I've signed up to be in a 5" charm swap... I haven't started cutting yet   o_O  Yikes! The lovely part about this swap is that you get what you put in, so if i put in 100, I'll get back 100. Pretty fair. Can't wait to see what I get. I definitely think it will become a postage stamp type of quit, or... well the mind boggles. There are so many choices out there.

Back to the swap being put up at The Humming Cat ...In these swaps, you can't afford to be fussy or in my opinion, offer "rule" suggestions, you get what you get, and you don't get upset. (Thanks Rose ;) )

I have too many WIP's happening at the moment... will be back to show you what I have to send off in the swap...

The day that rolled on...

I revisited an old love today... rollerskating. My daughters and I headed off to the rink at midday for some beginner lessons.  A few decades have passed between visits for me, but the skates are exactly the same :O Beige and ugly.

The girls and I started out very tentatively, very. We were told to do small scissors to get moving and other things to get us used to the motion of the roller-skates...yep, we went old school.
We completed our lesson and were invited to stay and practice till the next session started at 2pm.
2pm, became 4pm. My girls obviously loved it as much as I did at their age. My only regret was selling my speed skates.

We've agreed that this should be a fortnightly event, monthly at the very most. We all loved it and we don't get to spend nearly enough quality time together as girls.

It's been a long time between quilts...

Now, I've made a few quilts before, nothing spesh or perfect, but certainly the best I could do at the time. A few months ago, I made mention on Facebook that the weather made me feel like making a quilt. Before I knew it, I was being invited into a private group of stitchers... (*squeal!*) To my knowledge, none of my other mummy friends are stitchers or quilters.

I've been constructing a quilt in a sewing class I enrolled into at a local community centre, so that I could learn to read patterns and make far more than quilts and very basic things.

One of the ladies in our group found a Beginners Quilt Along on another blog and encouraged us all to jump in. I hesitated, cos frankly I thought two quilts was enough at one time, (neither has been completed as I sit here). I sat back and watched their choices in fabric, their blocks came to life and most of them have won random weekly prizes for their efforts. (Yay lovelies!)
It took 3 weeks/blocks before I caved, not only did I cave, I brought my two daughters nearly 7 & just turned 9 with me...

If you're a quitler, it's not too late to join on in. It's one block per week with a 12 or 13 block quilt at the end.... It's for beginners, so even if you aren't a quilter yet, this could be the beginning of it all for you.

Here is a sample of some of our efforts so far...

The one above is my 9yo's first block EVER! (Block 4)

This is my 7 yo's first block of the quilt along (Block 4)

This is my favourite, so far, of my blocks (Block 2)

My 7 yo's first block (Block 2)

This was my first block of the BQA (Block 4)