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RSC – the last of the pink scraps…

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 The last few weeks have been quite busy, with not a lot of time for sewing. I did manage to get some more done with the bag of pink scraps though. 

I took all the strips and cut them to 2.5 “, then joined them up in a jelly roll race style. There was enough there to do the centre of another square quilt top:


Then I cut up the smaller strips made these cute little blocks, they are the same as you get with a disappearing nine patch:


… and now all that is left from that original big shopping bag of scraps is one large ziplock bagful…

My plan for the week ahead is to get the rest of the Sweet Dreams blocks finished, start working on Summer in the Country and decide on one of my many UFO’s to work on. 

I’ve been walking 10,000 steps every day and enjoying the Autumn colours on my morning walks.

“It was a beautiful, bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.”

– Diana Gabaldon

Linking up with SoScrappy and OhScrap.

I’m Retired!

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I’ve been sitting here watching the last few minutes of the countdown go down to zero and now its official – I’m retired! 

It’s nine months earlier than planned when I started this blog in December of 2017 with a goal of retiring in five years – ‘and so it begins’. 

This last week didn’t really go as planned. DH had a bike accident and ended up having surgery – he’s doing OK, just has a lot of sitting about ahead of him for the next few weeks while he recovers. So I ended up only working three days this week.

I had wonderful farewell with a few tears, lots of laughs and sharing of memories. I’ve been given a VERY generous Spotlight gift voucher to spend on fabric – they know me well lol!

We’re having a celebration dinner tonight – theres a roast dinner in the oven – and I’m pretty confident of a good nights sleep ahead. 

And so a new chapter begins in the morning.  I’m planning on spending the day sewing. I have fabric parcels to open, Sweet Dreams to get caught up on and so much I want to do!

I also just want to send a special shout out to Simple Savers friends who’ve been such an encouragement over many years and played a big part in me achieving my goal xxx

 ” A wise woman once said ‘I’m Outta Here!’ and she lived happily ever after.”


Sweet Dreams – Five days to go!

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 Well this is the last Monday morning I will be getting ready for work. I have just five days to work until that counter ticks over to zero and then I’m retired!

 I’ve hardly sewn since I last posted, just busy with finalising work projects and too tired to do much else when I get home. But I did finish one more Sweet Dreams block – #8 and have a few more cut out ready to go.

I’m looking forward to next week when I can just rest, relax and start decompressing. I have ordered more comic book boards and I’ve also put in an order for some gorgeous fat quarter bundles that were on sale – a retirement present to myself! 

At work I’ll be packing up the last of my office furnishings and bringing it home each day and saying my goodbyes. My farewell will be via a Teams meeting and then its just handing in my keys on Friday.  I’m just going to focus on enjoying my last week and catching up with old work colleagues – the final countdown is here!

“What do you call a person who is happy on Mondays? Retired!”