Lynette Anderson Designs

Eggs For Breakfast...

Whilst looking through some old papers today I found a wonderful letter from one of my customers. She was busy making my quilt Eggs for Breakfast

and remembered that her grandfather used to say X for breakfast which is from an old Cockney alphabet.
A for ‘orses (hay for horses)
B for mutton (beef or mutton)
C for yourself (see for yourself)
D for ential (differential)
E for Adam (Eve or Adam)
F for scent (effervescent)
G for gotton (forgotten)
H for himself (each for himself)
I for E (ivory)
J for orange (jaffa orange)
K’s for doctor (case for doctor)
L for leather (hell for leather)
M for sis (emphasis)
N for lope (envelope)
O for the garden wall (over the garden wall)
P’s for dinner (peas for dinner)
Q for billiards (cue for billiards)
R for mo (half a mo)
S for you (its for you)
T for biting (teeth for biting)
U for me (you for me)
V for la France (viva la France)
W for the winnings (double you for the winnings)
X for breakfast (eggs for breakfast)
Y for husband (wife or husband)
Z for wind (zephyr wind)

I see in the picture of the quilt there is one of my beloved hens running in front of the quilt, I cant remember what type of hen she was, although I do remember that her eggs were wonderful. Do any of you know what type of hen she was?

bye for now

Speedy Granny Loz...

The first cows and rainbow have arrived in blogland, take a peek here.
I notice now that I have not put the little x x's on the cow patches so if you want to do them you will have to free hand draw them in...have fun and dont forget to post about your blocks and then let me know so I can have a peek.
love to you all,

Month 3, Rainbow and Cows

Here they are the cutest pair of cows you have ever seen, they are just waiting to be stitched and added to your Noahs Ark block collection. If you are just joining us to stitch your Noahs Ark just scroll down to the bottom left hand column and there you will find the photo album with the downloadable files or if you are a repeat offended just follow this link.

Please let me know when you have posted your block to your blog so I can take a peek and remember to let everyone know about this free stitchery, the more Ark stitchers out there the more fun we will have.
Happy stitching,

Lock me up....please..

Seriously I have so much stuff to get ready before I go away in......13 days... I probably do need locking up. I seem to be using avoidance tactics to get out of doing what needs to be done, like today when I went out with mum for the afternoon but was in no rush to come home....hmmm well we were trying to find me some clothes.... I am a hopeless clothes shopper as I really love my jeans and a t-shirt. Its Ok though as we found a great new pair of jeans and some wonderful t-shirt type tops that are just a bit more interesting than a t-shirt. Yes, I am excited and very nervous, its been three years since I took my patterns and books to the USA and .....well, what if they hate me....

I guess you would all like me finish off the instructions for the May Noahs Ark Free pattern??? Keep your eyes posted, its not too far away... now I am going back to look at my suitcase and try to decide what I actaully need rather than what I have already got in it!

I took this photo of Vince the other afternoon when he got back from his wednesday morning ride. I was so pleased with the picture that I have had it printed onto a huge canvas for him to hang in the office, it looks really good. Cute knees dont you think!

Yes, I know I can hear you.....I am off to my workshop to finish the '_ _ _ _ _' block, there you almost made me say what the block for May was....naughty!
See you soon

Pansy garden and old quilt...

Its a beautiful day here today as long as you can find a place in the sun thats out of the wind and as I look out of my window I remember that I have not shown you my pretty pot of pansys. I am not really much of a gardener preferring to stitch instead but I do love splashes of colour in pots around my garden.

Today I think its also time to show you another of my old quilts, this one I have very little information about it is quite large 93" square, about 1840's so the sale tag said! Made from a wonderful variety of Civil War fabrics in a simple nine patch. The fabrics on the front are in quite good condition but sadly the fabric on the back which is a stripe is rotting.

Not long until we take my patterns and books to Spring market in the USA and I am now excited and nervous, my freight will leave this week and then I can plan what clothing I need as I think it will be much colder there than here!

I am off to meet my Vince for lunch,

New patterns..

My new patterns are hot off the press so why not treat yourself and get stitching, find a special chair and make a cushion to celebrate each season.
Spring,

Summer,

Autumn,

and Winter,

Each pattern comes with ready to iron-on transfer, instructions to make a cushion or collect all four seasons and you can make this gorgeous mini-wallquilt

The patterns are available for immediate delivery right now from Phil at Patchwork Interactive or Penny at The Patchwork Angel.

I hope you like them?

Out for lunch..

With all the great places to eat here on the Sunshine Coast its often hard to decide exactly where you would like to go, yesterday we all went to the Japanese resturant for lunch. I picked up Ma and Pa and Vince met us there.

We had the lunchbox special,

The container that lunch arrived in was so cute, made perhaps from bamboo it had lots of divided sections in which there were small amounts of tempting delicacies, each in its own gorgeous bowl. Vegetables, a huge prawn and a melt in your mouth piece of fish done in tempura, sizzled beef in a wonderful sauce, two types of raw fish (not my favourite), aubergine or eggplant as it is called here which had been marinated in the most wonderful sweet sticky sauce...yummy... a bowl of rice and a cup of delicious aromatic green tea that was served in the sweetest cups.

My Dad could not wait to get started!

Vince was also keen to practice his chop stick skills!

The four of us decided we should get together for lunch maybe once a month, the rules being that we have to try somewhere different each time and that it should be within walking distance of where Vince works...hmm...roll on next month!
Where or what is your favourite place to eat?

Off to the sewing room for me, yipee..

Autumn Swap..

One of the participants of the Autumn Gathering and I decided a few months ago that we would do an Autumn swap with each other. The rules of our Autumn swap were based upon the valentine swap that Lucy Locket hosted earlier this year, we had to handmake something with an Autumn theme (rather than the valentine theme) that took about 3 hours to make, add something from our stash to the value of about $6 and of course give something sweet.

The fun begins as Jo and I begin to open our packages..

Such fun, fabric, rick rack, a tiny pot of buttons, lovely lavender soap and the most beautiful beaded keyring..

Can you see there is the neatest blanket stitch and feather stitch down the seams.

Take a peek inside, an address book, pen, postcards and stamps, everything a girl could need who is off to the USA in three weeks time...

Then there was this brilliant 'thread catcher' which makes me wonder if my swap partner has seen my messy workshop... maybe I think she has guessed I am messy when working. Anyhow this little fabric pot for popping your threads into whilst working came from a tutorial on The Stitching Room's blog, maybe you can make yourself one too.

This is what I made for Jo, its an acorn needlecase from a pattern from Crabapple Hill. The patterns from this designer are all gorgeous and are widely available, ask for them at your local quilt shop.

Hope you are having fun?

Tasmanian visit..

I had the most wonderful day on Saturday at The Quilted Crow's Autumn Gathering where along with Kerry Gillespie from My Favourite Things I was one of their guest tutors. The hall where the event is held had been decorated beautifully by Deirdre and Leonie. Trails of wonderful berry clad vines twined their way amongst bags filled with goodies that had been lovingly decorated with Autumn leaves. Does anyone know what these berries are??

I demonstrated puncheedle,

traditional applique,

I signed lots of books and patterns,

and talked and talked...

so many lovely ladies from all across Australia,

The food was divine, these were my favourite.. chocolate of course,

I stayed at Mrs Curries very cozy Bed and Breakfast..

I also had a wonderful Autumn swap partner and tomorrow I will show you what we swapped

Workshop muddle..

I have finally moved my workshop from the room which was intended for the office into one of the bedrooms, yipee, a bigger room, great cupboard space but terrible lighting.... the electrician is coming next week to give me some more power points and a couple of extra lights in the ceiling.

Somewhere under this muddle is my work table. As you can see Fatcat does not mind the mess at all, he is happy to sit on anything!

I am now all packed and ready for the Autumn Gathering in Tasmania, my flight is early tomorrow morning, so I am off for an early night.
See you Sunday with some pictures form the gathering,