Monday 21 May 2012

Double act!

On Thursday, Terri (aka Mish Mish Mama aka fabulous human being) and I got together to do some sewing.  We'd decided to sew a quilt for the Siblings Together Charity which is rocking the online quilting world at the moment, and a jolly good cause it is too.   Click here to read about it on Lynne's blog, Lily's quilts, if you haven't already.

The vague plan was to sew a quilt in a day - which didn't really happen!  Here's the rough timeline of events:

9.00 Lovely Felix goes to the childminder
9.30 Terri arrives - hot drinks and chat and Internet fabric shopping
9.32  James spots delicious homemade cookies that Terri has brought
10.30 Decide we need a plan, look at available fabrics
10.32 James caves and asks for a cookie
11.00 Settle on using Terri's Pips charm pack as basis for a log cabin quilt, rummage in fabric stashes for coordinates
11.15 Hot drinks, chat, James (working from home!) appears and eats another cookie
11.30 Start cutting and sew a test block (that looks like this), chat

(or was it this one??)


12.00 Terri sewing inner parts of blocks, chain-piecing styley, Ceri slicing strips of fabric for outer logs, chat
13.30 Lunch, chat, James eats a cookie
14.00 Back to it!  Stitch Stitch Stitch - look, we're hard at work, honest!

16.00 Politely request that James goes and retrieves Felix, which he does, in exchange for a cookie - (yes, that's four!)  Fifteen blocks down, 5 to go

17.00 Look, twenty blocks! Terri has to leave for her brood, so we call it a day.

Yep, they need sewing together, quilting and binding, but hopefully we have a plan to achieve that before the Quilting Retreat in two weeks time..

A very satisfying day, in many ways....and we'll have to have another one to get this finished, darn it :)

x

9 comments:

  1. This looks so civilised! But shouldn't James have been providing the tea and cookies!?

    Love what you have done so far!

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  2. Oh brilliant!
    Terri look at all your hair! OK you will have already, but loving the pixie crop!!!
    Oh and James, stop eating the bics and do something with that garden ;)

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  3. LOL Looks like so much fun! (and now we know James' kryptonite...) Great work lovely ladies :-)

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  4. I so wish I lived closer! I could out eat James in the cookie department.

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  5. What a productive day you had! Like susan, wish I lived closer and you could have a finished quilt in no time!

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  6. Well done you girls.Looks like you had lots of fun and cookies....

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  7. Aw you two are ace! Beautiful blocks! I think James secretly wanted to join in all the fun! Jxo

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  8. Looks great so far! Next time I suggest you padlock the cookies away ;o)

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  9. Sounds like a SUPER day!!! And what an achievement - I can't believe you did so much (and had time to eat cookies too)!!! It looks great so far - can't wait to see it when it's all quilted and bound.....
    Carly
    x

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