Progressing
Almost finished!
Just the backstitch to go now.
I still haven’t got round to buying more of the blue thread I’m using for the Birds in Flight quilt, so in the meantime I’ve been working on the Lego quilt. This time I’m quilting it much more loosely (to keep the quilt nice and soft, seeing as it’s intended for a baby), so it’s…
As usual when life gets busy, I get worse at journalling. The main thing that’s been taking up my time (apart from work), is studying. I knew the Honours year is a hard one, but I didn’t know it would be HARD. We’re only three weeks into term, and I’m already finding it a…
I made a start on quilting the eye-spy quilt yesterday. I didn’t get very far, unfortunately, because after about half an hour I suddenly seemed to have lost all my carefully practised skill at controlling the speed. Now, no matter how gently I pressed on the foot pedal, I could only produce either dead stop…
I think I’ve decided on a layout. But then, I thought I’d decided on a layout an hour ago, until I took a photo of it to use as a reference, and it looked completely different in the photo than it had on the floor (probably because it fills so much of the floor that…
It’s stinking hot today (seriously – I hung out a load of washing, and it was dry before the second load was even finished in the washing machine), so of course it was the perfect day to spend sitting over a hot ironing board working on my latest project. It’s for a Christmas present, but…
I’ve always suspected being social is a dangerous thing. I proved it on Tuesday night, when, waving to my neighbour as we always do when I happen to arrive home while she’s in her front yard, I thought I’d actually stop and say hello for a change. As I was talking to her, I leant…