A quiet week

Thank you all you lovelies for your kind wishes and prayers for my husband. It always amazes me how the blogging community from the four corners of the globe, support each other in times of trouble; it is a joy to behold. I feel very thankful and blessed!

We have had a lovely, quiet week with no dramas; almost boring, one could say. =) Believe it or not, my husband has been out tending his garden which Ole Man Winter has decimated. My husband figures that he has four weeks to get the garden in order before his operation, because afterwards there will be another period of time when he will have to lie low. When I look at our garden at this time of the year, I always despair at the bleakness of it. I always wonder if  Spring will truly come again and visit us, bringing with it floralicious delight.

As for me I finished stitching the backing for my scrappy-licious quilt.

Now how to quilt?? I really warmed to the idea of straight stitching lines through the diagonal corners, but as my frozen shoulder isn't up to grappling with all the bulkiness of the quilt  I decided to put the quilt on my quilting frame and stitch meandering stitches all over. The frame I have enables me to sit my machine on rollers, enabling me to stitch whichever direction I choose.

For some reason or other quilting on my frame was fraught with botheration. My frame decided not to play nicely at all! I found it difficult to guide the machine over the quilt as there are so many seams both on the quilt top and quilt backing. The needle kept getting stuck, especially in the corners, resulting in  a not so flowing, meandering stitch pattern in some areas. Also for some reason the quilt wasn't taut in the middle resulting in small puckers......so, so exasperating!

So enough was enough. I took the quilt off the frame and finished quilting on my sewing machine, moving it from side to side, up and down and round and round.....this way, that way....any which way. So much for taking it easy on my shoulder. =)

With the quilting completed I machine stitched the binding on using a pretty floral fabric.

I love this fabric. When I happened upon this pretty fabric I bought metres and metres of it. Alas this is the last of it. Are you like me? Do you get a little sad when a much-loved fabric is no more?

With the quilt finished I am happy with my scrappy quilt. I rather like the meandering effect of the quilting, though I doubt this pretty would win any quilting prizes; no perfect or precision stitching to be seen here. The bright and happy colours and pattern do make me smile. There really is something about a quilt oozing scrappy charm. This pretty does sprinkle a little sunshine and happiness on a rather gloomy, Winter's day.

Miss Maisie has given me her nod of approval.

Finally, after two years, this quilt is done and dusted. One more quilt to be ticked off the 'to do list' .........that I don't keep. =) Now to attend to some other quilts that are waiting to be finished......

My pretty, Cathedral Window.......

and my pretty, scrappy hexie........

I will endeavour to work on these over the next few months; but alas, me wouldn't be me if I didn't start one or two other 'I-just-need-to-make' pretty quilts. After all variety is the spice of life. Me thinks there just might be the beginnings of one or two more scrappy-licious quilts making an appearance sometime soon, down here at the bottom of the world.

Ooooh.....scrappy heaven!

Home is more the sweeter with a few scrappy quilts lying around.....is it not??

Wishing you all a lovely week in your Home Sweet Home.

Until the next time........