Surprise in the Post

Contents of my surprise parcel

Remember a little while ago I posted about how I made my coasters and how I had sent them to my swap buddy.  Well the deadline had passed when I should have received mine but my buddy had contacted me and said they were being done and would arrive.

You can imagine my delight when opening this box to find these beauties!  And some of them were done with her left hand as she couldn't use her right! They are downright gorgeous!

All four of them right side

One turned over so you can see the reverse

On a different note I am gradually organising my scraps.  A lot of the scraps look like this in there boxes and this makes it very difficult to find anything quickly.  So I have started working on them a little bit each day.

this is the pile before 

This is the same amount after pressing

So I figure that the three boxes of scraps could come back down to one in the next week as i do a bit more each day.  

Exciting News for Tomorrow!

Just a reminder that tomorrow I will be linking with Kathi for our Motivation Mayhem Monthly Muster!

I am offering a Giveaway!  So remember to come back tomorrow and have your blog ready on your goals for next month, and if you had a goal for this month how did you go?  I have quite a few from this month complete and quite a few still happening.  And for next month well just come on in for a cuppa tomoz and bring a bit of chocolate cake and enjoy the party!  The giveaway is for someone who joins in our blog link party.

So Until tomorrow, have a great day!

Wendy

Saturday moves into a slow stitching Sunday

My frame in its new position

I spent time on Saturday tidying up my craft area and managed to change the orientation of my quilt frame around.  I normally sat between the window and the frame to quilt.  I now can look out of the window as I quilt.

this is the centre looking toward my desk area

This became a wonderful achievement as I have been planning this move for awhile but never quite had the time or the helping hands since I have the largest size of poles in the frame at the moment.

On Sunday I was able to do some slow stitching to my Love Calms the Seas quilt and as you can see I have started to make some progress.  I am hoping to be able to move the quilt on the rods to a new section by the end of the week.

Just a few shots of Love Calms the Seas progress.  This week I am linking to Kathy's Quilts for a Slow Stitching Sunday and to My go go life for Sewjo Saturday

Motivation Mayhem Monthly Muster!

My exciting news is that I will be teaming up with my friend Kathi from Designs Originals by KC to host a link party.  We are calling it Motivation Mayhem Monthly Muster!  Our aim is to set goals and be accountable for them and we plan on  blogging  about them.  They will be for the month approaching and accounting for our goals from the past month.  We are hoping that you will join in with us and write a blog about your goals.  These are not necessarily quilting goals.  

We plan for this to occur on the last Friday of every month,  the link will be open for the weekend.  Both Kathi and I are ecstatic about this link and we would love you all to joint us.  Let us see how many goals we can achieve for the year!  So grab our button from the side bar and get your blog ready for Friday!

Just a little reminder that Gelato is featuring in the Hand quilt section of the Spring Bloggers Quilt Festival, I would appreciate your vote if you can spare a couple of minutes by clicking on the heart of the thumbnail of the quilt and voting, Thank You

Why not sign up and follow me, tomorrow I will be posting a new block I have designed and made so stay tuned for my reveal.

Have a great day,

Wendy