This is my Grandma, she's 88. I had to share this photo with the world as its such a good one of her. She's not that brill anymore but until last month kept an imaculately clean bungalow including garden.

Now that I have put the great work on line I can start and show you some of the more current stuff but as we're going out for a meal to celebrate the girls birthday's in half an hour and I haven't begun to get ready yet, it will have to wait. Keep your fingers crossed, or not as your sense of humour may be, that I don't continue when I get home as lots of alcohol will have been involved so I can't guarantee the quality of the blogging tee hee x Bye for now x

The unfinished article in full

I LOVE CHRISTMAS! Its not finished but the gist of it is done. In one of my many books there is a picture of a quilt which has been worked on by 5 generations of the same family so perhaps when I'm a great great grandma this one will be finished!

November is easy! The picture is my little man, my first born arrived on 1st November 1987. Perhaps its not such a good idea to point out to him the fashion sense!

I struggled a bit to fit October to my life but as I do have a few funny stories in my cupboard I thought I'd link it to a wicked sense of humour.

September is another of my own designs. The building which is on Oxford Road, used to be the logo for Manchester Uni. I thought it appropriate as the quilt was for my uni project.

I like holidays by the sea, so this block shows me and Padman a little boy I sponsored in India playing boy the sea. I don't spopnsor him anymore but I do sponsor 2 little girls Susan and Musu in Sierra Leonne. I'd highly recommend it, and I do it instead of buying Christmas presents for people who don't need them. Action Aid sort it all out and the girls write to me a couple of times a year.

Gemma and Natalie have birthdays in July; the 26th and the 28th. Nats had to be brought out undercooked. They could have shared the 26th, but I promised Gemma that I would be at her 4th birthday party so I hung on and had Nats 2 days later. Nats is the figure on the left, if you look she's got a white ribbon round her wrist and this is because around the time I made the block we went to Edinburgh for the 'make poverty history' campaign and we all wore white bracelets.

This is my very own design! My birthday in June coincides with our local Gala and when I was small I always thought that it came specially for my birthday, so this is the big wheel and riding it is my mum dad brother, sister and me

May represents my beloved babies, well they aren't really babies in the strictest sense of the word anymore. Chris is 21 Gemma is 20 and Natalie in 16

I love this block and I really enjoyed doing it. If you look closely the rain is made out of tiny beads.

I live in the Yorkshire Dales, and I'm really proud of my Yorkshire identity. The March block shows sheep, which are more prolific than people in my neck of the woods and I also wanted to represent that its often windy round here... no jokes please!

This is my February block. It represents me and my old man Gary. The tree is the only part of the original quilt which made it to the final draft. Our special word is embroibered on the heart cushion

This is the picture I did for January, its supposed to represent me flying off in the wrong direction. Anyone who knows me well will agree that I don't always get it right but hey ho its all part of the 'journey'. Serendipity here we come!