I have found this rather cute BOM from Lynette Anderson's blog that she has generously put up for anyone. I have done 3 so far and I am looking forward to doing the others. I have traced the others to stitch and look forward to finishing them as I think the little wall hanger will look fabulous. If you click on the Noah's Ark logo it will take you to her blog to download the BOM stitcheries.
Here's what I have done so far and will put up the others once I do them. Of course I have to put the coloured borders around them yet but I think I will stitch them all first and then do the borders.






No 1 Rabbits










No 2 Dove











No 3 Rainbow and Cows

Front Cover!!

I am so excited as my quilt that I sent in to Australian Patchwork & Stitching magazine is going to publish it and its on the front cover!! It is a scallop quilt, the one on the chair.

I am doing the happy dance. Its issue 9 no 3.

Gotta Love Pasta

I have taken to making fresh pasta....It tastes so much nicer than the packet stuff. I made this lot a couple of weeks ago and here it is drying.

I have a pasta machine and its electric and I recommend getting an electric one as its much easier to use than the hand operated one. Especially if you are doing it yourself. But some prefer to do it all by hand...my poor old back doesn't let me roll out the pasta, so the machine does it for me.

This is my pasta machine.

Love it!!

I decided to try to make some spinach pasta...it turned out so good and I am going to try tomato pasta next. There is no limit to what can be made. Pumpkin, carrot, oh the mind is racing!!But here is some of my spinach pasta. I made so much I was able to freeze some for later.

Ha!! so much for that one!!

Well I cant concentrate properly at the moment to do this pattern....I really love it and can do it but keep making a few mistakes and it throws the whole pattern out...so when I come back from my visit to my kids I will try to make it then. In the meantime I am going to knit an easier one. It has cable up the front and sleeves and I should be able to concentrate on it. I think I am too hyped up over something to concentrate properly. So just dont even think about that lovely yellow jumper....I am doing a different one.

Triptych Wall Hanger

Here is what I have been working on the last 4 days. Its a triptych wall hanger for my mother in law. She loves it!! I appliquéd all the pictures onto it and framed them and then put it in the frame. Its about 4 foot long and so is rather a big one.

Here's the plan

I have got the knitting bug!! I got some lovely wool and hopefully its enough for this jumper that I want to knit. I have done the front band and am on the patterned part now.

Of course there is way more than this I just wanted you to see the wonderful colour I got. It has Acrylic, Alpaca and Polyester and feels lovely so should feel wonderful on too.

This is the jumper I am doing

 

So a knitting I will go....oh but this isnt the only thing I am doing. I am making a wall hanger which is in 3 sections and joined together to make one big long one. I have done the 3 sections and now need to work out joining them together and sort of framing them. Like with flying geese around or some sort of squared patches.

This is a Leanne Beasley design. I got some lovely charm squares from a lovely lady on the Craft Forum called Clair. Shes a really lovely lady and does some amazing machine quilting and I want to go and watch her do that :)

Anyway....I changed the bag that Leanne designed around a bit. I didnt do it as wide and also I bound the edges as I love that look and also made it so it has more pockets on the inside so I can loose all my stuff hehehe. I also put pockets on the sides so really its a whole new design and just the charm squares idea is from Leanne.

I dont know if any of you do that? change patterns around to suit you, but I do as I grab the idea that is there and add or subtract from it. Its fun and interesting.