Ha Birthda to me!

Hooray - it's my birthday!!

To be honest, the older I get, the more low key these things seems to get - the problem with having a birthday in August is that people are away, so getting together is nearly impossible. Mind you, on the other hand, the celebrations end up going on for several weeks, so it isn't that bad......

My sister and her children came to visit yesterday, and a friend came over with her family as well and we had a barbecue in the garden, expertly cooked by Jim - which is really his way of getting away from socialising with everyone....

Steff brought a cake from the local shop, and had brought some candles- but they had got broken on the journey, hence the rather obscure message of "Ha Birthda".

And what did I get done in quilting terms on Saturday? Not much - I put the borders on my jellyroll quilt, and made about a zillion more nine-patches (I think I may have too many now), and I met up with my friends Jacqui and Carol, who had made a quilt for the owner of the shop to celebrate 20 years of the shop being in business:



I also picked up some fabric for my SBS quilt, which I've started, but I'm not too sure that I have the right combination of colours. They go together, but they don't 'sing' - I think I need to rethink the background colour - I've gone too pale and I think I need a background with some more warmth in it. I'll try to post some pictures tomorrow of what I mean.