August already!

It's August already! I can't believe it. So I'm joining up with Lily's quilts fresh sewing day and small blog meet up. I could do with a few more friends out in sewing land and I love looking at all the amazing things you all make.

July seems to have flown over and I'm not totally certain that I got much done. I suspect that this is down to the new job and me getting used to the whole 9-5 thing after working odd shifts in my last job. I even seemed to have missed the nice weather we've had in the UK because by the time I get out of work and home our garden is just at the wrong angle for sun.

The 1 thing I've made myself - a pincushion of summersville fabric.

An awful photo that gives an idea of what the wedding quilt I'm working on looks like. The big gap is for pictures I'm waiting for. There is a lot of white fabric sashing too that isn't on this photo.

But onto this month and I'm away for a couple of weekends so I thought I'd best get started on something I can do when I'm away. I've decided to make a hexagon charm quilt and I've cut out 170 1" hexagons and bought some mini charm packs to get me started.

I also happened upon the perfect box in our local supermarket to keep everything all organised and neat.

Here it is all opened up. The top holds my finished hexagons and the bottom 2 compartments are ideal sized to hold my fabric, pins, hexagons, scissors and thread.

...and here is a better look at the fabric that's in there. I have some noteworthy and some random ones I found on eBay. Ideally I'd have every hexagon in different fabric but I don't think I'll manage that easily so I'm ticking to mini charm packs at the minute.

I've also been naughty and bought some fabric this month. I fully blame my sister for pointing out this fabric and it's amazing autumn looks in the shop.

I couldn't resist buying the full set of these enchanted forest fabrics when I spotted them. They are just so pretty and the small animals on them are adorable.

And these were some random ones I bought at the same time. Well, you can't have too many random fabrics right?

Just a better picture of the texture of the blue fabric.

And that leads me onto the main quilt in my life at the minute. The giant green quilt. It wasn't made by me - it was made by a friend but I'm quilting this beast for her. It's just a little over king size! Luckily she wants straight line quilting in the ditch because I have no idea how I'd do anything else with it.

At the minute I have it basted (after re-arranging all the furniture in my living room) and have managed to get the lines done from top to bottom. It needs to be done by the end of this week before I go away because the wedding it is for is next week and she needs to bind it. Nothing like a tight deadline!

Once this quilt is done I can focus my attention back onto the quilt I making for my friend wedding. I best get a move on with that as it's in October and another 2 friends have just got engaged this week! I hope they don't all want quilts.

I hope this month doesn't fly over like last month and I get to enjoy it a bit more. I hope you had a more relaxing July than I did.