Hooray, woohoo and other such exclamations! The roads here were clear this morning, and Lucie emailed first thing to say that the roads were clear down her way, so we were able to meet up as arranged at Anne's. Malcolm dropped me off, and went on down the road to Morpeth, to visit his sister Jennifer. Lucie and I compared our versions of Lilly Pilly
This is Lucie, standing in front of the Notes of Love which I made for Anne, and which she longarm quilted
only two of the Wednesday regulars were there today. Ros was working on an applique block
and Frances was hand-piecing star blocks
I came home with lots of fabric, which I will show you tomorrow. So, back to yesterday and the two projects which I unearthed. First, the one that was almost finished. As you can see from the stamp on the bag, I bought this little kit in New Plymouth, in New Zealand. This was when I went to the Quilt Symposium in 2001 (I said to Malcolm can I go to New Zealand and he famously replied "you can go if you want to"!!)
I don't know why I didn't finish it, as there wasn't much left to do
I stitched on the buttons, which were included in the kit, then looked out more buttons to add to the little wooden reels to make the hanging loop. I'll put some double-sided tape on the reels and wind some thread round them
the other kit I found is for a pincushion
when I looked at the instructions, I realised that I had a circle template which is the right size for marking out the sashiko pattern
over the last few sessions in the studio, I have been watching my box set of season 1 of Game of Thrones
blood and guts, treachery, betrayal, handsome men (quite often nearly naked!), fabulous costumes ...... what more could you ask for!