Well apart from the fun of the internet or lack thereof ........ I've been so busy doing my Xmas pressie for one of my neighbours. I can tell you now - and you have my permission to shoot me (not literally though please) if I even show that I may do this pattern again. I saw this pattern on the internet, or a similar one and it jumped out of the page and I thought "Ooooh I like that" - It is so fiddly, and it's taken me more time to make it, than most of my last quilt!!!!!!

I'm making a table runner and place mats for one of my neighbours. I do hope they like it....


I've just got to finish quilting the plain material, to try and tie the design in together. I've done all the plain material at last, now all I have to do is stitch it along the seams of each colour (the terminology is "stitch in the ditch"!!!!





This is the runner for the middle of the table and I've already made the blocks for the place mats - I think I might have to add another edging, so that it's similar to the runner and also so that the place mats may just be bigger.





As you can see it's still a "work in progress". Even though I'm not enjoying it as much as I'd hoped, I am still happy with it. I've got to make two more soft toys for the grandchildren - Josh wants a footballer!!!!! and Chloe wants a unicorn/horse!!! This should be fun!!

I hope you are all well - especially John, who's had the most awful treatment from his care-givers (which is a bit of a mis-nomer) as I can't see very much care being given. I hope he gets better real soon. It's damn cold here for September. I've even had the hot bottle to keep me warm, as well as wearing my thermal vest!!! Hells teeth how will I cope when winter comes?