Mrs Teatowel Goes To War!!!

The new all singing and dancing carpet cleaner arrived on Saturday.......within 24 hours of ordering. Very impressed.
So today I am taking advantage of hubby being here for shifting furniture and I am going to do battle with the filthy carpets to try and rid them of their coating of winter grime from muddy shoes, coal fire dust and smelly dog.
I am expecting great things of this beast of a machine so we'll see how it does.

It looks like hubby has evening meal prep under control so there is maybe a chance he will cook it too....bless him. So once the carpets are done I can get back to my quilt top making.

Gosh....it's very warm here already so I'll be flinging the windows open for sure and letting some breeze in.

I'll catch up with you all later when all my housewifely duties are done.
Thanks for stopping by.
Sheila-x-

Another Sew Shop Show!!!

This was my sewing shop from Saturday.
More rulers to add to my quilting tool arsenal.
The Christmas fabric is to go with other fabric I have to make a Sit For Santa quilt for my girls. The idea is to put it on the floor on Christmas morning and they sit on it to open their presents......as long as they have been good enough to get presents.....lol.
The Moda Vintage Picnic is for a quilt for Marlowe.
The Red Rooster ten fat quarter stack couldn't be passed up....it was reduced from nearly £30 to £10. It will make a fabulous beach quilt for Ruby and Marlowe.
DD has chosen the two darker fabrics from my stash for her bag and she bought the lighter fabric for a lining from the same range.
So much fabric, so many ideas.....where do I start? Well I will start by finishing the Christmas quilt top over the next couple of days. It's coming along very nicely.

Simple food today. We are having fish with salad and garlic and parmesan roast potatoes. That means I can get my sewing done in between loads of laundry and not have to spend all day preparing our evening meal.
I was going to dry the washing outside but some mighty spiteful looking black clouds are gathering so I don't think I will even attempt it today.

Hope all is bright and sunny where you are.
Sheila-x-

Crafty As A Cartload Of Monkeys!!!

Oh yes that was me yesterday. 
To avoid having to go out for a meal I came home with the fixings for a barbecue. I wouldn't normally buy those overpriced packs of meat but T's had some really nice ones at 3 for £10. Threw in some corn on the cob, a bowl of salad, coleslaw, potato salad and some crusty rolls and it was absolutely gorgeous....even though hubby was a grumpy old git at being thwarted.....lol. 
It meant that I was happier to go out for lunch today. We didn't go far....just up to the next village and we had a really lovely meal all freshly cooked and beautifully served. 
I still came out asking the same old question though......why in gawds name can nobody do proper roast potatoes. Today they looked like boiled potatoes that had been put under the grill to brown them off. They had definitely never seen the inside of an oven.

The trip to Derby was about the quickest DD and I have ever done. Out at 8:30am and back home by 10:30am.
Nothing to tempt me fabricwise on the market so all I came home with was a pineapple prep tool, an address book, a magnetic shopping list/meal planner thingy to put on the fridge and a magazine. I soon put that right though by going off to the patchwork shop. DD went off the idea of the skull bag and has set her sights on some fabric I already have in so she just bought the lining fabric. I'll take some pics tomorrow and show you what I bought.

I've just had a blissful half hour or so having my hair sorted out by DD and my toes being licked by Smudge the dog. Eeeeeh it were just like being at a salon. So now I am all relaxed and just about to start on the next stage of the scrappy Christmas quilt. The 4.5 x 2.5 strips are now sewn into 4.5 x 4.5 squares and I now need to sew those into 8.5 x 8.5 squares.
Another job I have lined up is to make myself a pressing board. Hubby has just cut me a piece of wood so I need to sort out some batting offcuts and a piece of fabric to cover it and that's another piece of kit off my list.

Hope you are all having a fabulous day. The sun is shining here.
Thanks for stopping by.
Sheila-x-

Up With The Lark!!!

..........or judging by all the chattering.....the sparrers....lol.

I gave myself an early night to bed last night and I feel so much better for it this morning. I've been up since 6:30am and have a load of laundry done already.
Just about to get myself ready for a trip into Derby with DD. She wants me to make her a bag from the pattern I got at Hobbycraft last week and we have to go in search of some skull fabric and a script type fabric for lining.....bet I won't find those in the remnant bins.

Hubby wants to take us out for a meal tonight....I would rather not but hey ho....I expect I shall give in and go. He also wants to take us out for lunch tomorrow but I will try and get out of that one.

I can hear DD stirring so I'll go and get myself sorted out.
Hope you all have a fab weekend. The weather is supposed to be good.
Thanks for stopping by.
Sheila-x- 

Blue, Green And White!!!

I am not a lover of spring or summer but even I couldn't fail to be awed by the beauty of our little bit of countryside as we went into town last night. The vivid bluebells in the copse we pass, the lush green fields and the gorgeous sight of the white lacy cow parsley growing along the verges. 
The hawthorn trees wearing their white veils are everywhere here as far as the eye can see and look so beautiful.
This morning we have another blue to add to the mix in the shape of a blue sky.
How lucky we are.

Thank you all so much for your comments yesterday.
There is quite a sad story behind hubby's eating habits. I won't go into the details but suffice it to say that due to things that happened in his late childhood/early adulthood he has an abject fear of being hungry and of there not being enough food. I have been trying to help him overcome this for forty years and he is better than he was at one time. I do cook good nutritious meals for us all but whereas DD and I are happy with fish or chicken and salad he always has to have potatoes or bread with it else he thinks he will be hungry.
I have won quite a lot of battles with him over his food but there is still a good way to go to win the whole war.

I am just about to start on my sewing together of the bits for the quilt. It wasn't started last night as I was exhausted by the time we got in from town at 7pm. We just had our beans on toast and watched a couple of programmes on the  Freeview channel True Crime until it was time for hubby to get home and then I had to get up and see to his supper. I should really be out in the garden. The lawns need mowing but I can't use the huge lawnmower we have.....well I could if I fancied a trip round the estate clinging on to the back of it and mowing down everything in my path.....lol.

Anyhoo.......I will tidy the dining table, crank up the Singer and get me some sewing done.
Bye for now.
Sheila-x-