Finished Homework And A winner

As picked by my dad at 6:45 this morning.

And the winner is Miss_Oakden, if you could email with an address I will get your parcel in the

post.
Finally I have finished the cat shooting gallery and I am really pleased with it. I hope teacher is.

A Lazy Sunday

We took advantage of the glorious weather today and went for a trip to the coast.

This is the ford at Great Walsingham. Beautiful isn't it.

We found a lovely little shop called B T O I It's full of nice goodies that you may not need but still end up taking them home.


Neil treated me to this book. I love beach huts.



And then there was this tea towel. Well- if I have to spend time in the kitchen I want some thing nice to look at!



Tomorrow I have got to take this little fella to doggy hospital. He really wasn't very well on Friday so I rushed home from work and took him to the vets.
He has an ongoing back problem that meant he needed some pain killers but whilst we were there they did some blood tests. The results of these mean he may have a liver problem so he is also taking a liver supplement and needs to go back for more blood test and an ultrasound. We took Sparky with us today and you wouldn't have thought there was anything wrong with him.



And before you ask yes that is a Ben and Jerrys ice cream tub he has got his nose in. He loves ice cream.

This is my 50th post, so in keeping with blogging tradition I am having a give away, all you have to do is leave a comment on this post before Wednesday and you will be entered into a draw.

A Visit To Cambridge

Yesterday we went to Cambridge to see the Moving Forward exhibition. I don't have any pictures to show you as photography wasn't allowed but if you have the time then go and have a look for yourself. The work on show was fantastic. It is a small exhibition but well worth it. While we were there we bumped into Sarah who had gone to Cambridge just to see the exhibition.

I was really pleased I had taken the camera with me because I can share these pictures with you.

Aren't the gates wonderful and this window just appeared at the right time because Neil was having a grumble at me for getting us lost (which I hadn't, when we went back to look at the street map the 'you are here' sticker was in the wrong place- see it's never my fault). I was looking every where except at him and I just happened to look up and see the window. Obviously I had to take a picture and by the time I had finished so had he and we were on the move again.

Tyvek Day

Gina came to the shop today and gave a workshop using Tyvek.

All the ladies produced some fabulous work. There was some very quiet moments during the day because they were all concentrating so much and this shows in the high standard of their work.

They made some beautiful flowers and beads.

Also some lovely Seed Pods.


And the mess on this desk, well I'm sure you can guess who sat here and it wasn't Pam.

Well done ladies.

A weekend away from sewing

I know I spend far too much time indoors - like all of us real work and housework take up most of my waking hours.

So with an unfit husband and an overweight dog in tow I headed for the north Lincolnshire coast on Sunday.

Both Neil and I spent much of our childhood in and around Holbeach (although we never met...), and the flat countryside and sea marshes are familiar to us but neither of us have been there for many years.

Sunday took us beyond Holbeach St Matthew to an isolated part of The Wash SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest).
Although it was glorious day there was a heavy breeze but it was beautifully clear and we could see for miles.

This part of the marsh has a real operational role as a bombing range for the RAF.

Meet Sparky our Bichon Frise - I think he was asking to be taken home for a rest!

We enjoyed ourselves so much we went back today! This time we were slightly further east at Gedney Drove End. As you can see the coast was deserted - we only saw one other couple all the time we were there, who turned out to be neighbours of ours from some ten years ago that we haven't seen since we moved away - what a small world!

Another clear day (with no breeze at all) meant we could see the wind-farm that is offshore of Skegness, and across to Hunstanton, the only west facing resort on the east coast.

Neil is proud of this photo with the dark clouds casting a shadow over part of the sea bank,

And he thinks the clouds are atmospheric in this one.

I hope this might become a regular outing - we could all do with the exercise!

Festival Of Quilts

Yesterday I went The Festival Of Quilts. I apologise now because this is a picture heavy post, It's not all the pictures I took though!
I didn't go on my own I was with Neil, Pam her partner Rob and mum. We all had a great time.

The standard of the quilts was outstanding they were all beautiful.

Next year I think I may have to go and stay overnight as I would have liked to have spent longer looking at the quilts. We arrived before the doors opened and left about 4ish but it just wasn't long enough.
I can't put names to any of the pictures but I am sure will agree with me that they are wonderful.

The detail in this face is amazing. It must have taken the artist ages - it looks like a pencil drawing but as you get closer you start to see the stitches and you are left in awe at the artist's talent.

I hope you enjoyed the pictures.

A Lazy Sunday

Today we went to Tattershall Castle, we were keen to see the exhibition they are holding - The House Of Bling.
I really don't understand where that title came from and neither did a lot of the other visitors. It wasn't worth going to see, even the staff aren't impressed with it.
The castle however was worth going to see and always is. I love the castle for its architecture, the fireplaces are quite spectacular as well.



This picture shows the remains of the kitchen. I have to say that is my kind of kitchen - non existent!

After the dissappointment of Tattershall we went to the Hub at Sleaford to see the exhibition by the 62 Group (Bending the Line), and that was worth seeing.

Yesterday Linda Rudkin came to the shop to give a workshop on Flower Pounding. I hadn't met Linda before but she is a lovely lady and everyone enjoyed the workshop.

You can just see Linda in this picture standing at the far right.

Here are some pictures of the ladies working hard. They produced some beautiful work and all from a few flowers and weeds from the garden, or if you are Margaret you stop at the train crossing whilst the barriers are down, jump out of the car and scour the roadside for anything interesting.

You can see Margaret here laughing her head off, she does this a lot!

Here she is again, you wouldn't think she used to be deputy headmistress at a primary school. I bet she told all the children to pay attention in class.

Joking apart Margaret is lovely lady who likes to life to the full and who can blame her :-)

This week I have discovered that there are a few people who read my blog and don't leave comments. If you are one of these secret readers it would be nice to hear from you if only to let me know that I am not talking to myself. I do enough of that at home.

I hope you all enjoyed your weekend.

Where Did All The Time Go

I can't believe it's nearly three weeks since my last post, where has all the time gone?

As promised here is a picture of my finished quilt 'Courthouse Steps'. It's the first quilt I have ever made and finished. I have got another one waiting to be layered up and quilted, one nearly there and two more on the go. Does any of that sound familiar?
Unfortunately I don't know how to load the picture onto Blogger so that you can click on it to enlarge it.


These cats are part of my homework. Last term we were looking at Line and need to produce a piece of work that doesn't involve stitch. To start with I was really struggling with this and I had a total mental block (which doesn't take much) then when the dog was chasing next doors cat around the garden it came to me in a flash.
Do you remember the shooting galleries that you get at the fairground and they line up the ducks? Well I am lining up the cats! I have got the cats done and I am pleased with them ,now all I've got to do is make the gallery for them to stand on.

Here they are in close up.

Fun aren't they.

These buttons are made by a very talented lady who I have finally managed to talk into doing a workshop to make them. Sarah has managed to work out a way of sewing the beads straight onto the buttons. The picture really doesn't do them justice you might see a better picture on Sarah's blog and more examples of her lovely work.

We have also got Linda Rudkin at the shop on Saturday. She will be doing a workshop using real flowers, click on the link below to see Linda's fantastic work.
Linda Rudkin.