Baking, hand quilting, and time for binding.

I started the day by making some buns and muffins. I had some raspberries and blueberries but not many of each. Instead of going to my favourite recipe for the raspberry and white chocolate, I used one recommended by a friend. I wish I'd stuck with my usual recipe as they didn't rise well and took longer to cook but they are still very tasty.  I also made some blueberry and cinnamon muffins. In our family you have to make more than one type of bun, muffin or fairy cake as we all like different things. My son certainly won't touch the blueberry and cinnamon as he doesn't like the taste.

Earlier in the week John collected together the quilts I made for donation. There were three,

I thought there should be 4. I had vague memory of the quilt I'd made as a mystery quilt. Back to the cupboard. Oh no! I remember that I decided to hand quilt this one just to be able to say I had quilted one quilt by hand.

I had done very little of the hand quilting so for the last couple of days I've been working on this quilt. There is still a lot of quilting to do but at least I'm aware I need to get it finished. I would like to finished the quilting this month but I do have other projects I want to work on, however I have found the hand quilting very peaceful to do in the evening whilst watching TV so it may get finished.

Yesterday I finished the machine quilting on the dinosaur quilt and I trimmed the quilt ready to sew on the binding. I need to get the binding made today and once sewn on I can hand stitch it down. I also need to think about a quilt label. I haven't taken an up to date photo of the quilt but I will once it's all complete.

On Thursday John and I went to the Royal Academy to see the summer exhibition. Last year we were disappointed by the art work but this year was fun. I'll show you the pictures in a separate post once I've taken the photos off the camera.

This coming week is week 2 of my annual leave. We currently don't have anything particular planned but I am hoping to do a fair amount of sewing and embroidery. I also want to have a day out somewhere. Next job, check the weather forecast for the week and then chose somewhere I would like to visit. I don't want to drift through the week and achieve very little.

Take care

Lyndsey