THE LONG DISTANCE TRAVEL DISTRACTION QUILT!

Here it is folks...
the long-distance-travel-distraction-quilt!!!


I'm unreasonably proud of it, given how poor the workmanship is.

But I'm also assured that given the amount of superglue and cotton I used, there is no chance Miss Q could pull anything off and cause a transatlantic medical emergency by choking on a plastic eyeball.

I've actually used the backside of an eye-spy quilt that one of Gregory's fabulous aunts made for Miss Q.

See, I'm not just a brilliant seamstress.
I'm also a tight-arse, double-using piggy-backer.

I hope the aunt in question sees the fact that I've redecorated her piece as an honour and not as the poorly executed sabotage of quilting mastery that it more likely is.

CRAWLING, DISTRACTION QUILTS AND HOW I SUPERGLUED MY WEDDING RING

Miss Q is crawling.

It’s not pretty, nor is it consistent, (she sort of looks like a confused tadpole on her way to becoming a frog) but she’s doing it.

I tell you, it nearly made this besotted mama cry.

Then I really did cry because I realised my time for Q-proofing the house has arrived.

Possibly, if I’d been organised like my mother always is (I means it’s not like I couldn’t see this coming) I would already have done this.

But why change form now?

Instead I’ve spent the evening working on a distraction quilt in preparation for our upcoming commutes – two weddings in regional Australia and one in New York.

It’s the idea of a fellow mother and traveller friend of mine.

She attached zippers, buttons, different fabrics and so on to a sheet of fabric and it entertained her son from here to…well at least until they’d taxied out of the airport anyway.

So I thought I’d do the same.

Only she can sew.

And I can’t.

So I used superglue and have just googled how to remove superglue from your fingers…and also your wedding ring.

I try.

Really I do.

But as is usual with anything crafty, my enthusiasm far outweighs my abilities.

Perhaps my sewing skills will improve in tandem with my daughter’s ability to crawl.

I sure hope so, otherwise we’re both in trouble.