Rush, rush, rush! I am doing this and making the dinner, as this is the night for Abbey Quilters, so I'm a bit harassed! So - straight into the photos. For my fmq practice this morning, I decided not to do it in a square, as Leah does, as I kept getting in a muddle trying to quilt up to the edges. Instead I just did my spirals in the middle of the hoop, and I am far happier with them
Now I just have to master coming back out of the spiral in the middle, and not wander all over the place
Over the weekend, I had a blitz on the hexagons, and have cut all the fabric ones, and have almost cut enough papers
Today I was working on the next two Farmer's Wife blocks. The first block had lots of little pieces ......
..... and there may have been a lot of use of the steam iron to persuade the pieces to fit (I think I will have to make this one again!)
Fortunately the second block had bigger pieces .......
....... and went together more easily
So that's now eight blocks finished. I think I may make enough to make a lap quilt, then when that it done do another set of blocks, rather than just keep making blocks. I'm sorry the colours look a bit odd in this photo, but it has been such a grey, miserable day we had to have the light on, which changed the colours in the photo
I got a nice surprise when I went out to shut the outer storm doors of the studio .... the sheep are back in the field, having been moved to another field some weeks ago