Stars and Baubles Quilt

 We have quite a festive theme here today, as a new quilt is complete..... the stars and baubles quilt is finished.............i promised to show you what the stars were for last time........they were to applique on my little quilt.......

 ...............i used the flower sugar holiday fabrics from lecien and i hand quilted around the stars and created a little bauble stencil to draw round for quilting the patterned squares..........

 .............this was a really quick quilt  to make as i rotary cut all the squares and machine sewed them together so the top was made in no time at all....i then slowed it all down by blanket stitching round the applique stars by hand......but it was relaxing to do while we watched *the crown* on netflix...........

 ..............i love the fresh vibrant colours of this collection and still have more to make with it :) ....

 ............a flat shot showing the quilted baubles and the echo quilting round the stars......

 .............pinning on the binding in my (untidy) sewing room............

 ....................some fabric sweeties from my last but one book (pretty patchwork gifts).......

 ..............and here is my make for december's crafts beautiful magazine.........a little christmas mouse.........she has flower sugar fabric ears and skirt, a hand knitted jumper with a cross stitch star patch, and a nice woolly scarf to keep her cosy..............you can find more about crafts beautiful here...............

 .................also in the picture above is a festive pincushion and scissor keeper....more about these soon.........

 ............we have just returned from a lovely wintry weekend at the seaside....we went to beautiful beaumaris on the isle of anglesey, and stayed in a gorgeous cottage with our younger daughter, son in law and sweet littlest grandson.............we had such a fun time..........i took lots of pictures especially of the pretty cottage interior which i haven't had time to sort out yet, but will do soon.......meanwhile here are some atmospheric twilight shots my girl took, and one of the cottage front door............

 .................and one of the sunset over beaumaris bay.........more about our mooching there soon ......

...............thank you for dropping by to see me here dear readers, and thank you to everyone who takes time to comment....it is always a real treat to hear from you.......wishing you a wonderful week, keep cosy and enjoy plenty of happy crafting..................back soon xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx