This weekends makings and ramblings.....

 Saturday Al and I went to the sewing machine shop in High Wycombe, I was so pleased that i waited to go there and did not just buy a machine without seeing it.  I had been dallying between getting a new Toyota and a Janome, i had spent time at all different places looking at machines and it was those two that I really liked the look of.  In the end thanks to a lovely demonstration by the lady in the shop i have a brand spanking new Janome Sewist 525S.  It is lovely!

I got to work with it straight away and pieced together the quilt top I am making for my friend at work.  She is pregnant at the moment and due in May, I am making a play quilt for her, the backing is a light blue with cute little sheep and all different coloured numbers.  I will bind it in either pink or blue depending on what she has.  It is a simple disappearing nine patch sewn together randomly, I didn't want it to look too uniform as I wanted it to be fun.

I have finally decided what to do with my jelly roll.  I have split into into lights and darks and I am making a log cabin quilt all for myself!  It is very strange making something for me, usually I make things for everyone else and I love doing that, so to make something just for me is fun!  The jelly roll is really bright and not the sort of colours I would usually go for, but I decided to step outside my comfort zone and buy the bright and modern one.  I am really pleased with the way this block has come together, it is a very simple but effective one and I am looking forward to how they will fit together.

I was really pleased yesterday, I went to my Weight Watchers meeting yesterday and I have lost 3lb, after writing of December as a bad job, I am now only 2lb away from what I weighed at the end of November.  I am determined to stick to it and get myself to a size 14 by Stacey's wedding in August.  Such a busy year ahead!

It is now only 4 weeks until we go away for half term, we have rented a house for a week in Trim in Ireland.  Al visited Ireland once years ago with his brother but K and I have never been and we are really looking forward to it.  We will be able to walk and visit churches and take pictures to our hearts content.