Stamps, binding, and cake, of course!

Hello Peeps,

Miss H has been stitching up lots of little stitcheries on 2 1/2 inch squares. She is going to use them in her Postage Stamp Quilt.

Hedgy and Leo.

Billy the Goat, and our famous Kiwi!

And some more coolio creatures.

The Mother has been stitching bindings on 4 of her quilts - 2 she recently whipped up and 2 from her UFO pile.

I will be showing them on the Saturday Shows over the next few weeks.

 

The marvellous Miss Bee has made another AMAZING cake!

Her eldest daughter had a carnival themed party. Isn't the cake just incredible?

And look! It is rainbow coloured inside!

Love From
Baa. xxx

*Wish It Was Saturday* Saturday Show: Rhapsody In Blue

Hello Peeps,

As you might of guessed it is not Saturday anymore... oops! Where did the time go? Apparently it is Monday, but I didn't do a show on Saturday so we are going to pretend that it is still the weekend.

Today's quilt is a table-runner, but it has been given a new life hanging over the back of the reading chair.

The Mother made it out of a charm pack. Isn't the fabric coolio?

There is no batting in it because she wanted it lightweight for the table. It is just tied to the backing with alternating red and blue buttons.

The final border is made up of the left-over charm pack squares that were then cut into 2 1/2" squares.

The backing is plain black.

Oh yes, I forgot to mention that the reading chair has been taken over by the Enemy. It is HIS chair now (the only chair he is allowed to sit on).

He immediately jumps up onto the lap of whoever sits on it and makes himself comfortable.

The Enemy will do ANYTHING for a treat, unlike me...

 

Cupcake baked by Flower.

 

...err yes, of course, Miss H, I will clean your whole room for you - just please let me eat the cupcake!

Hexagon Quilt Update.

Hello Peeps,

A couple of years ago Miss H started a Grandmother's Garden quilt with one inch hexagons. She was inspired by a hexagon blog hop, the adorable hexagon quilts on Pinterest, and the wonderful Aunty M. After about 80 hexagon flowers, Miss H stopped and put it in the WIP pile.
But then a few weeks ago Aunty M showed a bunch of her lovely hexagon flowers and Miss H was inspired to continue her hexagon flowers.

Miss H first posted about the quilt here in August 2013.

Miss H has now stitched 112 hexagon flowers. The flower stack is taller than me now!!!

She loves the fabric. Especially the aqua flowers.

My favourite ones are the green and red ones, though.



There is also two pretty floral ones.

Miss H has used several different white on whites for the centre of each flower.

Ahhh, I love lying on a bed of flowers, Heehee!

 

Miss H still has a lot more flowers to make. She is going to keep making them until she runs out of fabric.

 

Love From

Baa. xxx

Saturday Show: Rambling Rose

Hello Peeps,

Today's quilt is one made by the Mother. She originally was going to make it for Miss H, but then thought there was too much pink in it for Miss H, so she decided to make it for someone else. But then Miss H saw it and fell in love with it! So the Mother gave it to her.

Isn't it coolio?

And it has Miss H's favourite aqua. She doesn't mind the pink at all.

The Mother quilted it with wavy lines to look like a lattice.

The binding is made out of the same pink as the squares. 

And Miss H lurves the backing fabric - pretty pink roses. One of Miss H's favourite flowers.

 

Here it is all folded up.

 

Have a HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY tomorrow.

 

Love From

Baa. xxx

Sweet Tooth and Selvage Edges.

Hello Peeps,

On Wednesday, we had some friends pop by and give us some delicious cupcakes, yummy biscuits, and scrumptious fudge. They are thinking of starting a business selling the food at night markets around Auckland.

Don't the cupcakes look yummy? They didn't last long in our house. Miss H had to hide these ones for her photos.

Mmmm... Peppermint and chocolate - two of my favourite things.

Oreo icing made this one divine.

This one had lemon in the center and meringue on top!

 

 

There was three kinds of fudge - normal fudge on the left, Russian fudge in the middle, and passion fruit fudge on the top right. Passion fruit fudge was soooo yummy!

 And the biscuits were yummy too! Chocolate cookies and a chocolate chip one! Yum!

 

Miss H has finally found something to do with her selvage edges.

 

 

She made colour coordinated stars out of the selvage edges. Aren't they coolio?

She just needs to make one more and then she will sew them up and make a wall-hanging or table runner.

Love From
Baa. xxx

7, seven, whitu!

Hello Peeps,

The wonderful Christine of Patchwork Allsorts decided to nominate us for a One Lovely Blog award in which we had to tell 7 things about ourselves and then pass the award on to 10 more bloggers who had fairly newish blogs.  Actually most of the blogs we look at and comment on are well established like the marvellous Jenny of Elefantz and Nero's Post and Patch and Threadbear Cottage so we realised we didn't have 10 bloggers we could nominate. 

But we have decided to tell you 7 interesting things about us anyways -

1.  We all love chocolate!!!!  After all it comes from beans and beans are a vegetable - so it must be good for you - right!!!

2. The Mother was born in England and went to Kenya when she was 1.  Miss H was born in New Zealand and went to Kenya when she was 4 months old. I was born in New Zealand and have yet to go to Kenya - I'm scared of lions!

 

3. The Mother is an only child. I am an only child too!  Heehee!!  Actually there are 40 million sheep in NZ and only 4 million people. So Miss H and The Mother don't believe I am an only child.

  

4. The Boss was an English as a Second language lecturer until this year when he became a Science teacher. He put marks on the roof of the new laboratory on his first day. Woops!  Won't be putting so much sodium in that experiment again!

 

5.  The Mother trained as a Primary School Teacher but has spent the past decade homeschooling Miss H and the Geek.

 

6. In this house if you get cold the heater doesn't get turned on - you just get told to get yourself another quilt! After all, that's why the Mother (and Miss H) makes them!

 

These are just 2 of the many, many quilts the Mother and Miss H have made.

7. Miss H and Grandma are heading to England in the middle of the year to go see relatives in Swanage on the coast.  Miss H can't wait - and I will be in her luggage!!! It will be my first time overseas - unless you count going to the South Island.

 

 

 Love From

Baa. xxx

Saturday Show: Daisies in the Meadow

 Hello Peeps,

Today's quilt was made by the Mother. It hangs in the upstairs hallway.

 

Isn't it coolio?

And it's warm to snuggle up in.

 

The Mother used the sewing machine to blanket stitch around the daisies.

And she did lovely green squiggly lines in the border.

The back is made from the leftovers. I lurve the two strips on each side.

 

Love From

Baa. xxx