pieced and loved

 Okay so enough of the glummy bears.

I've quite clearly got a fully pieced quilt top on my hands!

Enough?

This is my piece and love quilt that was supposed to be for my dining room table.

As the creator I think I deserve the right to change my mind,

especially when patchwork is screaming to be quilted.

I'm going for more fmq as it's in tune with the whimsical feel of this project.
Also I've just seen Jeni's lovely vintage sheet prism quilt
found here at in color order

So shes all basted and ready to go, 

snug as bug!

the great pretender or just a big old Boo

There is a great buzz about the London quilt retreat this weekend

and I'm not going (pulls glum little face).

I knew I'd feel sad...but now I just feel like billy no mates.

So here I am pretending with my name tag I got in a swap from picmonkey.

I did really want to go..but

I already have four trips to London booked this summer and possibly one more,

so I made the decision to fore go this year.

I really hope they make it a yearly thing?

Any how to all who are going

 have a wonderful time,

cannot wait to hear all about it....truly!

 Anyone not going come and hang out

in my virtual retreat that is my blog xx

*this post was typed mainly with a protruding childlike bottom lip

lazy sunday afternoon....

..I've got no mind to worry,

close my eyes and drift away...

*lyrics small faces

how does your garden grow?

 I'm not ashamed to say that it's all looking rather beautiful in the garden.

All that terrible weather is soon forgotten..

This is a new allium in my garden,

it's called christophii.

It's shorter than the regular alliums and has a lovely silvery notion to it.

I've wanted to grow this for years,

so now I cannot wait until they are fully open.

 As promised the honesty has produced the seed discs that we so love.

 and once again the lupins are doing their thing, 

I'm sure it was just a few months ago that they were blooming

 With April and most of this month being so cold and wet

everything is racing to bloom.

 May is still very much the month for aquilegias.

I do love the variations you get when they cross pollinate,

I bought a packet of Nora Barlow seeds a few years ago,

I never actually grew a true NB but her genes are mixing like crazy in my garden.

 A good drought resistant plant should have grey foliage,

just like this nepeta or catmint.

 We've recently repotted our liquid amber tree into an old oak barrel

I'm scared that if I plant it in the garden it would tower everything else!

 This is my favourite spot right now,

especially in the morning or evening sun.

 I shall leave you today with my favourite bloom of the month,

an aquilegia so beautifully dark it's almost wicked!

A quick glimpse of where I've been all week....Devon sent!

more to follow....

doing this now...

 I've come to the conclusion that hand sewing everyday gives me 

 my bad shoulder.

 So today I'm sewing half square triangles on my machine.

(can I assume that the quilters out there know what I mean?)

The only time the iron comes out in this household is when I'm piecing,

there's nothing like pressing open freshly sewn seams, 

that's something I miss when I'm English paper piecing.

This is where the magic happens!

 I am loving making blocks for the shoo-fly quilt,

sewing a little then pressing a little...

Sorry about the shameless use of background goodies,

I'm feeling a bit of a bore right now?

ps.

The 'doing this now' has been ripped from the

 new UK Very Important People show.

Gotta love poor Natalie Cassidys send up,

 I'm loving this now!!