Mother's Point M5 & Osso Bucco

this is mother's point, and yes I know that 1 point is pointing the wrong way (the top point should be facing the same way as the bottom point) oops, but that's what happens when you are woken up at 4:30am thanks to not so DH, and can't get back to sleep. I got up watched Axe Men on the history channel, had some coffee and thought I do a block so I did.

3 down, 252 to go lol.

and in the spirit of Jane Sickle, finished is as good as perfect.

love that little saying, but if the mood hits me later on today after a nana nap I might just redo it, is rather hard to unpick a square that is less than 2.5 inches without making the fabric edge raggy IYKWIM.

Have a fab day we are off to town to do the groceries, the girlie's are lunching with DH so I can pick up the birthday girls present :) pick up a book from the bookshop and I am hoping that our PO Box is full of parcel pickup cards as that means block 4 of Little Bluebirds, Pin cushion of the month and (fingers crossed) 33 fat eights of reproduction fabrics have arrived.

so before I do all that I best go put the washing on so its out drying before we leave dinner is already in the crock pot we are having Osso Bucco, no idea what its like as we have never had it. I used my sisters recipe which according to mum is 'to die for' so here's Libs Osso Bucco recipe.

12 veal shanks
1/3 c plain flour
1/4 c olive oil
750ml Italian style tomato cooking sauce
1 c white wine
2 tsp Castor sugar
2 tsp black pepper
2 tsp salt

* coat shanks in the flour
* heat oil and brown shanks
* put browned meat in crock pot & add the rest of the ingredients to pot
* add water if the liquid doesn't cover the meat
* put the lid on and cook on LOW for 8-10 hours or HIGH for 3-4 hours
* serve with mashed potatoes and peas.

will post tonight with the verdict , I can guarantee that there will be 3 'I don't like it' but you get that in life I suppose

Have a fab day load number 2 has just finished, I need to hang it out and have a shower and then we are off to town.

Baby Jane

Here they are the FIRST 2 blocks of Baby Jane.

Uncle Homer A6

Chicken Tracks J7

Uncle Homer was definately the easiest. Chicken tracks was interesting, the little squares end up being half an inch..........

so far so good 2 down 253 to go lol lol lol

and this is what I managed last night in front of the tv while I watched Packed to the Rafters and All Saints. Too cute started the next block tonight but I was side tracked by Baby Jane.

Have a fabulous day, Thursday is the last time EVER I will be able to say I have a 4 year old. Why do they have to grow up?????

Lost

1 Ultra Thimble fingertip shield.

From handquilting dd's quilt I have a hole in my fingertip on my needle pushing finger, the tip shield made it sooooo much easier to sew the binding on. I remember taking it off when I was on the phone to Mum, and sticking it on something but after that I have NO IDEA lol. I have checked the usual places, the benches, the computer area, the stitching couch everywhere I tell you and no thimble. Of course as is Murphy's Law I lose it when I REALLY need it, I am starting to do Noah and Friends as a wall hanging, friends ar having a baby in January 09, then I have another to do before Feb 14 for other friends so you can see I really need my thimble. I guess I am going to have to get a replacement today and some white homespun for my.......

Baby Jane, I plan on starting this today with 2 of the easy blocks, I have 33 fat eighths of reproduction fabrics on the way here, I love the girls at The Quilted Crow who are selecting the fabrics for me as I am a fabricphobic, I have a fear of selecting fabrics lol it seriously makes me nervous so the Quilted Crow girls www.thequiltedcrow.com.au ...... (how do you do those hpyperlink thingies) ..... are doing it for me :)

Well I had best get moving, its 10am and time to have a shower, clean the house, head to town and get sewing and its a GLORIOUS day here today. The sun is shining, there's a slight breeze, the birds are singing, the chooks are hopefully laying eggs and Henry cat is sitting at the door looking out just waiting for his chance to escape, little does he know that the dog is asleep around the corner.

Have a fabulous day :) I know I will

Ta Da

the backing see all my handquilting

The front

99%

of dd's quilt...is DONE!

YIPPEE I have maybe another 2 hours of sewing the binding down and its FINISHED.

feeling very proud of myself, because I was only bitten by the patching bug in late June and here it is early October and I have my first quilt 99% finished, and another I don't really know how many in the pipeline.

my next adventure starts tomorrow when I get some white homespun. Last week I had a patching order arrive and in that order was the Dear Jane book and cd. So I decided that I am going to make a 'baby Jane' now this will be a lifetime in progress project, I am aiming at the moment to try and do 1 a week so in 225 weeks it should be finished lol I have a teeny amount of reproduction fabrics here so I am going to make a start....tomorrow.

So much to do so little time, well it seems I have so little time lol, thank goodness for school holidays 1 more week to go. I still have my last stitchers angel gift to make and I know what that will be just need to time now.

Have a great day and make sure you check back for the finished girlies quilttomorrow.

Show & Tell pt 2

This is my owl pincushion from Quilt Fabric Delights Pincushion of the month thingie they are doing. I am so happy with this little owl and he has already been pricked with pins. Poor Owly and I got a gorgeous little pin topper in my kit too

the bottom

and a side view there are 4 little mushrooms in total

and the rest of my blocks

I will be back tomorrow night hopefully with a pictureof the completed quilt. And dd # 1's quilt is in the final stages of hand quilting, I have the zig zags on the side to finish off and then the binding to go on and finally a swim in the washing machine is needed :) she is getting very very excited lol but the pressure is on for the other girlies quilts to be done too.

its Show and Tell time

for pictures of my sampler quilt, well pictures of the blocks to share, tomorrow (tuesday) all these blocks will be in a quilt, so excited. There is a 9th block I just haven't gotten around to sewing it together, is a basket, tricky if I do say so. Out of all the blocks the only one I will never do again if I can avoid it is the card trick, didn't enjoy that one at all.

so in random order here they are

ok so blogger won't co operate, I'll be back later to try and get the rest of the bocks up for show and tell

have a great day and I hope the sun is shining :)