flying away...

...not this minute, but tomorrow! off to houston to promote summersville, ekk! this includes chatting to the moda reps about myself and my fabric for 15 minutes, OMG. then i've got to do it all over again when the internation reps arrive in the evening...i'm not thinking too much about that because if i do, i might not go ;) in amongst all the serious business of fabric design i hope to have a lot of silliness and fun. i'll be on the plane with katy and aneela so the 10 hour flight should whizz past, especially as aneela is going to pass on her crochet and embroidery skills! and i can't wait to meet some of the many twitter and blogs pals, especially sarah, thomas, michelle and jan. i hope to keep you up to date with what's going on, but bear in mind i'm not the most tech savvy person in the world which is why i design with pen and paper. see you in a week!

feathers...

it's funny to think this time last week i was tearing my hair out over this quilt. for 2 days. then i woke up the following day, and a feeling of calm came over me and i stitched like a mad woman and a few hours later the top was finished. it was definitely a hard fought battle though, this quilt...mum and i had to unpick half a quilt's worth of quilting over the weekend, i'm afraid to say i wasn't keen on what mum had done (yes, i did feel like a total cow...) but then all of a sudden, it was finished and bound and looking *fantastic* i'm not sure what i can do to thank mum for all this amazing work...other that make her proud of me at houston! x

a little scream...

...escaped from me when i arrived home this afternoon - 4 boxes of tape sat awaiting to be coo-ed over and stroked and kissed and hugged and photographed. they will be available in my etsy shop within the next half hour or so at some point in the next few hours, i hadn't realised it's time to get dinner ready! done and in the shop right this very minute! ...and for the first time, you'll be able to buy one of each colour at a special price, which is marvellous news...and even better news is that now i'm no longer doing wholesale, i've been able to reduce the price by a pound for single rolls too. how good is that???

a little bit silent...

...but behind the scenes it's all a bit crazy. i'm preparing lots of goodies to take over to houston and the flower quilt (which i decided to call summersville bloom, although thanks for the suggestions, they were all great) is now quilted and bound. i couldn't get a great shot of the whole thing, but i just had to show all that lovely texture, it really brings the quilt to life. you can just peek a little bit of border - it's worked brilliantly and really pulled the piece together. quilt number 3 is on the quilt frame and i hope to show you some of that this week along with some other summersville magic ;)

being pollyanna

i've had a bit of a crappy day today work wise, but i decided to look for things about the day to be glad about. one of them is this amazing vintage fabric found at the 'help the aged' charity shop in town. there were 3 pieces marked at £2 a piece and each of them is at least a metre wide by 1.5 metres long. i don't know what i'll use it for yet, but i shall add it to my vintage fabric finds bag (much of which was given to me by wonderful anna) and one day i'll make the most amazing quilt. this was one of those items that screamed out to me from across the shop - you know the ones that make you elbow people in the face to get to? well, that was me this morning. i'm getting my comeuppance now though, as i'm a little bit meh. so what do you do when you feel a bit meh? make a pineapple upside down cake of course. which is in the oven as i type. another reason to be glad. what makes you glad?

i spy...

with my little eye...just thought this was cute - a beautifully photographed bundle of loveliness - can you spot some summersville? i can see three pieces...(click on the photo to make it bigger)

flower quilt, a little bit more...

so, the flower quilt (amazing name needed, any ideas? was thinking 'summersville spring'...) went together with surprising ease and very quickly. i was a bit ambitious to begin with, i thought i'd make it 5 x 5 (making 25 blocks) but really, what was i thinking? 3 x 3 is plenty big enough, especially with a rather marvellous piano key style border (will show pictures when quilted) this would be especially sweet in a little girl's bedroom, on the wall or made bigger for a single bed - it's quite modern and punchy. i'm really happy with how it turned out and can't wait to see it quilted! poor mum is getting seriously overworked, but i think she's enjoying the challenge, secretly ;)

a little glimpse...

flower quilt, originally uploaded by lusummers.

of the next quilt...busy stitching away and so far, i'm loving this!

ta da!

mum's finished the quilting, hurrah! i'm SO in love with this quilt, it's one of those rare projects where it's come out looking exactly how i wanted it to! and the quilting is fabulous, if you want to see it a bit better, do click through on each photo to view it bigger - you'll see much clearer detail. mum will attach the binding today, then we'll hand stitch it tomorrow. one quilt down, 2 to go. more on quilt number 2 tomorrow! x