i am having a pre christmas patchwork blitz. all year i have promised myself that i would NOT buy any more material and would, instead, use up the odds ans ends left over from past projects. all year i have ignored myself. not now though - the work room is a mass of multi-coloured, multi-patterned scraps. several ideas have come out of the confusion - but mostly i have been berating myself for allowing such a collection to build. i am a true magpie when it comes to fabric. if i go in to buy 'just one piece' i will see a whole host of 'new lines' that are just crying out to be bought in order to accomplish that dream quilt i saw in such and such a magazine.

discipline - that is what is needed. i have made myself promise that there will be no more retail therapy until at least a half of the scraps are utilised. to aid my promise, i will not be entering the fabric shop until next spring. that gives me a winter of long evenings in which to transform this chaos into bedspreads.

it is important that i get organised soon because the 'aga magnets' (4 slothful cats) are having a whole heap of fun sleeping under and on the fabric. why do they always choose the dark coloured ones............... cats hair everywhere.

having spent far too long on this computer this morning i am off to the market to check out if they have any chickens that need a home. my flock are a bit old and reluctant to lay anymore. need new blood........

maybe today will be the day that that good looking, kind,easy going, rich (and desperate)landowner will be just hanging around, waiting for a post menopausal chicken keeper to come along...................... No - i don't think so either......................