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…
Yep, looks much better with decent lighting: It’s not complete though – there’s some stuff I want to add to it yet. Parsnips obviously thinks that what’s missing is a cat:
It seems the earth wants to remind us that just because it’s a new year, that doesn’t mean the end of the aftershocks. We were rudely awakened twice during the night by big ones, a 5.1 at about half past one, and then a 5.5 at quarter to six. Followed, of course, by a string…
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…
emester starts tomorrow, so I was hoping to spend the weekend on a last burst of sewing to get the last two birds done. But best laid plans and all that – I’m coming down with a cold (not *too* bad so far, but as almost everyone I know has had some variety of nasty…
Apologies for the awful photo – I finished sewing all the bits together quite late tonight, so I had the choice of either a washed-out photo using a flash, or a yellowish photo using just the light in the room. Neither came out great, but I’ve colour-corrected it as best I can. I’ll try and…
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That is a beauty!!
Lovely!!!
So so beautiful !