This and that and the other

After all my complaining regarding stippling Caroline's Objects and receiving a very good tip (thanks, Shevvy!), I was ready to send the needle flying across this quilt and finally get it done. Instead I'm stuck on the sofa with a tummy bug and too weak (boo hoo) to sew. To keep me busy, I've picked up yet another project: a Granny Squary blanket to make a dent into all that yarn I purchased over the years:

The white was purchased when I was first pregnant eight years ago (eight? Oh my God!), I think I saw the multicoloured at a craft shop maybe 18 months ago and the source of the purple one remains unclear. I've noew used up almost half the multicoloured yarn, a sixth of the purple and about an eighth of the white. ... Should be interesting ...

Have I mentioned ...

... that I hate stippling? I'm still struggling with what is just a lapsize quilt. I'm not sure it's my lack of patience or a technical problem or what but the thread keeps ripping and the tension keeps go off on me. What a spectacular waste of time. But must be completed! Regardless!!!

The worst thing is that when it's going well I am really enjoying it.

Aaaargh, not for the faint-hearted or not-so-determined!

This stippling business is proving to be a Nightmare! It took me ages to sort out the tension and I'm guessing that different thickness of thread is not helping nor is my lack of patience. But I will keep at it and next time will use similar thread on both sides.

Spoonflower delivers!

The orange is somewhat off but that may have to do with uncalibrated TFTs. I think I will have to tweak the b/w photo somewhat because it seems pretty dingey and dark but then we're "all systems go"!

Home found for Pink Zig

I have just spoken to my cousin and - unbeknown to him - the Pink Zig has found its "target", a sweet baby girl to be born this summer. Yay.

My first New York Beauty block

I spent Saturday at Birgit Klein's Patchcom learning how to sew over paper and do New Beauties. It was a most excellent class, in fact it drew students from as far as Mannheim and Heidelberg, including members of the Hearts and Castles Quilt Guild.

Tula Pink's Neptune

What the hell am I doing, I sometimes wonder ... because I didn't have enough of the script fabric to finish the backing of my Night on the Tiles, I started Caroline's Objects. When I wanted to stipple it, I realised that I wasn't getting the tension right so went off to look for the machine's manual. Couldn't find it so set off to look for it online. Since they were charging 8 quid plus postage, I decided to go back and look again. I did find it in the end, however I thought that starting another project would be more fun.

So here it is, the beginning of my first half square triangle quilt. When did I decide that sewing with triangles is fun? Weird!

And tomorrow, I will attend a quilt class and start yet another project: New York Beauties. I am very excited about that!

Assembly halted by lack of swirly fabric

My first experiment in Spoonflower

I spent my Friday evening fiddling on Spoonflower and am now excited to receive two fat quarters of circuit board prints.

Help needed: looking for computer themed fabric

I am planning a quilt for my cousin and his wife. She's a concert pianist and music professor, he's a computer geek and programmer for tax advisors.

My idea is a double-sided piece, one representing her, one representing him. Because I'm always strapped for time, it'll be a very simple design and what I need is "computer" themed fabric: something along the lines of 0-1-0 or keyboards or motherboards etc.

Does anybody have any recommendations? Ideas? Links to shops?

Block Party: Modern Stripey Circle Block

I wanna play ... but I'm sure I will soon implode with the number of UFOs beginning to float around my sewing room:

Stripey Circles Tutorial.