November 2017 - A Birthday

This month saw a Birthday celebration 21 again! and another gap year?

What are we working on this month? HT brought along a nice blue charm square quilt to which she has added a lovely soft velvety backing and planned to quilt with straight(ish) lines.

HT Blue quilt

The quilting was completed by the end of the day.

Two crochet blankets were in progress, one nearly finished, the other on it's way. The first is a snuggle blanket for a Christmas present. A border was chosen to use the eight bright colours used around the grey squares.

CB snuggle blanket

The second has been seen before and is progressing slowly.

AB blanket

A labour of love for this piece of  hand stitched tiny hexagons. It is growing very well, but still a way to go. This is a useful project to take when travelling. This was started to use up some 1930's style fabrics, but the stash does not seem to be shrinking that much.

HW;s lovely hexagon flower basket centre.

CD is working on another two Linus quilts. This is a very simple pattern using WOF strips in various widths, the widest is a feature fabric, with two coordinating fabrics in between. These will be backed with fleece and quilted with a binding to finish them off.

Linus quilts - Anyone for Tea

The teapot fabric with a black background was dismissed as unsuitable for a Linus quilt, but I thought with some nice bright accents, it could look pretty good.

Lunch was delicious, as usual, with Fish Chowder soup and homemade bread, with ginger, mango and yogurt dessert. Too busy eating to take pictures.

We had a birthday to celebrate, so at 3pm our time, we face-timed EL in Florida, got out the cake and candles and had a sing. then the birthday girl opened her presents and we had cake with a cup of tea.

Salted Caramel Cake

Birthday pressies

We had a bit more stitching before we headed off home. I love these days, you get so much out of this type of activity. I also like the fact that we take the time to document what we have been up to, giving us the opportunity to look back at the fun we are having. Important as we mature in years, as came up in conversation today.

PS. You know when lunch is good when the host finishes the soup, and then someone else tries to 'lick' the pan!!!! ;)