Put a patch on it

I was asked the other day how my hexagon quilt was progressing, so here's a photo. It is going slowly, because I'm easily distracted by other things - so much to do, so little time!

I've been shopping

I went past the Oxfam shop today and wanted to buy pretty much everything in their window display - it was full of sewing, knitting and crochet supplies. All things considered, I was pretty restrained and limited myself to three knitting, crochet & sewing magazines

and some bits of fabric that were grouped in bags at a bargain price.

Aren't they pretty?

The magazines are from 1968/1969 and I am going to enjoy looking through them. I may even make one or two things from them - although not the knitted bikini or the crocheted party dress. The fabric bits are not large, but big enough to provide me with some hexagons for my quilt and oddments for other projects.

Happy New Year!

2011 is here. I'm not really making resolutions, because I have ongoing things in my life that I want to change and carry on working at - some of which I may have mentioned in this blog. I do want to try to blog more, but I am aware how life can get in the way, so that is on a nice-to-do list rather than a resolution.

I managed to get all the Christmas presents finished in time, so didn't have to give this jumper with a sleeve missing.

And now on with 2011. Today I have baked cranberry muffins (or midi-muffins as I used ordinary cake cases for most of them), as when I went to the shops yesterday, cranberries were at a greatly reduced price :)

I have kept a few of these in a tin, but most of them have gone in the freezer bagged up in twos, so they are easy to grab for snacks/breakfast to take to work.