Lynette Anderson Designs

Willowhouse Needlecase...

This is my newest release pattern, its called Willowhouse Needlecase and inside there are some nice pockets and a special place to keep your needles.

I have also included instructions to make this sweet tapemeasure cover 

and this scissor holder. I am really happy with this pattern, hope you like it too.

The patterns should be arriving in your local quilt store anyday, if not be sure to ask for it by name so they can order it in for you.

For a chance to win one of these patterns, tell me the name of your favourite local quilt store giving their postal and email address and one lucky person will win a copy of Willowhouse Needlecase. 

happy stitching

My tapemeasure collection...

Thought I should show you this cute elephant tapemeasure I bought when I was in the US earlier this year, isnt she gorgeous. No idea how old she is, she is made of plastic and with the wording Lucky Elephant tape on the back, maybe she came out of a cracker?? 

I have a few other tapemeasures that I will show you but first I wonder if anyone knows anything about this one?

Kittens on my mind...

Remember I was lucky enough to go to sample spree when we went to Spring market in the US back in May? For those of you who haven't heard of sample spree, let me explain, its a wonderful 3 hour event at the trade show where store owners and designers have the chance to buy new release products and that includes fabrics. These yummy fabrics just had to come home with me, they are from Moda, its called Harvest Home by Blackbird designs and I am lucky enough to have a fat quarter of every one in the range! I also have some fabulous hand dyed wool in my collection, it seems to be something I have to buy everytime I see some, bet you know that feeling!

 

Do you see the little kitty head peeking out on my drawing..... well thats all I can show you as its part of the design for the Stitchers' Angel accessory, I bet you can imagine where the inspiration came from! Talking of the Stitchers Angel, what a thrill, so many of you have signed up to do the swap...thats so exciting, I cant wait to see what you all make. I love the land of blog, we all get to see and enjoy far more than we do from just going to our local quilt shop or group.

Now for an update on unwanted kitten, well as you can see from this photo, Hugo now thinks he is a cat and should be allowed to eat with them! As you can see I am a bit naughty and feed the cats on my kitchen bench, this was originally started so that Hugo did not scoff their food but as you can see if he stands on tiptoes he can reach! Dont think they let him have any this time!

Ok, well I am off to do some stitching now and then just before lunch I am having my teeth cleaned at the Periodontists, I love it when my teeth have been cleaned professionally, no plaque, no staining from tea etc just shiny bright clean teeth and in any case I dont want to get gum disease do I? 

Did you know that you dont need a referral (in Australia) to go and see a Periodontist, so if you are worried about bad breath, wobbly teeth or think you have receeding gums, just make a call and you may be making a call that will save your teeth. Oh, did I forget to mention my husband is the Periodontist in my town, so after he has cleaned my teeth I get to have lunch with him...yipee! Wonder where we will go and what we will have to eat...mmmm. 

bye for now

Its still with us...

I have forgotten to tell you we have had Beau staying with us, he is my Mum and Dads labrador, he has been staying with us for the last three weeks as Mum and Dad have gone to the Uk visiting friends and family. As you can see he is a very gentle dog and took the job of garden supervisor very seriously! Everytime the unwanted kitten tried to get onto the garden beds he kept pushing it with his nose back onto the grass!

As you can imagine mother Hugo is never far away!

Fatcat is trying to be friendly.... but he wants to know if it means he will get less food now there is an extra mouth to feed? 

Freckle is not keen at all and has taken to hiding in the pantry, has anyone got any ideas how to help her accept the unwanted kitten? Also, I am hoping that while she is in the pantry with my cookery books perhaps she could think of something for me to cook for dinner???

I can honestly say that I have not got much work done in the last couple of days...I have played with the animals alot though! How cute is this picture, when I did try and get something traced this morning ready for stitching tonight this is what I found when I came back from making a cup of tea! I felt really mean when I moved it but, there was tracing to do!

Since I cant show you what I am working on at the moment as its the sewing accessory for the Stitchers Angel ....*sssshhhh its a secret what I am making (thats a note to unwanted kitten whom I have a feeling cannot keep secrets!).

I can show you these two blocks though, I have been busy trying to finish these blue version blocks from 'Your Home or Mine', I started them ages ago and .......yup, still not finished, which is silly as they are looking really good in blue. I am using some civil war reproduction fabrics that I bought from The Quilted Crow Girls when I visited their shop in April.

I hope that you have all had a good day, thanks for all the wonderful messages about the unwanted kitten, I think I may have to have a name the kitten competition! I will tell you more about that soon.

Found....

yesterday morning I answered the door bell to some passers by who had rescued a kitten form the tree at the end of our road.... what can I say I am not strong willed when it comes to animals, so I brought the very hungry meaowing ginger ball of fluff indoors.

As you can see Hugo and I have made some 'found' letters and have delivered them to everyone in the neighbourhood and we left a big notice at the corner store, fingerscrossed we find the owner as I am not too sure what Fatcat and Freckle will think?

Hugo took to it straight away which is lucky as the kitten thinks Hugo is its Mum! Perhaps it hasn't noticed Hugo is a boy! After a good clean up from Hugo, it was looking very cute....

I think Hugo is asking if we can keep it?

Asleep at last.....

This is how I found them this morning...ahhhh how sweet I hear you say...thats would be just before I get cross because they are on the sofa where they are not allowed! They do look cute together don't they, it must be something to do with the fact that they match each other in colouring.  I am not sure which of them is purring the most! 

Hopefully, today someone will call me, if not we will have to have a think about whether we want another cat! 

Happy Sunday

PS. I know that lots of you have already signed up for this swap, there is still time if you havent signed up and thanks to everyone for all the encouragement but I am still deciding!

I am a Stitchers' Angel designer...

 

Gosh, the blogging world is a world full of fun, combine it with stitching and you are in heaven, which must make us all stitching angels! There is going to be alot of fun in the month of August, pop over the Helen to see what all the fun is about, I do hope that you will join in. I am still trying to decide if as well as having the fun of designing a project for you, I will also have the fun of joining in the swap! Hmmm, shall I be tempted or not??

Looking forward to seeing who signs up for the Stitchers' Angel swap, of course if you dont do the swap the free patterns will still be available for you to download

On another note there are a few more elephants blocks to view, dont be shy, go and visit these blogs,  here, here and here and leave them a message to brighten their day. 

bye for now

Winner of the 'Woof' pattern....

These quilts have just come back from Europe where my European distibutor had them for various trade shows and I thought I would share this picture of 'Freckle' keeping the quilts warm! Oh, maybe the quilts are keeping her warm!  She is called Freckle as she has a little freckle inside her mouth, she is the strangest cat, if you sneeze she meows as if to say 'bless you', we are very naughty as we tease her by pretend sneezing and everytime she meows a 'bless you' to us...very sweet, does your cat do anything strange?

This is a picture of a quilt that has been made from my Cows and Daises pattern by Hege for a shop in Tønsberg, Norway called Line's Hobby that stocks my patterns. I am not sure if they have a website for you to look at but when i find out I will let you know. I really like the colours Hege has used, she tells me that the fence is a type of string that has been zig zagged to the background, and instead of making daisies as the pattern suggests she has made yoyo's which look great, dont you think.

Congratulations to Julia from Little Girl Quilts, she has won the 'Woof' pattern, so Julia please send me your postal address so I can get in in the post to you. Oh, I just popped over to visit her blog and saw that she has my Ark picture loaded into her sidebar, looks great, if you havent done yours yet, please do, its a wonderful way of linking like minded people around the world. The picture for you to put in your sidebar is a couple of posts ago.

There are a few speedy stitchers out there who have already got their elephants stitched and loaded onto their blogs, take a peek, here and here. I am sure there are more of you, so let me know when you have them loaded onto your blog and I will list you here.

Have a great day sewing today wherever you are in the world

Probably my favourite pair...

As a child I begged my parents to let me have a baby elephant as a pet, just a small one I used to say.... of course I never got one! Probably if we had lived in Africa I could have had one but the South of England, it probably was too much to hope for! Dont you just love the innocence of childhood, I think I felt the elephant would stay small if I just wished hard enough!

The Noah's Ark free BOM pattern for this month is now ready for you to download, for those of you who have not found the patterns new location just look underneath my photo on the top left, its in the "other pages' section.

Many of you have been wonderful and have added the little painting of the Ark that I did to your sidebars with a link back to me, well done and thank you. Also thanks to you I have had a quite a few new to my blog visitors, yipee the more the merrier.....In my dreams we will have a Noah's Ark exhibition somewhere in the world and there will be walls and walls of Noah's Arks done is so many different colours it will be amazing!

PS. If you havent put the ark picture in your sidebar yet and want to, the picture is in the post below this!

Coming soon...

I know you are all holding your breath waiting for.......the next block. Well the next pair of animals are making their way rather slowly to this blog. Keep looking they are not too far away!

In the meantime, how about a challenge?

I have done this very cute painting of the ark and was wondering if any or all of you who are participating in my Noah's Ark free BOM would like to add it to your sidebar with a link back to me?? Now please do not ask me how to do this picture/link thing as I have no idea but I have seen a few people with such things in their side bars so there must be quite a few of you who know how??? I hope!

Also, I know a few people have already visited the 'other pages' section just below my picture top left, this is now where the Noah's Ark information and files are to be found. I think its better than the photo album but what do you think? If you just leave your blog address as a link in the comments section everyone will be able to come and visit you and see your Noah's Ark.

talk soon

Sunday climb...

Yesterday afternoon we decided it was 'the day' to climb Mt Coolum, we have been promising ourselves that we would, so at 3.30pm we headed off, it was a nice temperature and not too windy! The sign at the bottom of the climb said it was a two hour round trip, that we should stay on the path and for experienced climbers only....ekk, it gets dark fairly early at the moment and we had been told (by young fit people) that its about 20 mins to climb up! Neither of us are experienced climbers....anyhow we thought we would make a start and accept that if it was too hard we would turn around. The first part was through some trees and had wonderful steps that had been cut into the earth, it was quite a steep climb and I was out of breath fairly quickly but determined to keep up with Vince! 

We arrived at this part!! Surely this isnt the path?? Yep it was!

We saw these very pretty flowers... I stopped to admire them whilst secretly trying to get my breath back!

We finally got to the top and it was about a 20 min climb, these crows were having fun in the tree at the top!

Can you spot the Peregrine Falcon the tower?

The view was wonderful, its so interesting to see the layout of where you live from a birds eye view.

Dont step backwards!

I have to say that going down required far more concentration than going up but not as much breath!

What did you get up to this weekend, something fun I hope?

PS. Thanks for all the wonderful postings about favourite keyrings if you havent done so there is still time for you to leave me a message. One lucky person will receive my new 'Woof' pattern.