Weekend Wanderings and Palace Pottering

[A mouthful of a title but oh well :-)]

I got a chance to do a bit of pottering in The Palace (as the MOML calls it) last week —
One more block for my Snowflake Land project —

(from Quiltmania#80)

I love these chaps and always get a thrill when I finish one!

And a yellow Honeypot Star —

It took some effort to find enough yellow scraps but I guess that's a good thing!

Six made now, three to go.

A friend of ours' had a special birthday recently so, being quilters, we made her a quilt...she loves brights and gollies ... here is the block I made —

(without his eyes of course)

and here is the finished quilt.....Leeanne of qultmekiwi beautifully quilted it - she shows more detail in her blogpost *here* —

And my weekend wanderings took me down south for a couple of nights - Kerryn from The Country Yard and I visited with The Village Green Quilters where I led a 2-day class making a caddy.

The ladies were a lot of fun and I really enjoyed the class. What's more they were focussed too and nearly all of them finished their caddy by Sunday afternoon :-)

This one was finished (soon) after the class  and the photo sent through to me :-)

Thank you ladies for an enjoyable weekend!
Since the weekend the class samples have laid around looking neglected ... I have a great-nephew due shortly so I hope to get this one sewn up pretty soon —

'till next time,

happy creating,

Scrappy Saturday and Snowman Sunday

With a bit of wintery weather (wet but warm) I was happy to bunker down in The Palace and spend the weekend stitching.
On Saturday I did some Scrap Busting —

A few more cats

My little pile is growing. It will be a small quilt but I haven't yet decided
exactly what size I want it.

A few more 9-patches for my Omigosh quilt.
These are my Leader and Ender project, another pile is growing

And another star block

Over at Angela's soscrappy blog this month the scrap colour was teal/blues with a touch of green so I have a few less scraps in this colour now :-)

Sunday, being a new day, was time to focus on my OMG project - my One Monthly Goal for June was to complete a second block in my Quiltmania Snowflake Lane hanging.

Out came my #40 weight Aurifil for the applique.

Block Two completed!!!

Isn't he a sweetie?

Block 1 and 2 side by side. Hopefully next month block 3 will be with them!

It's great to be moving on this project again - thanks to Heidi and the little push of making that One Monthly Goal :-). *Here* is the latest linkup to see who else met their goal!. Wonder what I will work on next month...?

I've started the new week feeling content and, with winter still going on outside, I'm hoping to squeeze a few more sewing sessions in ♥

Have a good week - happy stitching,