Given up!

I have spent be trying to post a comment on another blog, but have given up!! Sorry Amo and Edwina....aaaaaaaaaaaaargh!

Stuff!

I've been doing some more knitting and sewing and finishing off the first module of Creative Quilting!

So two hot waterbottle covers and a big white shirt later...Turkey here we come!

I have a technical problem too: I can't put any comments on other blogs! Don't know what I have done...any suggestions in the bloggersphere????

Knit wit!!

It's getting cold, so what's a girl(!) to do, but...knit! A new scarf and hand warmers, coming up!

Both patterns are from Thr3fold (thanks, Catherine!) and were easy. I made the hand warmers a bit longer, to cover my wrists and keep them a bit warmer. The twirly, whirly scarf is pretty cool!

Over the weekend...

It was a rather busy weekend! I made the Purl Soho Vege Patch quilt for our wall in the hall. It's the first time I've done machine applique, but it worked out ok and given it is machine quilted, went together pretty quickly (as opposed to the French provincial style quilt that I am still hand quilting 12 months later...thank goodness for the new Ottlite!).

I'ts nice to have a change from the small Baltimore wall quilt that has graced the wall for the last 8 or 9 years and Baldrick would be very proud of the turnips!

Hello, again!

Been away from the bloggersphere for quite a while...no proper excuse, other than there's been other stuff to do!

What's been happening? I've had a 'special' birthday; been to the Australasian Quilt Convention and took Linda Steele's Scottish Reel class> Her quilts are quite magnificent, As you can see:

Also, the Creative Quilting course is continuing, slowly (very!, but surely:

I'm still on the drawing/colour/painting module, but getting towards the end.

Thankfully, given this week's wintry weather, I've been able to keep warm with my hand quilting!

Wet!!

Woke up to a very wet morning...the garden is soaked after it rained all night!

A perfect day for my birthday present, but more of that later in the week! I'll just have to hope for more rain, to christen them.

Crafty Day

As usual it never rains, but it pours!

Spent this morning working on my Friday Night Fix book:

I do not know why the images are the way they are, but I'm unable to fix it...quirks of technology, I guess...one upside down and the other portrait, instead of landscape.  There is a silver sugar spoon in there and a photo of it as well, with inks and pastels.
Then is was onto dyeing some silk organza and threads, for the trial run of a project that has been in my head for about 18 months:

Still in the bags at this stage, will wash out later.
And then onto photos for Creative Quilting...not good as usual! The feather was impossible, so I have substituted a blue ginger jar. Now all I have to do is the real work of swatches and paint!