..... the squeals of anguish coming from the studio late this afternoon? I had finished sewing for the day, put the quilt up on the design wall, taken photos, tidied up, had one last look at the quilt before I went back to the house ....... and no no no no ......
But to start at the beginning of the latest progress of the quilt. Havinng finished eleven of the twelve stitcheries ( and almost finished the last one), the next job was to trim them to size, making sure the stitching was centred
I then added them to the design wall, first of all just putting them in the spaces as I trimmed them
But then I consulted the pattern, and ended up with a much more balanced distribution
I then stitched the blocks together in rows, then stitched the rows together
When I went out to the studio this morning, I thought it wouldn't take me long to add the three outer borders. WRONG!! First I added the plain border and the flying geese to the top and bottom. This was a slow process, making sure I didn't cut off any of the points (this photo shows my second attempt, as I had stitched the bottom row of geese on facing the wrong way, as they are supposed to fly clockwise round the quilt)
I then had to stitch short strips and squares to the other two sets of flying geese, as well as the plain inner border, before adding them. Now, having sewn one lot on the wrong way, you would think that I would have been extra careful to get the second lot correct. But not only are the right hand ones going the wrong way ....
...... I didn't notice when I took that photo, and still didn't notice when I put a couple of strips of the outer border in place and took this photo
However, apart from the naughty geese flying the wrong way, I am delighted with how it looks. The same cannot be said for today's weather!! We didn't really take the forecasters seriously when they said we would have snow, thinking we would maybe see a few flakes ...... another WRONG! This was the view through the lounge window this morning
And this was from the bedroom window - that's my car windscreen, covered with snow, in the background
Then this was the view at tea time
However, the roads are clear, and it is unlikely the snow will linger. To end on a cheerier note, I captured the sparrows having fun in the birdbath yesterday evening