what? where? why?

If you used to read this blog back in the day, you might wonder what happened? Where did I go? Why did I not post here? Well, to be honest, nothing happened, I didn't go anywhere and I was posting on another blog that I'd started instead. There was nothing wrong with doing that but recently, I've been thinking a lot about this blog and wanted to come back to it. So I have.

I've just spent the whole morning reposting posts from that new blog on to this one - hence the new name on the photos. There's no point in looking for the other blog as I've set it to private so it'll not show up. No point in having 2 blogs that say the same thing!

Now I have to re-set my profile so it's this blog that shows up. I wonder if I can remember how that's done? Then I need to clean my sewing machine and get down and make something from my list of things I want to make. There's a lot on that list and sitting here just playing on blogger won't get any of that done.

So that's the what, where and why. Now I have to get on with the doing and posting on here again. My happy place. My blog. It's lovely to be back! I'll leave you with one of my favourite quotes. It comes from Nora Roberts' book "Tears of the Moon" and was said by a father to a daughter.

July bits - a bit late!

I'm a bit late showing off the things I made in July. Oh well, better late than never, eh?

I started the month by making another Monty shirt - the last one for now.

I've been wearing all 6 of my Monty shirts all summer and love each and every one of them!

I noticed one day as I hung out the washing that a couple of my nighties were showing signs of wear. No shame to them! So I dug out a couple of pieces of fabric and made another two to replace the old ones.

These are using an old, old pattern which I got to make nighties to go into the maternity hospital when I was having Debbie. Debbie has just celebrated her 44th birthday! Yikes! This is the pattern - long out of print!

I was watching a youtube video about making a Christmas quilt in July. I decided to join in and made some of the blocks:

After making those four, I decided I wasn't going to join in after all. The blocks weren't hard but, oh my goodness, the amount of work involved and all those bumpy seams just weren't my idea of fun. So, for now, those blocks have been put into the "orphan blocks" box and will, no doubt, be added to a quilt some time in the future.

Next, I made some cloths out of old towels. I get 6 cloths out of each handtowel so, in a very short time, I had 18 new cloths. Very happy with that!

I had enough fabric left from my nighties to make each of the girlies a wee top for the summer. Their favourite colours are pink and purple so that was lucky! They're already in Canada with my girlies.

Lastly, some blocks for my next quilt. One of my plans for the year was to use up more scraps. (I don't call them New Year's Resolutions as that's a sure fire way of failing!) I LOVE these blocks - so easy to make and, because I'll do the QAYG method to join them together (quilt-as-you-go), they'll be made into a quilt quite quickly.

I've actually finished the quilt - as of yesterday - but I'll save the post about it until I show my August makes. :o)