Winter has definitely arrived. There was even a dusting of snow on the ground this morning (impressive, considering it rained most of the night, so the ground was pretty wet). So far it hasn’t managed to get above 3o today, with a messy mix of rain, hail, and sleet (and occasional bursts of either real…
I finally finished the quilt top for the Little Squares quilt! SO MANY seams to match! I am starting to understand why people put sashing between quilt blocks. I’m really pleased with how it looks, though: Now I’ve just got to quilt it. I’ve got a few ideas for what I want to do, but…
Those of you who know me in real life (TM) will know that for the past year or two I’ve been muttering about how one day I’m going to suddenly cut off all my hair. Well, one day arrived… Yeah, bit of a drastic change 🙂 (Although in photos it doesn’t really look all that…
My plan to use spare half hours to sew failed the moment the really cold weather set in, because I’d forgotten just how cold the study can get in winter (for some reason to do with the way the hallway bends just before the door to the study, the warmth from the fire, which happily…
Finished making the nine-patches. All 113 of them. I’m slowly getting better at getting all the seams to match up with each other properly (nine-patches are very good practice for that!). I haven’t got as far as actually sewing the blocks together (too much of a social life this weekend, going out to a Toastmasters…
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…
…start something new 🙂 I still haven’t made up my mind about the border for the Three Dudes quilt (which (prompted by Mum asking why it was called Three Dudes, and me realising that the answer was that it was based loosely on a quilt design that was based loosely on a quilt design that…
(With apologies for the terrible photographs – I keep forgetting that the lighting in the study in winter isn’t particularly conducive to getting colour-accurate photos. On the plus side, I have managed to reinstall decent photo-editing software, so at least I could crop and resize them without too much pain…) The jelly roll race quilt…
Having been unsuccessful at figuring out which wire to wiggle to get my second hard drive working again, I gave in and paid a professional to look at it. And it turns out that the reason my wire-wiggling wasn’t working this time was because the hard drive had entirely failed. So, unless I want to…
Sorry about the delay in posting. A combination of being too busy, and having many many photos I wanted to add to a post, but my computer’s been playing up again (I’m about to give up and pay someone to fix it properly, because my “wiggle a few wires and hope” fix keeps failing) and…