twoo hoot, twoo hoot, finally finished with the quilting

I have no idea what took me so long but after a false start - with the wrong colour - I just whipped through quilting this top. Straight line quilting is my new love!

Getting back onto the horse

During summer it seems that sewing and other needle crafts came to a complete halt here ... the last quilt related accomplishment was auditioning quilting thread for the owly quilt:

Round 1:


Round 2:


Apparently then I completely forgot about my decisions and started quilting using white thread, which looked somewhere between ugly and weird. So I recently spent an evening unpicking it all ... only to realise that I really couldn't for the life of me remember the selection I only made less than three months ago.

Well, thanks to my blog-keeping, I had an excellent source of intel. Not. I hadn't even recorded the above yet. Let's hope I won't forget again! And that I stay on the horse!

Mixed Media kiddie craft

canvas sampler with appliqued treasures, click on this link to view = perfect kiddie craft for dark winter weekends ... thanks to Nova.

Packing in ...

My sewing room will be renovated / painted because we are selling our house because we have bought a new place that we will move into sometime next spring.

So I need to pack in a lot of my fabric loot ... yikes! That means that I need to plan ahead what I want to work on until we move next year.

- Night on the Tiles
- Twoo hoot
- Christmassy Disappearing Nine Patch

There will have to be one "creative" or scrappy project and one woolly one, probably this cowl. The scrappy project is a bit of a challenge so maybe I should peruse http://scrapquilts.com/ ...? Or maybe even doing a Fading Charms quilt?

This should be interesting!

Ruined it ...

So I was fiddling with possible templates and blogger decided to swallow my custom template and not allow me the revoke the change ...

but it is a good excuse for an overhaul and upgrade, isn't it?

UPDATE: I hate the new template interface ... can't seem to add any buttons, flickr, my finished projects broken down by year ... lost all my links to tutorials ... not a happy camper here.

UPDATE 2: slowly getting there but not quite happy yet ...

UPDATE 3: ok, finally getting there.

Catching up on UFOs

The upside of having a few UFOs knocking around my sewing room is that during that weird period after finishing one piece and before beginning a new project, there is satisfying work to keep me busy:
Baby Zig will go to Greta, sister of Helena the Great and Emergency Elisa.


HST Neptune was a fun little project and I love the quilting on it. Just ignore the white wine spills .... I only need to finish the corners and tie up loose ends on both of those. And then there is an owly UFO awaiting sandwiching and basting ... it's already taped to my sewing room floor.

Another finish: Nostalgia

It was a race against time but I made it and am pleased to report that Nostalgia was finished just in time for my BFF's big 4-0. And she LOVED it. In fact, she and her guests loved it. Two of my close friends - of Vague Heart fame - actually approached me to ask whether they could order one from me. I was beyond chuffed.