Feelin' festive?

I was, and so I joined in with the Lizzie Kate round of the perpetual christmas exchange, over on Hooked on Exchanging.

I had Melissa to stitch for and I chose this little cutie from L*K Tiny Tidings XV.
Love the button nose :-) I'm (im)patiently waiting to see who was stitching for me and what they stitched.

Last week I was browsing through the tutorials on Lynnes blog, when I came across the Double Fat Jack. I had an afternoon to myself, so I decided to make one :-)

Here it is waving gently in the breeze on my washing line.(Waving gently in the breeze sounds lovely doesn't it, but it does not make for easy and fast picture taking! Oh no.)

I am (im)patiently waiting for some batting to arrive and then it will be a-quilting I will go!

Fabrics used were pink regular polka dot from the Red Rose Farm line by Elizabet Scott for P & B Textiles, blue floral from Happier by Deena Rutter for Riley Blake and white Kona cotton.

In other news, it was our village gala week last week. There were events held every night including a beetle drive, quiz night, guided 3 mile walk, treasure hunt, BBQ, dance and of course the actual gala on saturday afternoon.

Highlights of the week were winning a prize in the treasure hunt for bringing a pair of knickers for one of the items :-)

The hubs getting to be the official drummer in the band :-D

And spending time with my sis as we were door staff for the dance. Bee!

There was a fancy dress competition which the kids entered.

Cameron went as a set of traffic lights.
And Caitlin went as a bunch of grapes.

Cameron didn't come away with a prize (he wasn't bothered, he won in the races!) but Caitlin won first :-)

Well that's all for today folks, I'm off to spend the rest of the day catching up with the Skill Builder Sampler blocks I've not done yet.

Sadie x