New Challenges!!!

Hi Lovelies!!

I am giving myself a new challenge this year, quilting! Bear with me, I may ramble a bit...

We lost my Grandad around this time last year. It was sudden and unexpected and a massive shock. He was a big man in bot height and personality and he space left was immense. His passions were family and Church foremost and he is incredibly missed in both. I have travelled with my girls a couple of times to Grandmas' Church and always been welcomed with open arms and the girls have enjoyed themselves, the children's area is well stocked with toys and silence is no required! It is however a little stark.

The Church was built in the 70's when those blue/grey bricks were in fashion and it's also a very large open space. There were children's pictures on the walls, but it still lacked something. Then I stumbled upon this on Pinterest. here was no pattern so I had to wing it.

I won't go into too much detail now as I plan on doing a post just on that, but after I had got over the stress and joy of doing the hanging, I realised I'd quite enjoyed it! So I joined a group on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/groups/ChallengeQuilts/ #pq6 and made my first quilted piece!

The theme was Trees. Little One had been given a book for Christmas, Day Monkey, Night Monkey, and I used that as my inspiration. I had a piece of fabric with slants on it that would make great trees and found some lovely green velvet with gold detailing. I had some wadding and backing left from the hanging and Bob's your uncle!

Can't wait for the next Challenge!!! If you want to join in, check out the website: Quilting Challenge

Pinch, Punch, First of the Month!!

Hi lovelies!!

Happy New Year!! Did you all have a good one? I'm afraid we belong to the 'not bothered' group in our house. We have only stayed up once to watch Jools and that was our first night in our own house. We had rented for years and got the keys on Christmas Eve. We spent New Years on a mattress in the living room, drinking a small bottle of Asti we had been given when we got married out of proper teacups that I made Him buy - because you have to have proper teacups with saucers when you own your own house!

How daft!

No, this year we were in bed for 10:30 and joined by the Little One by about 2am. Yes, I know, I shouldn't be letting the 3 year old join us in bed. Trust me I had it with the now 5 year old too! But the snuggles are nice and will be over far too soon. Plus, she's a little hot water bottle. If only I could get her to sit on my feet.....

I am hoping for some big things this year. Little One starts pre-school this term which will give me a couple of hours free. I really want to concentrate on this little blog and my business and get them up and running. I am hosting an amazing gig in my village hall which will hopefully fund an embroidery machine for me which will in turn fund other things. We are attacking the house, one room a month. We have already started on the new kitchen today and I have an amazingly violet wall! We have a lot of VW and Folk festivals we want to hit as well as using our family Christmas present from the In-Laws, a National Trust membership.

So, a few things going on! My aim is to post 3 times a week to start and hopefully build up from there.

Please check out my shop, Rory and Millie's Wardrobe, which will also be having a re-vamp, or have a look on Etsy; My Shop.

Speak soon!!!
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