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Thursday 19 February 2015

Birthday cake, calorie free.

You would be forgiven for thinking that all I do is sew and eat. Well you are nearly right, I like to have a real blitz at the housework then just a flick round for a few days then blitz again. This leaves me time to play to my hearts content. I have a birthday on the horizon, James will be 26 in March, plenty of time yet but it soon runs away. So as I was up at first light I played and made this,

 
I put 3 candles on it as a token gesture and once it has been quilted I will embroider a flame on each. When I make the children's I will be making them landscape and less layers. That way I will be able to put fat candles on and some embellishment.
 


 
My "Brucie Bonus" is this growing stack of patches, I have as many again to join and will then turn them into 4 patches and so on. I thought that I better separate the colours so that I get an even blend.
 
I took Maggie shopping this morning and picked up another bunch of roses, these ones have a light perfume, another bonus.

 
They have only been in the house for 5 hours and have started to open up. I hope that they last at least half as long as the last bunch.
 
Before it was fully light I took a photo of "my" mountain.
 


 
 
Swathed in mizzle but it still lifts my heart and soul to look across, Morriston is on the other side and I have heard it referred to as Morriston Mountain. Last week when walking Ben I met a hiker who was walking over it to Swansea. Rather her than me, although there was a time........
 
I have some cushion backs to make later, I will be using the Hummingbird print for most of them. I just want to find a blue for James's cushion and get that finished and put away.
 
Dinner tonight is Pork Casserole with mash and cabbage, I will have some grapefruit and orange segments if I fancy a pudding.
 
Now I am off to look for my air erasable marking pen, I dropped it this morning and it has rolled under something. I do have 2 others but this is very fine tipped and I love it, once found I will be looking to buy a few.
 
 
 
                TTFN                                                Pam

9 comments:

  1. Tell us more about your pen, not heard of it, I used a fine liner pen on my patchwork.

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    1. It was part of a Christmas gift from Francesca, I will have to ask her where it was from so that I can stock up. I know that some quilters use mechanical pencils but I use so much white that I think it might show through.

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  2. Sounds like a very busy day at your house! Your cake quilt looks great!! xx

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    1. Most of my days are busy, thank goodness, that is how I like it.

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  3. Love your cake quilting. Dinner sounds delicious too. Just finished the binding on my lap quilt today. x

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    1. I like putting the binding on, mostly I machine sew to the quilt front and then hand sew to the reverse. When I make a quilt for a child I machine to the back and then again to the front, just to give it added strength.

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  4. Love the cake. Just wonderful.
    Rosezeeta.

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  5. Lovely birthday gift in the making, lovely roses too, someone once suggested putting a little lemonade into the vase along with the water to make the flowers last a little longer, never tried it myself.

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  6. I love the cake quilt, it's beautiful and the roses are wonderful. I find it so difficult to get fragranced roses in a bunch.

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