As promised, a picture of the quilt top I sewed for my supervisor’s baby while I was on sick leave: It’s an “eye spy” quilt – each of the squares is a fabric with different pictures on it (or letters or numbers, in some), so when the child gets older it becomes an eye spy…
(I think the photo in the previous entry may have been upside down. But I’m sure you spotted that… ;-))
I had a few friends around for a pot-luck dinner on Friday night. Not everyone I’d invited could make it – some were out of town, or had other plans, or cancelled because of illness (or in one case just forgot – I got a very apologetic email the next morning), but the few of…
ight, I’ve decided my impulse to just give away all those old cross-stitch projects that have been languishing in the bottom of my trunk since I finished them is a good one, so this is the first in an occasional series of giveaway posts. I’m not sure exactly how this is going to work, and…
My overly-ambitious attempt at a harder paper-piecing pattern actually turned out pretty well. Can you tell what it is yet? All those bits put together. The final product. I still haven’t decided what to do with the heart I made the other day, but I knew what this one would be before I started. Making…
Work in progress (yes, it is as sticky and clumpy and hard to apply delicately as it looks): Design complete and henna dry, now I’ve just got to wait a couple of hours: And the end result: That was after 2.5 hours (I was aiming for 3, but I forgot the number one rule of…
Nice start. 🙂