Hello

Its been a long time since I had a blog of any description and even then I was pretty bad at updating it. However, I am game to try again. After being inspired by my friend Emma, whose blog I enjoy reading, and whose quilts I admire, I have decided to give it a go.

I enjoy patchwork, applique, and cross-stitch. my downfall is that I done seem to finish anything. I have some wonderful cross-stitches that I after a few years, I did manage to finish and get framed (pictures of these will be added at some point!), but when it comes to quilts and patchwork, well i now have a couple of 'tops', and in a few other projects i am at the last bit but I just don't seem to finish it.

I am currenly in the midst of organising my 'sewing' room. Its our tiny third bedroom, that up until a couple of weeks ago also served as my 'library' and had all our filing. Our larger second bedroom had a double bed (and not much else as that took up most of hte room), and we just don't seem to get that many visitors to warrant having a guest bedroom. So I dismantle the bed with the intention of turning that room in the sewing room. but once I moved the bookcases and filing etc into the second room, i decided to leave everything related to sewing in the tiny room. the bed is still dismantled on the landing (with the mattress in the second room), and nothing is that organised, but it is a start (which I seem to be very good at!). The whole intention was to make my sewing machine more inviting (ie didn't have to climb over things to get to it) so i could get to finishing things.

I have also enrolled in some quilting classes at my local fabric shop - a machine quilting and a welsh quilting one this year and a hand quilting one next year.

so, here is my first post, lets hope it is not my last!