What a good weekend.

I must have been feeling super creative this weekend, when I got home on Friday evening Georgie and I were looking through a load of Country Living magazines, cutting out what we felt we would like to keep. whist doing this I had a sudden urge to make a coffee cake, so, I just did, and it was so quick, it did make me wonder why I didn't do spontaneous things more often!!

Saturday I lite some yankee candle wax tarts that I had already been using over christmas, and used the wax to make some small smelly candles.



I then went on to do a job I had been wanting to do for ages.  Our sofa is a very old sofa that my brother gave me about 5 years ago.  The feather cushions had become so flat, I wanted to make them smaller but firmer, so I made new ticking bags for them, and then made new covers from some fabric I bought about 10 years ago to cover the old sofa.....hoarder me? don't know what you mean!  anyway the end result was quite good!

Finally I thought I would treat myself to do something that I wanted to do.  Now I can sew but have never made a quilt, even though I love them, really because I want instant gratification, and I couldn't see a way to have that with a quilt.  however I saw a block of the month class which is free on craftsy, so I thought I would give it a go.  The first one is call a slashed asterix, and here is my first attempt, now there are faults and if you are a quilter it may be awful, but to me I felt quite proud of how it turned out.