fine linen and purple

I havent blogged in ages. I am taking a City & Guilds online course in patchwork and quilting ( www.lindseytomsquilts.wordpress.com )  ...

Back in February we celebrated our fortieth wedding anniversary. On the actual date we were in Devon for our grandson, Gilby's birthday ...

I hope you all had a lovely Easter, our son, daughter in law and grandson Eugene came to stay Thursday to Saturday.  The sun shone and we sa...

I'm just posting a quick one as I don't have much to blog about at the moment other than this little chap...he is still being cared ...

As you will know if you read my blog regularly, that my eldest daughter and her husband are missionaries in South Africa.they have their own...

A couple of weeks ago I posted photos of the quilt that I made for my daughters friends who were adopting their second baby in South Africa....

I have just mailed this jumper to my daughter in SA together with a lovely vintage tea towel which I didnt photograph with my camera only...

Our eldest daughter arrives from South Africa, on Wednesday we go to Devon and will be joined by the rest of our kids for my Mothers fune...

My daughter who lives in South Africa asked me to make her some oven gloves...she loves to bake. I only had a little of the vintage fabri...

We have never much bothered with Valentines day because our wedding anniversary is just the week before. We take advantage of all those lov...

  So today we celebrate 37 years of marriage...we have had ups and downs but thank God its been mainly ups. Dont laugh at the photo...Oh ...

My daughter has a cobalt blue Kitchen Aid mixer and so for Christmas I made her an apron below..she loved it and as I had a little of t...

My daughter and her husband lived and worked in NY for 7 years before going to South Africa. So they are used to celebrating Thanksgivi...

Some time back I blogged about this quilt that my daughter and I made. I had inherited the hexies years ago and my daughter pieced them tog...