Quilty and Stitchy Finishes.

Yes, I've been missing- summer holidays have finally ended and high school has started for Nicholas!

Then there was that little problem with computer which resulted in a system restore- after much hair pulling and swear word muttering to myself, it's finally up and running again. Sigh, computers drive me nuts.


First up, for your viewing pleasure is my Valentine's finish-

It's by Carol of istitchaholic

And although I finished stitching it the day before Valentine's Day, it didn't quite get finished in time. Oh well, it will be for next year!

Here's the quilt I've just finished making for Nicholas. It's made from batik fabric and will fit a queen size bed- not that he's in one yet, but as he's already taller then me, I think his next bed will be queen size. I painted his bedroom during the summer holidays, and am now doing the soft furnishings. As his bedroom is quite big, he has a feature wall of blue/green with the other walls being white. Very fresh and crisp. Just the thing for a teenager. And he can take his quilt with him when he leaves home in about oh, 20 years or so!

Just waiting on the backing to arrive.  As Nicholas is a swimmer, I picked this quilt to represent waves and blues to reflect the colour of water. 

Here's some blocks from the Layer-Cake-Quilt-Along-2010  Three more blocks to go, I think!

I'll have two different quilts, a pretty one for me, and my very first ever, Christmas quilt!

And finally some hexagons that I've been making while Nicholas swims (3-5 times a week).

Only 95 more to go!



Now I'm off to catch up on some blog reading!

Do I really have that much floss?

When your guesses started coming in, I thought 'they're a bit high, I don't have THAT much floss'.

But then I started thinking about it- bad idea- and I realised that with 6 boxes, each one capable of holding around 100 flosses, I surely did have that much floss!

So how much floss do I have?

Well, I have 669- so that makes Missy of Eat Stitch Love the winner with her guess of 661! Congratulations Missy, I'll email you shortly. Thank you to everyone who played along, I hope you have fun!

Happy Stitching!

Blogoversary! Guess how much floss I have!

Well it's my second blogoversary! Woohoo! Let's have a little fun!

If you can guess how much DMC I have,  you will win a prize!

Here's my collection-

There's this box

And this box

And this one

And this one

And this one

And this one

Pretty easy so far!  One last little lot and that's it!

The closest to the number of floss I have, will win!

Win what? you say.

Well, I can't be bothered going through my stash, and the mail delivery is still atrocious, so the winner will get a US$30 gc to

123stitch.com

Interested? Get guessing! One guess only please!

Make sure your email addy is in your profile, or in your post.

I'll count the floss next Wednesday 26th and let you know.

Here's a little help- some of the floss cards that are laying down have floss sitting underneath them too that you can't see!