D’s been down again, so of course I’ve spent the last day and a half composing all sorts of interesting and amusing blog posts in my head, and now that it’s back up I can’t remember any of them. So instead, a few highlights of the past few days: On Friday I discovered that there…
I’m at home this morning while the painters finish off the repairs to the ceiling, so, having run out of work I can usefully do from home, I decided to return to my experimental quilt and practice some more free-motion quilting. The pattern is called Nikki’s Jigsaw Puzzle, and was a nice easy one to…
In the wake of the last few patchworky/quilty projects I’ve been working on, I’ve accumulated quite a stash of fabric scraps that are too small to really be useful, but too big to throw away, so I’ve just been collecting them all together in a “might come in handy one day” pile. Anyway, now that…
Getting too dark to get a decent photo, but I couldn’t wait until morning to take it in better light 🙂 Of course, there’s still a lot of work still to do – this is just the quilt top, I’ve still got to do the actual quilting part – but that’s going to wait for…
aven’t had much time to work on my quilt, because the weekend has been so full of other stuff. I’ve got about a quarter of it sewn together though, so that’s a start. Yesterday’s outing was to Ashburton with Lytteltonwitch. She’d heard there was a “Stash Re-hash” market being held, which promised lots of cheap…
I think I’ve decided on a layout. But then, I thought I’d decided on a layout an hour ago, until I took a photo of it to use as a reference, and it looked completely different in the photo than it had on the floor (probably because it fills so much of the floor that…
Yep, that’s the final bird done – the osprey. So yay, finished all the birds! Except now it’s the hard part – I’ve got to figure out the layout to get them all onto a quilt. I do have a rough plan sketched out, but of course, I’m likely to change my mind on a…
But I finally finished the eagle: Only one more bird to go!
So yeah, “in the morning when the light’s better” assumes there actually will be better light in the morning, not gloomy and overcast. But I took a photo under the fluorescent kitchen light, and it came out slightly closer to the actual colours: Anyway, I dropped it off to Judy this morning, and she totally…
But I got it done! (I’ll try and remember to take a better photo in the morning when the light’s better, before I wrap it up to take into work and Judy’s farewell party). I had ambitious plans to quilt it with a leafy or flowery design, but then I reminded myself I only had…