Here is Malcolm's latest creation, basking in the sunshine this morning. It looks grey here, but it is actually a very stylish black
the little conifer was from a pot in the front garden, which it had outgrown, and we bought the three little plants yesterday. It still needs some more plants, but it is looking good
this afternoon I sat down in the studio, with the stove blazing to keep me warm and watched a film, while I hand stitched the binding on the big runner
next, the piece of fabric which Maureen gave me. I managed to cut eight six-inch strips
which I then cross cut to give me a total of twenty four squares, with only the smallest of scraps left over
I looked out the remains of a jelly roll, which I had got some time age from Sandra, our lovely Linus lady
I sorted out the strips into pairs of a coloured one and a green one
I stitched a strip down one side of two squares
cut off the extra and stitched it to the other side
I cut the two squares apart and pressed the seams
then did the same on the other two sides with a green strip. When I put them on the design wall, I had thought of arranging them like this
but this afternoon I had a rethink, and decided to do half the squares like that, and half the other way round, with short green strips and long coloured strips. It will look better once I have done more squares and mixed the colours more
to finish - I found this photo earlier, when I was looking back through last month's photos, and thought that it might make a good quilting pattern (it's a tractor's tyre track in the sand).