Big news and bigger news

 Here we are on Easter Sunday. What better day to tell you about my upcoming fabric range.

Due for release in May at Spring market, this is Bunny Trail.

I am super pumped about it and am keeping one eye on the calendar and one on the to-do list as things get closer to market time. The sooner the fabric gets here the better, but in truth, I am not expecting it for a few weeks. Then it will be saddle up and sew like the wind to get everything ready for market in mid-May. (I am going to Salt Lake City !!!! Can't wait )

The neck / back thing has improved , and now  the man with the magic hands is working on the shoulder. New drugs mean my stomach lining will return to something closer to normal in a few months and for this I will be eternally grateful. (Oh friends it was a new and awful place).

But the really big news ? Bigger than a trip to the USA  and bigger than new fabric range ???

I have a grandpuppy !

He is the cutest puppy ever (of course)

and as a total bonus - I am holidays for two glorious weeks so I have plenty of time for puppy antics.

I hope your Easter makes you as happy as a puppy with two tails.

(His name is quite possibly but not definitely going to be Mac)

Slugs and snails

Slugs

and snails

and puppy-dog tails.

A recent influx of boy babies (like 2) gave me an excuse to work on the buckets a bit more. Even though I love the buckets over in the side bar - I have always wanted to have a go at some that are more ...well...buckety, if you know what I mean.

So after a few wonky starts. I ended up with these.

This shape is definitely my new favourite for containers. The bottom has a fabric covered templastic circle sewn to it so they stand quite well and the wool blend fabric has enough texture to forgive the wonky hand sewing of the base.




The only thing I am not sold on , is the handles (artfully fashioned from some wire coat hangers).

Oh and I realise the slug kinda looks like an alien.

I still want them to be wire, so I don't want to cover them, I just want nicer wire-maybe black??? Any suggestions ?

In non buckety news

• I have a sore foot and it is all strapped up so I have learnt to accelerate my sewing machine with my other foot.


• Miss Jemma just scored the LEAD role in the school production (but you know, like it's no big deal mum , you don't have to go telling the whole world.) It is The Wiz, a jazzed up version of The Wizard of Oz. (I so want to make her a Dorothy frock...)


• I have joined Lucy Lockets Mini quilt swap and will be swapping with the very talented Monda loves.

and I thought knitting with wool was hard................can you imagine knitting with televisions?