Older Woman Cooking

Strange blog title, you think? Yup. Why did I come up with it? Because I was having a browse through my stats this morning at some unearthly hour that my body decided to wake up and I had a look at what search engine words led people to my blog.

Older (!!) Woman Cooking did. Huh!? I beg to differ. I am not an 'older woman' and would like to know what search engine directed them to me on that wording. Defamation I think! (You have no idea how much effort it took for me to keep that civilised!)

How about this one - 'bamboo wife tutorial', or 'sewing what are those insects i find in my fabric?', or 'canadian "oh" sound'. Have you ever looked at what people are typing in their searches that land them on your blog? Do you ever wonder what they think when they click on your blog? If they actually bother to read anything? Do they stay a while or close it so fast my head would spin if I knew? I find it all rather fascinating in a weird kind of way.

Most likely I am the only one who ponders these things.

Onwards - more sewing today. Fully intended to work on the  mug Rug Swap items I must make. We'll put that down as a fail shall we! Didn't even contemplate them. Not a moment of pondering or anything. I hang my head in shame. Well, I would if I hadn't managed to accomplish the following.

First off I made something else to send to Kat. She doesn't know - obviously she will when she reads this - that I was going to do this but since I was sending a parcel to her anyway it seemed silly to not include another item. Kat has decided to help out a local charity in Perth, Australia. Since I am not there to support her on an ongoing basis I thought a donation to the cause might be appreciated.

Kat is going to make small quilts for the neo-natal units in the Perth Hospitals. She explains it all here. I have only made a quilt top to send and then Kat will have to finish it but it will be easier (and less expensive) to post just the top. This is what I made this morning.

Please ignore the toe that has successfully snuck into the photo!

After this little project I moved on to doing the September Brit Bee Blocks. My blocks! I thought it might be polite to show my bee buddies that if I was asking them to sew curves (how horrible am I?) then I should do some too. So I did. And it really wasn't that bad. Honest! Not particularly scary. Not scary the way paper piecing and zippers are!

Curve ball.

Funny how I wasn't sure if I would like my blocks because I had never done anything like this before.
And then I went ahead and asked eleven other people to make some too.

But now that I have made two...

... I am more than liking them!

Can you tell that I am chuffed to bits with these?!

Now I have to turn my  mind to more mundane matters like feeding the children. Doing dishes. Putting away laundry. Quite frankly, I would rather be sewing, but needs must.

Susan