I've lost a pattern!!

It was in a magazine. I'm not sure exactly which magazine, but definitely an older one, I recall seeing it at Parliament street, back on the Isle of Man, so pre 2012. In an Aussie mag, not a British or US mag. It was a wall hanging, with pieced poppies. 

Beautiful.

I had saved the magazine, knowing that I would one day want to use the pattern.

Yesterday it struck me, with a little adaptation, it would make the perfect table cloth.

Can't find it!

But, in my efforts to find it, I did have a clear out of magazines, I've thinned out about a third of them, which is pretty drastic for us crafty types.

I also managed to find a suitable replacement pattern, in fact, it may even be a better pattern than the one I was seeking.

So I now have a shopping list. I have very little of the required fabrics.

Shame that!

Meanwhile.

After writing the shopping list this morning, I got on and did a little more to the Christmas Story quilt.

Block 4 is completed.

But there are two weeks of May left, and I won't start the next block until June, besides Debbie is a wee bit behind this month and I don't want to race off without her, This is her first ever sew along.

I'll contemplate what else I could be getting on with, while I cross stitch this afternoon.

 Maybe something Christmassy, or a wee gift project.

It's never too early to get on with those things.

I didn't get to do any sewing over the weekend, (Well I could have, if I hadn't been searching for a pattern!) But something else did happen in my room. On Saturday it was a drear day, very overcast and a few dribbles of rain. Not the weather for working outside, so instead I suggested that Tony might put my shelves up for me.

The Inspectors have finally been installed.

From their lofty perches they can oversee pretty much everything I do here in my room.

Maybe they will even help me finally get to grips with the quilting frame! 

The room is starting to come together. There are still pictures I want to hang and one or two mini quilts also to hang, but all in good time.

We also finally got some more pictures up in the entrance hall.

I have a collection of family photos spread about out there.

Feels good to have loved ones looking down on me as I move about my home.

We also went out and purchased a fancy curtain pole.

There is some debate about where that could be installed, you see it will not be going above a window....

Sunday was a better day for being out of doors, while I searched for quilt patterns, Tony and his dad went to get timber and earth for inside the green house.

It now has a central footpath, awaiting paviers.

We didn't put the earth in yet. One final squirt with weed killer on the base before that goes down.

Then I can fill it with earth and get some plants in there.

I'm off to stitch.