Moving right along ...

thanks to a new quilters' group I've joined. Sadly - but mercifully - it only meets once a month - I couldn't possibly squeeze in more appointments. But it's finally a group that meets to work. All the others I've visited meet to chat. And I don't like that.

It's a diverse group of women, predominantly local with a few US Americans thrown in. All seem to be working mums, most a good ten to twenty years older than myself and much more experienced too. Some are stitchers, one owns the quilt shop where we meet - insta-supply!

And this is how I'm getting on with things.



Following Jan's advice, I popped down the road to my local DIY store and bought insulating boards. Sadly they don't come in the size I require so I bought two and taped them together. Hubby's now promised to make a frame of sorts for them.

They came as a godsent, I shuffled the blocks around and around and then around some more. Then I turned the board on its side and on its head and shuffled the blocks around some more. For the most part, the design wall resides in my laundry room so that I can stare at it while folding laundry ...


And this is my largest oeuvre to date: Carola with chocolate sauce on her face ...

No surprise really ...

... that I'm not feeling too balanced. I have not quilted in a long time! The lay-out for my Turning Twenty is final and I should really take a photo of in on my design wall.

I have been messing about with backing fabrics and decided that the ones I bought in early August are lovely but not quite right. So I went and bought more. Which is waiting to be ironed. In the meantime, it seems that the place that irons all my linens (a very traditional and normal service to have in Germany) has lost my first batch. About $110 worth of fabrics. I am so upset!!! And I cannot even say "find it or I will not come back" because they are the only decent business of that kind in my area.