Christmassy Nine Patch in progress

This one has been going on forever and a day. I only ever worked on it on retreat so no surprise it never got finished. "All that's still needed" is the backing and that proves a bit of a struggle ...

Dr Seuss Kiddie door pockets

Another finish from the retreat ... and they look darling dangling from my kids' door handles!

Finished: Twoo-Hoot

I took a number of projects on the quilt retreat, this was one of them and I'm pleased to say that it's finished! I'm not too sure about the colours and fabric design but I liked how fast it came together and I really like the quilting on it. Also, this was quite the deviation from my usual fretting. All I did was divide up squares into light and dark and assemble as they appeared in their piles.

slow but progress

It's very slow going but I am enjoying hand quilting this beast again. When finished, we are looking at 220 * 220 cm of cotton glory. And yes, I now understand the benefits of trimming and exact measurements, going through five layers of fabric is quite a pain!

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.