Baby still has no name...

Our friends wee baby boy born on 8th December still has no name :(

I had said no photo's of baby until he had been given his quilt - though I can't give the quilt until I have a name... and I just KNEW you'd be wanting to see a pic of the wee boy. Just TOO cute...

We are going to visit on Sunday - with the quilt stowed in the car (with pigma pen so can complete the label LOL) just in case a name has been decided (fingers and toes are crossed)...

Hugs

Last stitch has been stitched in the nick of time...

Our friends baby has arrived today ... baby boy... 5 pound 5 oz's ... no name as yet - though I'm channelling "Hunter" into their thoughts :) Mum and Bub are doing well, Dad is exhausted!!

And the last stitch went into the baby quilt binding at 10.15pm tonight - label is nearly complete - have named the quilt "Star Light Star Bright" - now just waiting for the baby's name so can add that to the label...

Next photo of quilt for the blog will be with new baby in picture frame... ah another round of patience required for...

Can't wait to give the new mum a hug and have my first cuddle of baby, new dad will get a slap on the back for a job well done LOL

Baby Quilt update...

Have worked over the last two days trying to get the baby quilt finished - the mum & dad to be are having a C-section tomorrow - so I'll have wonderful news soon...

Well yesterday lunchtime I was still blanket stitching around the dragonflies on the top, and had yet to sandwich, and pin, which am pleased to say had completed and well into the quilting last night - after unpicking the large stippling as it looked all wrong for this quilt. I did a little more quilting this morning, then took Beck's and her friend up to Harcourt Park, while they were there I went and visited Yvonne at Sawmillers Quiltery - shopped a little (well how can one resist), had a cuppa with Yvonne while cutting threads off the quilt ready for the final quilting when got home late this afternoon...

So the quilting was all finished by 9.30pm tonight - don't the dragonflies look so cute now, and then it was sorting out fabric for the binding, cut, stitch, iron and sew onto the quilt - yeah all done by 10.30pm - ready for handstitching tomorrow night - phew!! Another UFO can now be taken off the to-do-list...

Oops nearly forgot - haven't done a label yet - mind I haven't thought of a name for this quilt yet - I keep thinking of ... Starlight Starbright... hmm not sure...

First off ....

Some pictures from the garden... I'm quite the lazy gardener with a few lovely roses in pots that often get neglected or over-loved, and the rest of the gardens have been planted in very low maintenance plants...

This yellow rose the girls gave me for mother's day, I already nearly killed it by over watering - eek - though after realising I was relishing too much love on it - held back the watering and its finally come away again - phew...


Cute little caterpillar crawling up the mis-happen table that holds the washing basket and pegs...

Jazz (Kaitlyn's cat) being silly...

This lovely rose, my wonderful Mum-in-law (MumS) gave me not long after we moved into the house...

And look who are FEASTING on my rose buds !!!

Any suggestions on a non-toxic spray that will encourage the 'little buggers' to leave my roses alone?? In the past I've just left them to it hoping the birds and bigger bugs would take care of getting rid of them - much to the detriment of the poor roses, so this year I'm going to 'love' my roses and take better care of them... my sister (junior witch) said they love chopped up banana skins sprinkled around their base - so I've got the kids saving the skins for chopping...

What about this amazing cloud formation from this afternoon - looks so luscious and fluffy...

Righto - next post will be some stitching progress...

My SSCS 2008 package has arrived...

Arrgh this is so cruel - a box has arrived from Stevensville, USA, addressed to me - with SSCS : DO NOT OPEN TIL CHRISTMAS DAY...

I can't even work out who my SSCS swap partner is - so I can't even sneak a 'lurk' at their blogsite to get any clues...

THANK YOU SO MUCH to my SSCS swap partner - I promise to be good and wait until Christmas Day.

Congrat's to Elf Donna for organising such a great swap :)

With thanks...

Got a lovely surprise yesterday in that I have been nominated for "Kreativ Blogger Award" by my friend Deb. It was a great lift to a bad week...

The rules of the award are:

1. The winner may put the logo on her blog.

2. Put a link to the person you got the award from in your blog.

3. Nominate 5 blogs.

4. Put links to the blogs.

5. Leave a message for your nominees.

Hmm, I read, comment and lurk amongst many blogs so to choose just 5 is not so easy as you don't want to offend anybody by not nominating them, and then the people you do nominate you hope that they will be pleased to get the award... anyway here goes:

1. Agnes Coy (Alison) - So Tread Softly

2. Leanne - The Stitching Room

3. Suzi-Q - Quilting in Stitches

4. Jannelle - Heart Felt

5. The Ginger Darlings - We Three, Ginger cats - not a quilting blog however I love the adventures the ginger cats and young Rosie get up to and the photo's and poems are gorgeous

I hope you will stop by and visit the above blogs, and enjoy them as much as I do.

Hugs