Eleanor overload

It's ages since I posted an update on Eleanor, so here is some of the backlog of photos!

She still looks as though she'll start crawling properly any day - as she has for the last month! But she's certainly getting faster wiuth her commando style. This morning I was changing James' nappy, and she followed us all the way from the far corner of the lounge through the living areas, down the hall and into James' bedroom at the end.

Her second tooth appeared a few weeks ago, and I finally got a photo of them today. Of course the only one showing the teeth wasn't quite in focus! I think the top pair are moving now, too.

Her first solids. "What are you trying to do to me???"

Trying to escape!

Eleanor and I:

At Marion pool in her swimsuit:

This can't be my child! She was having a wonderful time!

At Kensington Pool, and starting to go a bit blonde!

Reading; her favourite is the soft teddy's tummy:

Skye and Eleanor!

Peek-a-boo! I love this outfit:

James loves to tow his trailer, and asked for a special load:

Among the stash!

Trying to make friends with Shadow:

Sitting! She sat for over half an hour, while I took photos of a quilt, then her:

The ladybird she got for Christmas; still a bit big!

Quatro Lego:

Those teeth:

Look! Crab!!!

James was very concerned last night about something on his bedroom floor. Busy at the time, I asked what it was. "It's crab!" came the response! Upon arrival in his room, we gingerly walked across the rug to find...... the remainder of the apple peel he'd been eating the other day while I was cooking up a batch of fruit for Eleanor. He's caught and seen cooked crabs several times at Port Hughes, and red apple peel, curled and dried, does look remarkably like crabs' legs!!!

And here is a large and relatively recent selection of photos of James:

Not sure what he was trying to achieve here:

Marion Pool:

Threading grapes on a feather at Kensington Pool:

Playing with Eleanor:

Reading to Eleanor:

Up on my feet - he later let go with his hands, too!

Helping Andrew watering on a hot day (he wasn't in the sun long):

The right sport; Andrew would be proud:

He wouldn't have a nap, and wouldn't, and wouldn't...

The current obsession - pegs!

With most of his soft toys in his tunnel:

A perfect evening

Cricket and Quilting! C'mon Aussies!

I have made a good start with the quilting on Ellie's quilt.

But ran out of the red cotton, so made a final choice on the fabrics for the Goddess' Raffle Quilt and have started cutting the pieces:

And here's a peek at a small side project I've just finished:

Missing Fabrics

I came across a link to this Missing Fabrics website yesterday, and wanted to share. It's a free quilters' service, where you can post for any fabric you want and can't find; then other quilters and quilt shops check to to see if they have any. Apparently they have a 65%-70% success rate. I've added a permanent link to it on the right; with the quilting links down the bottom.

I'm trying it out for some Paula Nadelstern Symmetry fabrics for more snowflakes. I've already had one email from someone who's going to check their shop on Monday; she thinks she has one!

more maths... 11 kids + 5 mums =

Mayhem! And it could have been more so, with another 4 kids and 2 mums who couldn't make it!

Yesterday we had lots of visitors, from 2 of my parents' groups on Essential Baby. Five babies, three 2-year-olds, and three 3-4 year-olds. Lots of fun, lots of noise, and relatively little damage from the invasion. It was lovely to see everyone again, although we missed a couple of people.

Tagged!

Hillbillies and Motherships have been tagging me while I was sleeping. (I had a headache, and got Simon to come home early and look after James and Eleanor while I slept.)

So here is why I blog:

1. Because fellow quilters AJ and Helen nagged me to, to share my quilting.

2. To show off my quilting!

3. To show off my gorgeous children!

4. Because it's fun.

5. It is a great way for me to record my quilty progress. I had always intended to journal my quilting, but was just too slack (until a lovely quilting journal came my way in the DIN05 Mummies' Secret Santa on EB!). And it's great for keeping friends and family a bit more up to date with how James and Eleanor are growing - when I get around to updates!

I tag my fellow quilters AJ, Helen and Joy

The sum of 372...

Hello whoever you are in Minnesota! I keep seeing you've come to this post. and I'm curious! Drop me a line and say hello!


...is hopefully more than 372 in this case.

This is my Round Robin centre. I used one of Paula Nadelstern's snowflake patterns, from her Snowflakes & Quilts book I bought many years ago because I just loved the cover, and without knowing if I would ever attempt one myself. I've enjoyed reading the book several times. As she says in her book, 'the whole is greater than the sum of the parts'. I agree.


So here is the 22" hexagon, just needing the setting triangles to complete the 372 pieces.

Some of the pieces are less than half the size of my little fingernail, which is why I have included some closer images - and I've left them bigger than usual, so you should be able to click on the image to see them in more detail.

UPDATE: HERE is the quilt when it returned to me I'll add more links when I have better photos, and when it's finished.

WAAAHHHHH!

I have been so busy all weekend, that I forgot to go and use my eQuilter voucher before it expired :(

Winnie the Pooh fabric

So many people have asked after the Classic Pooh fabric I bought recently, that I thought I'd post here that I got it from eQuilter. Click on search store and search for Pooh (or the exact phrase classic pooh - if you don't choose exact, you will get hundreds which have the word classic in their description, but nothing to do with Pooh!)

And now I can finish

Although that's a long way off just yet! I have to confess to a fair amount of relief that the others agreed to an extension!

Yesterday and today brought the remaining 2 orders of fabric. All 77.75y have arrived. Much of is is going (or has gone) straight into commissioned quilts, but my stash is now a healthy 718m.

More for the Round Robin (the navy is the background):

Still more for the round Robin (the bottom two are Paula Nadelstern prints)

And a couple more Paula Nadelstern prints, this time with two helpers!