All Boarded Up.

Hello Peeps,

The Mother lurves quilting, but she also really enjoys other crafts too. Several months ago the Mother spent some (well, actually a considerable amount) of time on Pinterest. And when she saw pallet boards with sayings on them she absolutely fell in LURVE with them. So the poor Boss (and I say poor because he was the one who had to break all the pallets apart - an incredibly difficult job so I am told - Heehee!) set to work.

 And look what the Mother created!  She ordered the stickers online. 

 The Mother made this one out of an old table that broke when we moved to the new house. 

Isn't the butterfly so COOLIO?

 And eat lots of chocolate too!

*Twirl* *Spin* I'm dancing!

This board was also made from the broken table. 

Love From

Baa. xxx

Saturday Show: My Pets

Hello Peeps,

For today's Saturday Show, I am showing you a little wall-hanging that has pictures of some of Miss H's pets while she was living overseas.

This is Samson, he was the family dog. Samson was a sausage dog cross and very cute. Doesn't the applique doggie look so coolio?

Miss H and her brother had several hampsters. Did you know that you can't have hampsters in New Zealand?

Finally, this is Spice. He was the best cat ever - he even let Miss H dress him up in a dolls hat.

Doesn't the blanket stitch look so coolio around the flower?

Love From

Baa. xxx

We Support You!

Hello Peeps, 

Today the Mother is taking part in the We Support You blog hop organised by Mdm Samm and her able leader for this hop Pat Broe – the best!

We used a pattern Mdm Samm designed.

You can also buy it for $12 if you would like.

madamesamm@me.com

The Mother enlarged it and made it into a cushion for a very special family friend.  Our Auntie Susan. 

Everyone should have an Auntie Susan – she taught Kit Kat and Miss H how to sew a dress the year before they started high school and also Kit Kat’s older sister.  And she is the best baker ever!

The Mother and Boss have known her over 25 years.

She left school without qualifications, and has worked as a nurse aid, a nanny, farm hand, dressmaker, chef, secretary, accounts clerk, legal secretary and personal assistant

before becoming a teacher with a Bachelor of Education (Primary) then a Masters with Honours – Second Class First Division, her work often specialising in Gifted Education.

After a number of years teaching in New Zealand she returned mid-year 2014 from teaching for 2 years in an International Christian School in INDIA – Miss H and Kit Kat visited her there for 3 weeks - and she went for her 2 yearly mammogram where she was diagnosed with breast cancer.

What a roller coaster ride it has been in the past 6 months.

She has had a lumpectomy, then a unilateral mastectomy with reconstruction and reduction of the other breast.  Then because the best treatment was hormone therapy she had a hysterectomy and just 14 days ago her final reconstruction operation.   Whew!  She is amazing!

In New Zealand most campaigns to inform people about Breast Cancer use the slogan Think Pink – each cancer has a certain colour did you know? – so The Mother has made a pink cushion and a pretty pink bra for Aunty Susan’s cushion. 

 Even though she finds zips scary she put one in the back so she could put the special zipper pull on it – she purchased it as a fund raiser for the Cancer Society as a key ring - it shows the size of two of Aunty Susan’s lumps.

 The Mother made the cushion for Aunty Susan's bed and as a tribute for how courageous we think she is, and all the other women out there fighting this disease.

 Thanks for looking in on our blog and now you should go see all the other wonderful things people have made with this pattern. 

Here are the rest of today’s bloggers and the full list – don’t miss out – go check out what they have been doing.
Thanks again to Mdm Samm and the lovely Pat.

Feb. 6 

I Piece 2 - Mary

Baa's Amazing Adventure

Quilted Delights
The Blended Blog 

  

 
Feb. 9

 

Stitchin By The Lake

 Tea Leaf Quilts 

 Books, Hooks, Sticks, etc

Seams To Be Sew

Stitchen' My Life Away 

 Feb. 10

Creatin' In the Sticks

The Quilting Queen Online

Everyone Deserves A Quilt

The Quilted Cat

Hill Valley Quilter

 Feb. 11

Buzzing and Bumbling

In Stitches and Seams

All thingz sewn

The Slow Quilter

Crayon Box Quilt Studio

Sew We Quilt

     

   

Saturday Show: Spice

Hello Peeps,

Today's Show is a wall-hanging with Miss H's first ever cat - Spice.

The Mother used special fabric printing paper to put the pictures in the quilt.

Spice loved to snuggle up under the blankets - just like me!

This is Spice with The Geek's cat - Lightening Strike. They were brothers.

The Mother patched the back with lots of funky quilt fabrics.

Love From
Baa. xxx

Festival One

Hello Peeps,

You may have noticed that there was no Saturday Show last Saturday. Well, the reason is that it was Auckland Anniversary on the weekend and Miss H was at Festival One from Friday until Monday.

This was her wristband. 

Miss H lurved it. One of her all time favourite bands was there - Switchfoot. 

She also listened to many other bands, including Brady Toops. Look, she got his signature. Yay!

Miss H also got the signatures of all the band members in Newworldson. Soul Joel kindly wrote the band name at the top for Miss H. 

This last photo was taken by one of the Festival One photographers. Kit Kat found it while looking on their Facebook page. Neither Kit Kat nor Miss H knew that they were having their photo taken.

Kit Kat is on the left, Miss H is on the right. 

Love From 

Baa. xxx

Postage Stamp Quilt!

Hello Peeps.

Miss H has also been sewing some of her postage stamp quilt.

Here are some of the squares sewn into groups of four.

Woof! Woof! Miss H "borrowed" the dog fabric from the left-overs of a Christmas cushion.

Each square is 2 1/2 inches. 

This hat is from some off-cuts after the She Who Sews Blog Hop.

Shh... Miss H snuck this owl out of The Mother's stash. Don't tell her.

Mmmm... yummy. Chocolate drops and an Ice-cream Sundae!

Well, actually sheep are. We are loyal, lovable, warm and oh-so-soft!

Love From

Baa. xxx

Saturday Show: Childhood Dreams

Hello Peeps,

Today's quilt is very special. It was made by the Mother for Miss H as a quilt for her childhood... however it was only just finished a year ago, when Miss H was a teenager.

 Isn't it really coolio?

The quilt is made out of such different fabric - an eye spy quilt. 

These are the happy children who like to play with kites.  

I am going bananas!!! 

Miss H made me hide my eyes - she thinks these are scary moons! 

These creatures are all ready for bed - just after their bedtime stories.

Twirl! I am a ballerina! Twirl!

A couple of days ago we had a bit of excitement - we saw one of only 2 harmful spiders in NZ. It was crawling on Miss H's shorts and she nearly put them on!

Here it is. The whitetail spider. It won't kill you - just make you sick.

Love From

Baa. xxx