CRAFTY CAPER CATCH-UP.

Alas, time seems to have  whizzed by just lately & all those posts that I say I'm going to do, don't make it to the blog.  Time to rectify that with a small catch up post.

MY LATEST SILLINESS.
DD gave me a small game called Bananagrams & I've taken to doing the solitaire version to relax occasionally.  Similar to the tiles from scrabble, I take 21, turn them over & try to make sensible words that are interlinked & using every letter.  Just a quick snap from one I did, without changing any of the tiles.

DH'S LATEST WOODWORKING.

Pens he has turned from assorted timber & my acrylic one with rubber tip for my tablet.

My 'puddy cat'.
 We saw one of these on sale somewhere & when we came home he drew it up & here he is.

This beautiful lantern was made after I showed him a picture from the internet with some similar ones and about 2 days later, he sauntered down from The Shed, with his hands behind his back & "voila", this is what he produced.  I still need to varnish it & will use it as a prop in quilt photo shoots.  Aren't I the luckiest girl?

Joint Effort.

Filling in a bit of time.  DH made the Lazy-Susan base & I painted it, papered the tins & titivated, then loaded up my assorted colour pencils, which were held in various different places.

QUILTING.
These 4 quilts have all been shown at various times in different stages of construction.  All have been quilted & bound during December, January & early February.

Water Meadow (left) & Judy's Promise (right).
Both were designed on my Quilt Wizard program.

Jacob's Medallion, also designed with my Quilt Wizard.

Magnolia Mystery quilt was a mystery quiltalong last year.
I followed along with the Meadow Mist blog.
It was designed by the very talented Cheryl Brickey.

The next two quilts I accidentally omitted from my Talking Quilts post.  The stars I used on both of these quilts also came from the same book by Nancy Johnson -Srebo.  Both are again my settings.

The 7 Bronwyn Hayes embroideries, set together with the stars to my own design on graph paper.

This was made many, many years ago to use the lovely old-fashioned panels I'd purchased way back, when?.

CROCHET.
Below is a scrap crochet granny square.  Just using up some of my Stylecraft leftovers.  This was one of those easy relaxing evening pursuits.

And what do you do on hot smokey days?
Why, a WASGIJ...................... or two.

This one was bought many years ago as it had a Morris Minor on the front.  I think this is the third time we've done it.  Now this time, it was because we'd found another with a MM on the front, and I bought it for DH as early birthday present.  His birthday is next Friday, but we've done it already.  Well mostly, he's done it.

Not the best quality, but on the table in this corner of our loungeroom is quite dark most of the day, so that is the light shining off the puzzle and box.  We thought it may have some of the elements of the first, but no, it is to celebrate the 20th anniversary of WASGIJ's.

LASTLY, A BIT FROM OUR RATHER FORLORN GARDEN.

A poor butterfly I rescued from the bird's water bowl, which must have later flown away.

The roses are looking good at times.

My tiger lily actually flowered despite the heat, after not flowering for the last two years.

Ah, I think that is enough chattering & chuntering from me.  We are off to the Lost Trades Fair tomorrow, so need an early night.  It was car club meeting today, got home well after lunchtime and bustled around making blueberry mini muffins, picnic lunch, folding clothes, preparing tea, then this post.  Think I'm ready for a much needed sit-down break.
Hope everyone is having a great weekend, take care & huggles.