Blink and you miss it!

My blogging of late, that is!

There's been lots going on but I have managed to squeeze in a bit of sewing.

                                                                                                      

We had a very wet day last week so I spent the day huddled in The Palace.

It was a good spot to watch the river rise. We cant normally see it at all from the house!

You may remember I've been pattern testing for Juliet of Tartankiwi this year. On my sew-day I re-made the rock wren. The one Juliet asked me to test was the 12 inch version. I've fallen in love with the six inch versions and aim to put them all together in a quilt.

These are the 6 inch blocks to date -

These are from her 'Birds on a Wire' club.

I like taking photos that show what was happening at that moment in time so I've taken these latest photos showing my current kitchen. Progress is happening!

After my sew day, I took the dogs for a closer look at the river.

It receeded fairly quickly. The MOML had to repair the sides of the bridge and put some fences up, but it wasn't what we call a proper flood so we were pleased.

I have a couple of little finishes for the month. I started crocheting this blanket a few months ago and pulled it out again when the MOML and I had a roadtrip recently.

It was a fun one to make. It went from one corner to the other, starting small, growing wide and then decreasing to small again.  

Below shows the effect of the corner to corner to corner stitch pattern.

And I've made two more of my Royal vests..I went up a needle size for these ones so they're a size bigger than the ones I've already made.

They use about a 50 gram ball each - slightly more or slightly less so I started these ones in a co ordinating wool to make sure I didn't run out!

On the subject of babies, ED had her baby shower recently. Her sister made a great looking and tasting cake -

I'm writing this on my tablet as I'm on my way to visit my son so please excuse the poor formatting. I'm so pleased I loaded the photos before I left home! I also cant work out how to add in links here right now so I apologise about that too!

And more apologies for not answering all of my comments of my last post - it really has been busy around our place. I read there are fixes for Blogger and the comments issue too but also haven't had a chance to try that out.

Until next time, 

Happy stitches :-)