Three more squares done, using patterns from the ‘A Few Scraps‘ blog: “Topography” – I like this one almost as much as the wood grain one – nice and easy, forgiving of mistakes, and looks cool when it’s done. “Leafy Branches” – a bit trickier (lots of backtracking!), but looks great. I was really starting…
In my 2013 in review post, I wrote “…instead of hoping that next year is a better one, I’m going to say that I’m going to make sure that next year I continue to make my life what I want it to be, and that I’ll keep surrounding myself with what gives me joy.” And…
For the first time since I started keeping these reading lists, I dipped below 100 books read this year – my total was only 93. I suspect the main reason for that is that I got out of habit of reading for pleasure in the first half of the year, when I was reading so…
It’s 2015 here in New Zealand, even if most of the rest of the world is still to catch up, and has dawned a lovely sunny day after yesterday’s rain. I reckon that augurs great things for the year – and even if it doesn’t, I fully intend to have a good year anyway 🙂 …
I’m looking after a colleague’s animals for a few days while she’s away – a cat, and (unusually for a suburban household) two chickens. I’ve discovered there are advantages to looking after chickens – while the cat just gave me tonnes of affection when I turned up this morning, the chickens gave me a gift:…
“Square meander” “Nesting boxes” – further proof that I’m not good at the structured, regular stuff. Of course, I could have done something sensible like draw in chalk guidelines first, but where’s the fun in that? “Paisley” And then work ground to a halt because I ran out of cotton. So I’ll have to walk…
This is the second time I’ve written this post. This morning I wrote a long (and, of course, incredibly witty and entertaining) version of it, but when I hit publish WordPress just laughed at me and ate it. And I didn’t have time to re-write it straight away, because I had to run off and…
definite theme is developing with this quilt: find ways to use up all those random experimental blocks that I made to try things out but then didn’t actually know what to do with. Oh, and break the rules a bit and don’t do things you’re supposed to do with proper quilts. Which is why I’ve…
Remember this? I’d started making a wee lap quilt back in August, but put it aside when I got busy with other projects, and the squares have been sitting in a pile on my desk ever since waiting for inspiration to strike. With all of my Christmas projects out of the way, and wanting something…
Now that Christmas is out the way, I can finally show you all the work-in-progress photos I took of the secret project I spent the last few days working on – a Christmas/welcome home/house re-warming present for Lytteltonwitch. Planning: Sewing: Quilting: And the finished product: I’m pretty proud of my work 🙂 I stumbled across…