Wow!

After our trip to Ikea on Saturday afternoon, Elizabeth, Jenni, Barbara and I had lovely afternoon tea at the Guylian shop in Darling Harbour, tapas and pizza for dinner then went to see "Jesus Christ Superstar" - to say I LOVED this show is an understatement.  It more than lived up to my hopes - fantastic modern setting - and it had me riveted from the opening moment.  Tim Minchin - sensational, a star; Ben Foster (Jesus) singing "Gethsemane" was the highlight of the show for me, closely followed by Andrew O'Keefe as King Herod (so much fun); Mel C as Mary Magdeline was lovely.

This is the fifth version I've seen of the show, starting with Jim Sharman's original 1972 version with Trevor White, Jon English and Michelle Fawdon (pre Marcia Hines), and each time I've loved it.  I suppose because it's 1970's rock, it's music of my time.  I took Elizabeth and Michael to see the John Farnham version, which was fabulous.  Elizabeth remembers so much about that show - blew me away each time she mentioned a little detail here and there.

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At long last a couple of quilts are finished.

Ruby Chain - this quilt is based on "Island Chain" from "Scrap Basket Sensations"  by Kim Bracket.

"Ruby Chain" 57" x 68"

I love Bonnie and Camille's fabrics and am really happy with this quilt in their "Ruby" range along with the turquoise dot fabric for the background.

I sewed down the binding on Imagine Little Apples last night.  The pattern is "Imagine" from Carrie Nelson's "Schnibbles Times Two" book and I made is using Aneela Hooey's very sweet "Little Apples" fabrics, using the charm pack version of the pattern.

"Imagine Little Apples" 34-3/4" square

The backing

I should start assembling "Kiss Me" today but I'm going to quilt another cot quilt then I think the "to be quilted" stack may be down to two.

I love long weekends.

PS:  4 sleeps.

Jenni has been sewing again ...

Peta's hens party will be held on Easter Saturday - high tea with a 20's theme..  Jenni wanted to make herself a dress to wear so searched on Google and found instructions for an original design from the 1920's.  All it involved was squares and rectangles of fabrics attached to a slip/petticoat - brilliant and it looks fabulous on her.

Jenni's dress

Jenni offered to make a dress for Elizabeth and it's well under way.  No pattern - she just cut into the fabric and started pinning on the dressmaker's model.  There is no way I could do this - if I don't have a dressmaking pattern, it doesn't happen.

Elizabeth's dress

In between some more secret sewing, Hot Cross is on the frame ready to quilt

and Pyjama Babies has been pin basted.  I used the "Little Apples" white fabric with tortoises, snails and apples for the backing.

A little while ago I cut out a Schnibble design, "Imagine", from the Schnibbles Two book, using a Little Apples charm pack with two squares of red check added to make up the number of squares required - no blocks are sewn together yet.  This is such a cute fabric range.

A couple of weeks ago Nicole from Sister's Choice Quilts, wrote a blog post about how much trouble some shops go to when sending out a parcel of fabric and what a difference it makes to how, as a shopper, you feel about the shop and what you've purchased.  I received this parcel last week - fabric I ordered wrapped in white polka dot cellophane with a free fat quarter on top and all tied in hot pink and black polka dot ribbon - delightful!

I have no affiliation with the shop - was just tickled pink with the parcel.