ecember weather is notoriously changeable in Christchurch, but it’s been outdoing itself this year – the temperature has been going from high 20s to just above freezing and back again in the space of a few days, and yesterday we had two huge storms, with thunder and hail and all sorts of drama. The first…
(Warning to family-type people who read this blog: there are Christmas-present spoilers below. If you don’t want the surprise ruined, stop reading now. Alternatively, if anything really catches your eye, let me know and I’ll make sure that one’s your present 🙂 ) anuary and the start of my masters is looming large, so I’m…
This whole having a weekend off thing is fun! It’s meant I managed to finish off the last* bird of the Birds in Flight quilt-a-long, the thrush: *well, technically the last. I still want to re-make the wren sometime with the colours going the right direction, so I’m not completely finished, but at least now…
emester starts tomorrow, so I was hoping to spend the weekend on a last burst of sewing to get the last two birds done. But best laid plans and all that – I’m coming down with a cold (not *too* bad so far, but as almost everyone I know has had some variety of nasty…
Ok, so my plan for this weekend was to put the binding on my experimental quilt. But the three new In Flight patterns were tempting me, as was an idea I’d had back when I was making the original birds, of reversing the plain background and scrappy foreground. I never followed up the idea at…
decided to take a very long weekend this weekend, because (a) all the stress and uncertainty at work has been very tiring, so a break is definitely in order, (b) my leave is again accumulating to a point that HR will soon start sending me friendly reminders that I really do need to get my…
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…
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!