Finally finished the backstitch and beading on the dragon: Now I’ve just got to find somewhere to get it framed, seeing as my favourite framer is gone. Or maybe I’ll just add it to the ever-growing stash of things to round to framing one day… Now, what should I do next?
I decided to use this weekend to skip ahead a bit in the In Flight quilt-along, in an attempt to have the whole thing finished a few weeks ahead of schedule, and avoid that nasty clash with the start of semester. Having not participated in a quilt-along before, I’m not sure what the ettiquette is…
o it turns out that (as I kind of knew it would be) the pattern I designed is horribly complicated to sew. Lots of tiny fiddly bits, and sections that need to be lined up (read: sewn and unpicked because it’s wrong and resewn and unpicked again…), with the added challenge that because it’s a…
The second Block of the Whenever is a nice simple Churn Dash. Nice and simple, but another block I’ve never tried before (possibly because of the whole “leap into the deep end before you try out the paddling pool” thing I’m so prone to…) Because this block has a plain centre square, I picked out…
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…
The birds are definitely getting harder as we go along. Getting all the sections to line up properly on the swallow was hard work (and, although you can’t really tell in the finished square, I didn’t entirely succeed), especially that final seam. And this is only the half-way point! I suspect the final few birds…
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Nice start. 🙂