Il Postino has been....

Well I've been absent from Blogland for a little while, had lots of visitors for the last few weeks and haven't had time for much blogging.

But I have had time to receive deliveries......

This arrived from Kathy at Pink Chalk Fabrics....

These Tillsbrook Toadstool and Spotted Owl from Alexander Henry - no great plans for these, but they were just too cute not to have in my stash!

These beautiful Matrioshka prints from Heather Ross' West Hill - intended for a quilt for our bed (watch this space!)

And this pack of fat quarters because they were too cute to pass up!

And this arrived with my parents from Amazon UK (much much cheaper than it is here in the book shops in Singapore)


I just love this book, all the illustrations are soooo cute and all the project ideas are great, Heather Ross is just so fab. In fact she's so fab I've ordered some of her Far Far Away line from fabricworm, waiting for it to arrive as we speak, and I think I'd like to order lots and lots more!

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BLW

Possum and I are just embarking on our adventure into "real food". We're following the BLW, or Baby Led Weaning approachand it's going real well. (Here's the website if you're interested). It's based on a paper research and written by Gill Rapley, basically you put real food in front of a 6 month old and let them feed themselves and eat what they want. So no purees and no spoon feeding. It's so much FUN! So far we've tried, strawberries, bread, mango, broccoli, baby sweetcorn, yoghurt, asparagus and bread.

Highs and Lows

Well the highlight of my day was ordering some lovely fabric from Pink Chalk Fabrics. The service received so far has been excellent, I had some problems placing my order due to the amount of fabric left, so I popped over an e-mail and got one pretty much straight back with the problem resolved, I was surprised by such a quick reply given the time difference. I cant wait until it arrives, I have no idea how long it will take tho - so I'll be down at the post box every day waiting for Il Postino!

And the low - realising I hadn't won ANY of the giveaways I entered from Sew Mama Sew's Giveaway Day! Oh well maybe next time. I'll have to have a giveaway of my own soon to celebrate my blog!

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More stash building

I'm pleased as punch with my latest purchases. I ventured out to Quilts n Sew Forth and pick up a few fat quarters to bulk up my stash.

First off some black and white prints, and a grey marble, all destined for a quilt loosely inspired by this one from WhatKnot and another quilt which I don't have the foggiest where I saw it, but it was all blacks, whites and greys with photos framed with solid black. (If any recognises this description - please let me know where I saw this quilt!) I want to make this quilt for Possum's grandparents with B&W pictures of her first year.

Then this lovely geometric print, I just loved the colour, and the kind of traditional look. I have this in mind for a quilt for our bed (I know a King size quilt is a bit ambitious for a novice quilter!)

This GORGEOUS 50s style print - again I just loved the colours, and the print is just too cute.

I also bought some solid Kona cotton browns and a kind of crazy Hawiian print.

Here are all my most recent additions to my stash nicely folded using this video tutorial by Kirsty from Kootoyoo

Watch this space for more stash building.......

I'm in the market......

...... for a sewing machine. Well I figured I've done the hard slog and completed one quilt completely by hand, and I'm halfway through hand piecing quilt numero dos, but I think it's high time I invested in a sewing machine. Told DH that I need to make some darker curtains for Possum's nursery, so under this pretence I have had the go ahead to make a purchase (but we all now the real reason - QUILTING!)

Possum has accompanied me in her HotSling on my quest, trawling around the shops in Singapore and the main brand I can find is Brother. I don't want to spend toooo much on said sewing machine, as I want to make sure I will definitely use it lots and won't lose interest in a few months (my usual style with hobbies). There are two models I've seen in Best Denki, the XL2220 (reasonable price) and the XL5700 (more expensive).

So here's where I need some advice; the more expensive model has a lever for lowering the feed dogs to allow me to machine quilt, and according to the lady in the shop the cheaper model has a thingy-mag-ig which fits over the feed dogs to allow me to quilt. So the upshot, do I go for it and buy the more expensive which I know I can quilt on, or save my pennies (sensible in the current economic climate) and get the cheaper one.

Answers on a postcard if you please (or alternatively just leave me a comment!)

(and here's a pic on Possum in her sling, outside Orchard MRT station)

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Whirlygig Quilt

Here's how my latest project is shaping up.

I only had enough of the cream fabric to make 20 blocks, so at the moment it's going to be 5 x 4, the blocks are 7" at the moment but will be 6.5" after seam allowance, so I'm not sure if it will be large enough - we'll just have to wait and see.

The little possum and I have had rotten colds last week, and we're just getting over them, we had to cancel all baby rendezvous so as not to spread the germ love, so it was quite a boring week! On top of this our whole "nap regime"was thrown completely off kilter - hence very little crafting was done!

I'm super duper looking forward to Wednesday, Sew Mama Sew is organising another Giveaway Day. I was going to try and make something and take part - but rubbish week = no time = didn't make anything. So I'm just going to enter as many as I can!

Have a nice Monday

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Bargain find!

I've read a couple of times of people using fleece as batting, or even as batting and backing in quilts, thinking this was a good idea, I thought I'd keep my eyes peeled for any fleece bargains to be had- and what should I stumble across in Carrefour yesterday but these babies - and reduced to Sing$2.50 each! Think I'll be going back for some more!