a pencil case, a pin cushion in the shape of a bun and a needle case so far so let's hope the interest continues.

What a lovely sunny day it is here in London, first one of the year really and I can't wait to get home to sit in my lovely new garden. We planted some tomatoes and sweet corn and garlic and french beans the other day (my husabnd said that we could plant things as long as we could eat them - do sweet peas count, I wonder) I

Will post again soon with the much promised photos.

thanks for all your lovely comments

Lesley