On Hold!

So, I have made an executive desicion! All things quilty or stitchy is on hold until my house is sorted out once and for all! We moved in here 16 months ago, Ciára was 7 weeks old, we co-ordinated 4 weeks of renos, we then had Ciára's naming day with 50 people here then we went to Ireland for a month and NOTHING GOT DONE PROPERLY!!!! Since then we have shuffled, jammed in cupboards and moved around...in total frustration!! We have gotten to the point where enough is enough! Last Friday afternoon off we trotted to Ikea where we spent a small fortune on storage. We got home and we were go! Storage set up and toys sorted, dining room and family room re-arranged, huge Vinnies clear out from our wardrobe and chest of drawers, bathroom cupboard properly organised (all MAC in lidded storage boxes so no more little 18 month old fingers having a ball experimenting with lovely colours), the cupboard and chest in the study totally sorted and decluttered (this part was fun as my fabrics , patterns and quilty mags/books are in the chest), laundry decluttered as it was a bit of a dumping ground. All we need to do now is sort out the girls bedrooms, iron the 3 huge baskets of Mt Everest high piles! The girls rooms are in the process and we aim to have them completed by this weekend. Thankfully the kitchen was done a month or so ago when I went Tupperware mad! Then there is just the garage to go - this will be a mission, there are boxes to be unpacked, unused furniture to be sorted, and generally just STUFF everywhere. AS this is not a 2 hour job, we will wait for Dave's parents to arrive from Ireland and then go for it whilst they are amusing the girls...

So people, there will be even less quilty goodness from me than there usually is...but once my sanity has returned after satifying the soul experience then I will be back with more time and feeling more relaxed to do all of my quilting pleasuredom guilt free as I will only have 50 things on my to do list, rather than 500! (that is not counting the 500 things on the quilty to do list ! LOL)

See you when some creativity starts to flow again!

The Frustration is Killing Me!

I finally went and bought a walking foot for my machine last weekend. I have made do without it until now and have been fortunate enough that there hasn't been too much puckering on my quilts (except the Flannelette one that has ended up as a dolls quilt for the girls) but I thought it was time to start doing things properly! Dave went off to Singapore on Monday, and as much as I miss him when he is away on his trips, I usually rub my hands together with glee as I know how much sewing I can achieve in the evenings. So, out comes the walking foot, I attach it, seems easy enough even though the screw won't go in the whole way it is all tight EXCEPT for the needle is loose...minor detail - NOT!!! I have now tried to get the screw in further so many times that it's stuck and I can't unscrew it! As much as I hate to say it, I need a man to fix it!!! Dave is home tomorrow so here's hoping we can sort it out and I can try and catch up on it all. I had planned to quilt Strawberry Lemonade and try and get it bound as well as to make the bunting for Zoe's window...Sigh! All is not in vain though, I have spent plenty of time on my cross stitch and it is coming along nicely. I will add photos when I have a little more time.

It has been a busy week though and I am tired and looking forward to hearing the cab pull up at about 7am tomorrow morning to deliver Dave home to us! He will take the day off and come to swimming and we will take the girls out in the afternoon, a long weekend with him will be lovely. I am going to see Priscilla on Saturday with a girlfriend, really looking forward to that!