Progressing
Almost finished!
Just the backstitch to go now.
Well, my experiment in a new craft is going pretty well so far. It started with a couple of cheap tables off TradeMe and an old dictionary (Warning to bookcrossers and other booklovers, the following images contain graphic scenes of book abuse. You may want to look away now.): It still needs another coat or…
Ages ago I asked Deb Robertson how she manages to produce so many quilts while juggling work and children, and she told me she makes a lot of use of those spare half hours at the beginning and end of the day, when you can sew a few seams, or cut a few pieces, even…
Christmas presents for my workmates. The theory was I’d make something quick and easy that I could produce multiple of in slightly different designs so I wouldn’t have to think about it too much. Except that, as always, I forgot just how much time cross-stitch takes (about an hour per letter, in case you were…
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…
This new quilt is definitely slower going than the jelly roll race one (mainly because the seams have to be pretty accurate for it to work properly), but I am making progress. I spent a couple of hours this afternoon sewing the squares I’d cut out back together again: And then this evening I cut…
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…