Happy Mothers' Day

Sharing the Love

Looking forward to a few jumpstarts to my creativity over the next few days : The new set of lessons for Dale's Holey Moley course start today- the theme for May/June is Words Words Words. I am hoping that I will be able to complete some 'pages' or other 'somethings' that may incorporate this new theme with the (so far uncompleted) pieces of fun I had during the Flower Power months.
Then it's onto quilting inspirations. On Saturday our local club has their annual ticketed event : Tote and Gloat. There are always tons of beautiful quilts to look at and be inspired by, as well as lots of tempting shopping stalls. I am really looking forward to hearing Yvonne Brown as our guest speaker this year, and I am very lucky to have got into a class with her as well. This beautiful piece made by Yvonne was featured in Quilting Arts magazine Issue 20 : Winter 2005I will be doing her Celtic Cut Workshop on Monday, and will share what happens there.
In the meantime, thought I would share the blogposts I most enjoyed seeing when I caught-up on the 2 weeks I had been away from my computer.
Patty Van Dorin has been making some lovely hand-stiched pages for a fabric book.
Cool sewn paper postcards made by iHanna.
Another beautiful post from Carolyn - I especially love her handstitched silk ribbons - and her post led me to an inspiring new-to-me blog : Textile Butterfly - Chris Gray
A beautiful piece made by Jackie of Dog-Daisy Chains - colour, movement and stich.
And if you want some reading recommendations you might enjoy these: Hope you have a happy weekend :-)

Calendar Challenge : April/May

Happy May :-) Like last month I am a few days late with showing my pages (already 28 other entries at the Kathryn Wheel!) but once more have the happy excuse of being away on holiday. April was a wonderful relaxing month. This is how April started- a close-up to better remind you of the sparkle.And this is how the pages look now. We had wonderful weather and lots of lovely beachy days so the colour scheme I picked turned out to reflect what happened perfectly.We got home from holiday a few days ago to chilly breezes and a distinctly autumn feel so these are my base pages for May. Looking forward to crackling fires on colder days, with hope for some brilliant autumn sunshine still to come. Check out the other calendar entries for May at The Kathryn Wheel or the Flickr group.