ust got back from town, where I bought myself a birthday present. If I tell you it was small, very expensive, and made of metal, I’m sure some of you will be thinking jewellery. Nope, sorry to disappoint you, but it’s actually a quilting foot for The Beast. I’ve been using a darning foot for…
Still no news on the work front, other than that the VC is currently considering our business case, and hopefully should make a decision before our contracts run out (again…). I’m not sure if I want him to make a decision quickly just to remove the agony of waiting, or if him taking his time…
A couple more FMQ squares for my experimental quilt (at this rate, winter will be over before I get it finished…): This pattern is called Happy Blossoms, and it was a nice fun one to sew (even if I got confused on a few of the flowers) – it flows quite nicely. And this is…
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…
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…
artankiwi has announced a “quilt-along” for a quilt she’s designed, and I’m so tempted to join in. It’s an amazing design, featuring all sorts of paper-pieced birds, with loads of different options for the final layout. And I really enjoyed doing the wee challenge with the butterflies, seeing how everyone interpreted the pattern differently. But. …