Dear Jane blocks

About 8 years ago I bought myself the book "Dear Jane - The Two Hundred Twenty Five Patterns from the 1863 Jane A. Stickle Quilt", and loved it so much I subsequently bought the software as well.  I made a few blocks then, and over the years I have periodically dusted it off and made a few more.

It's great for when you want to sew, but you only have half an hour, and you don't want to clean off your sewing table.  So far we have the Top Left Corner...

The Top Right Corner...

The Bottom Left Corner...

The Bottom Right Corner...

And some of the centre blocks...

Yesterday and today I added Michael's Motorcycle...

Meeting Place...

And Chicken Tracks...

The blocks are only 4.5 inches, in case you're wondering.  Then Blondie decided it was high time she made her own quilt and started cutting some blocks for a simple tumbler pattern.

I'm pretty much leaving her to it as she cuts and chooses fabric because she really won't tolerate much interference on my part.

On a different note - I made one of our most favourite risotto's for dinner tonight - loved by all but FJ who'll just have a meat pie - thanks.  It's pumpkin, spinach and fetta...YUM!

Hubby and I will be fighting over the left-overs for lunch tomorrow - I might just have to go and hide them in the fridge!!

Progress at last!

I started a quilt for my then still to be born niece about a year ago.  And then it sat, and it sat, and it sat.  She will be one this year and it might be finished for her birthday after some progress this weekend!

I gave up waiting for my sewing table to be clear enough to sew - I just shoved things to the side and, what do you know? I finished the top.

I just love the monkeys, and unlike the last one of these quilts I made, this one didn't have any wizards to turn rows around on me!

Now I will have to uncover the rest of my sewing table so that I can quilt it.

What to do with a pile of lego...

It is currently school holidays, so I have a wee bit of time to blog.  Term time is just impossible at the moment, as I am working full-time at school, and after school activities keep us busy four days out of five!!

The kids have a pile of lego that does not belong to any particular set.  Last holidays we went through all the lego and separated it out into boxes - Star Wars, pirates, explorers, City, Atlantis, and general.

This is the general...

And this is what the kids did with it last week...

It is a very tall space rocket with all sorts of rooms - a vehicle bay, engine room, dog house, kitchen, laundry, jail cell, sight-seeing room etc.  Surrounding it we have the launch pad, a moon base, various vehicles, bots, and a bad bots base.

Then an asteroid slammed into earth, blew the launch pad crashing into the moon base, taking out the rocket on the way.  And the pile returned to the way it started.

Now they are working on the Ministry of Magic - guess who's been watching Harry Potter again?