A Bunny and a Quilt

 Happy new week dear readers..........today we have the newly finished quilt called 'gather the flowers' (named from a line in a poem)............

 ..............i really loved making this quilt, choosing the fabrics and planning the design and then quilting it by hand.......now i'm writing the pattern so i can eventually share it..........

 .................gather the flowers but spare the buds............wise words :) ..............

 ...........the fabrics i used are mainly moda, lecien, pam kitty morning, liberty....so lots of my favourites in there.....

 ..............the next thing i've been making is a BIG bunny......this is mabel and she was named by my grand daughter daisy, and inspired by her too ('nannie i think it's time you made some big bunnies')...

 ..............mabel is the biggest bunny i've made so far and i had to design her dress to fit her unique shape too .........i made her a smock dress, the kind i love myself......

 ...............here she is sitting on my work table along with the bow tie quilt (the pattern for this quilt is now in my etsy shop).............

 ..............and here is mabel with the gorgeous spring flowers that i rescued from the storms.....

 ..........we have had a lot of stormy weather this week, rain and wind and not at all good gardening weather.....so we went to the garden centre and enjoyed the flowers there undercover...and bought a few things to keep in the greenhouse until the winds die down......

 ............having said that, the spring bulbs are amazingly resilient..........

 .............this is a view of our garden and some of the bulbs which survived storm gareth this week....

..........thank you for your visits here and for your kind comments...it is always so lovely to hear from you...........wishing you a happy week with sunny days and pretty flowers......and of course plenty of crafty inspiration too............back soon xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx