I don't believe it!!

Hello

It is 5 months since I last blogged here.  Where does the time go? 

I had just retired when I last posted and it took me quite a while to get the hang of retirement.   I found it quite demoralising not having any reason for getting up in the morning.  When I was working I felt I would give anything to be able to laze about but found it not quite so wonderful.  Anyway I'm getting more used to it but do sometime have my moments!!

 

I thought I'd show you that I haven't been completely lazy and have been fairly productive over the last 5 months.

 

In September I was in C & H Fabrics and saw some beautiful Advent calendar fabric panels there.  I fell in love with them and though what a good idea to make them for my six grandchildren!  After all I had plenty of time, hadn't I?  Not til I got them home did I realise that a) I was going to Spain in the middle of September and b) that my son was coming from Australia to visit me for a few days at the beginning of October and it would be ideal for him to take three of the calendars back when he left.  Oh dear what had I done?

 

Anyway despite never having done anything like this before, I managed to get three ready for Chris to take back for my Australian grandchildren and the other three ready for the beginning of December for my British grandchildren; and here they are:

 

 

I am very pleased with them and I think the children are too.  They were not difficult but very time consuming in that  each of the little pockets had to be sewn on separately.   Then I had to put wadding and back them with plain material.  I had never done that before, but I was able to make quite a professional job of them.  I left it up to my children to decide what to fill the pockets with!

So that's the first set of projects I have completed.  I will be back later to show some of the cards etc I have also been making over the summer.

Thank you for reading.  x