Weekly recap

It has been an exciting week...

1) I have my first blog sponsor for January. YAY!!!! I had a brilliant idea for a post, then thought, why should I have all the fun? I know a HEAP of you are going to want to do the same sort of blog post... Then I thought, why not make it a competition? I flicked an email off and an extremely generous sponsor said they would donate a FABULOUS prize, but I'm not letting the cat out of the bag until Boxing Day. Trust me, you are going to want in on this one. (And you need a bit of time to think about your entry, so start preparing your excuses now for Boxing Day. Eg "Mummy/Daddy has a hangover headache and needs to go and lie down with the laptop for a few hours"). Sunny from Love Affair with My Brother threatened to put in 20 entries, so I've had to limit her to one with the bribe that she gets to be one of the 5 judges but is not allowed to vote for herself. Boxing Day - put it in your diary!

2) Same day, I walked into a flashy furniture store near work which houses one of the two cafe's in the area. I was wearing my Japanese Koi skirt, which I still love. A sales assistant pounced on me and asked if I had sewn and designed it myself (yes and yes) and we started talking. It ended up with me giving her a spare craft shop voucher I had and her asking me to bring some of my work in for the shop to see if they might like to sell it. :)

3) I got an email from Ireland asking if I wanted to enter the international quilt show being held in Galway next year. I'm sure they sent every quilting blogger they could find an email, but I felt special. Ireland anyone?

4) Finally, I said I wouldn't go to Spotlight (big Aussie craft store) and buy things I didn't need just to use the 'spend $100 get $40 off voucher, but I folded and bought a bias maker. (Get it, folded?! hahaha! Sorry....) What swung me was the quilt binding attachment - you can feed your 2.5" strip through and it gets all folded and ironed at the same time for you. The thought of doing the binding for my King Size Jewel Box quilt swung me. So I have a new toy to play with. 12 feet of bias in under a minute - I'm in. What they don't mention is the 12 minutes you spend winding your bias onto the spool and then trying to poke the fabric through the bias maker. I'm sure I'll get faster.

The jury is still out on whether I finish the Black Giant by Friday for my monthly TGIFF host... There are 2 triangles left to FMQ and the twin of the machine from hell (mine is still in Sydney or somewhere) is about as reliable. It was just going nicely when I ran out of thread. Grr. And then there is the binding...

Will I get there? What do you think??? How do you rate the Laura Laziness against the Laura Determination factors? Will this ten year old monster FINALLY get finished?

To be continued...