jans musing: August 2012

Friday, 31 August 2012

IN THE NICK OF TIME

Got to get pictures on here of challenge done for the FMQ Challenge I am in, time is against me it is 23:31 right now...ARGH!!!!! The challenge was set by Wendy Sheppard for August and it was Jester Hats!!!!! I saw them and thought OH OH trouble is acoming Janet, but once I gave them a go [last night] I loved doing them so did more tonight, here are pictures of what I did..got to be on before midnight or I turn into a pumpkin or maybe a JESTER????

If you look closely you should be able to see I have used a Rainbow of colours across the fabric

I was going to put pictures of how they go across but Blogger says I have used all my space for pictures....I didn't know there was a limit???

Now what do I do?

Could be the end of this blog then. I have just made all the pictures in YEAR 2011 small as possible and now I am going to see if it makes a difference to me loading on this thread.

NOPE

I cannot load any more pictures

Got to think now what to do

Any help will be most gratefully received

Wednesday, 29 August 2012

MAKE IT SNAPPY

A challenge was issued, I cannot say by whom, but I rose to it and took some pictures in a mad five minutes in the back garden - [Hubby says I cheated cos I took longer than 5 mins]

I now have to 'do' something with them. I am looking forward to it......I think!!! I can hear my friend Di laughing her head off as she reads this......I know I know....

Hmmmmmm!!!!!!!

Monday, 27 August 2012

SHE CRIED

The posts on here are going to be all over the place for a while until I catch up with myself. I have to get this particular story on first as time goes so quickly it will be fish and chip paper before we know it.

You all know if you read my Blog regularly that I belong to the Popular Patchwork Magazine Forum.....well one of the Members on there - TESSA - proposed to her chap - TERRY - this year 29th February, and the man [sensibly] said YES.

So of course we on the forum had to do something special for her didn't we....KATY, the lady in charge of the forum, sent out messages to folk and she had a great response, 33 ladies wished to take part in the making of a QUILT for Tessa and Terry. So we set to and designed a quilt for them, the fabrics to be used were Fossil Ferns and in Autumn colours as they are Tessa's favourites, sorry Terry, you win some you lose some and anyway you have got or will have Tessa very soon now.

Oh forgot to tell you the date set for the wedding was 8 September 2012, yep this year....but I had other plans for that, I decided we would have the quilt made and finished way before that date and we would present it to her at the FoQ this year.

To cut a long story short----too late---hahaha, the job got done, along with a bag for Tessa from some of the leftovers and a book of the story of how the quilt was made, and lucky lucky you are able to see a video of the presentation to Tessa of said items, which my very clever daughter did with her new camera. Well done Annette. Well done also to the 32 ladies along with me being the 33rd for making such a grand job of it all, you are the best. All your names got on the quilt, mine too, I wonder if Tessa has found it yet!!!!!

If you click on the link below it will take you to You Tube for the video, make sure you have your sound on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=971VAR6tUy0

Enjoy the video but here are some pictures if you don't wish to view that...

Front and back of quilt on skis ready for pinning...