Is summer here?

Finally the weather seems to be getting better - at last it's warm enough to think that maybe, just maybe the summer is here after all. Mind you, it's always warm enough for ice-cream.....

Day four of the school holidays - and still no quilting done. But I've done some more needlepoint, and have spent a lot of time clearing out the sewing room.

"Sewing room" is a very grandiose term for a small bedroom that I've appropriated for my own use. When we moved in, I was sure that it would be more than big enough, but in less than six months it's become obvious that there just isn't space in there for everything - there are piles of fabric everywhere, as well as the WIPs and UFOs galore.

So I've filled up a number of storage boxes - the CD ones are execllent for fat quarters - and tried to organise it all. The stack of magazines is enormous, and will probably topple over at some point - I need to go through them and sort out what's to be kept, and what can be passed on to someone else.

I have be very hardhearted now, and force myelf to keep it tidy (tidier?) and get some projects finished, instead of starting another one.

I took a small step (well, a miniscule step) yesterday when I was passing a quilt shop in Ollerton, Heath's Country Store

and managed to not go in.....which was pretty hard as I could do with some more fabric to finish off a WIP - but I know I'll be passing again in about six weeks time...

The plan for today is to go and buy a barbecue, ready for my sister's visit next weekend, and to then finish 'sorting' the sewing room, without getting too distracted by what I unearth along the way.

Where has the weather gone?

Well, it's Saturday again - and no sign at all of summer. There have been one or two brief spells of sunshine - and then the rain again. Certainly little opportunity to sample one of these:

Jim is writing a 2000 word essay today on Scottish identity in the nineteenth century, so the safest place to be is probably anywhere else but under the same roof - which seems as good a reason as any to go to the John Lewis sale!!!

Hooray - at last a legitimate reason to go. I can honestly say that we don't need anything, but I am dutifully ringing siblings to see if they have any requirements (just to legitimise the expedition further). And of course, if there were to be anything in the fabric line reduced......