Including a little snippet of front cover fame...
and a double spread inside! Wow! 
This book looks and feels great. I can't wait to sit down with a cuppa and enjoy it at leisure. You can get your copy here (the best deal for Aussies, according to booko.com.au).
Daniel believes he is entitled to my full attention in the afternoons. This afternoon I tricked him. Sitting next to the fabric I was cutting, he believed he had my full attention andgurgled away, or perfected his raspberries when there was no response forthcoming. 
And as we work, we listen to the rain coming down outside. We can hear it rather well today as the other three kids are away being entertained by their grandmothers!
Although later than promised, here are some pictures of what I've been working on. With the latest quilt virtually finished, it's time to start thinking about new quilt designs. (I do still have a major quilt cut out and ready for piecing, but like to work ahead of myself with new designs. This gives me the opportunity to stew over the designs for a bit while I sew the next quilt).
I am still very busy with the concept of children discovering the world around them, and capturing that in my work. However, having noted with the latest quilt that the pieces where a bit too small and fiddly for my liking, I am faced with the problem of portraying people at a small scale. Although I like producing large quilts, I would also like to work on some smaller ones, and am currently limited by the smaller pieces of the faces.
That means its time for some playing and experimenting with different ideas. The other day I tried interpreting a range of my sketches into stitch. These stitcheries were done by drawing my image onto water-soluble fabric, which was then placed onto the fabric background and stitched free-motion on my machine. Unfortunately the dye ran out of the red and yellow fabric.
It's always promising when the dinner table looks like this! Maybe tomorrow I will show the fruits of this mess...
We are planning to stay with my parents for the weekend. With our older kids this always prompted comments at the dinner table like "we better brush up on your table manners now, otherwise what will Grandma say?" Now things have degenerated to the point that we say "just as well we are going to Grandma and Grandad's house, so that they can sort you out" :)
Well, we have been busy around here this week (promise!) - there just hasn't been much to show for it at the end of the day. There were all kinds of textiley projects (sort of) such as:
There were also many projects not remotely textiley such as:
I hope you are enjoying your Easter celebrations!
