New projects

had a play with soluble stabiliser today and made a bowl in the shape of a sunflower.

Also been cutting out piles of black and white squares to make a reverse applique mini quilt.

Try Try Try again

Having a go again at thread painting and not managing.Bought a hoop last night and gave it another go.A little better but my machine just chews up the threads. I must read up and see what else to do.I WANT TO DO THIS.

Nephews

Both my nephews have had baby boys.John's son is called john and adam has a son called Adam.
John also has a little girl who I made a mermaid quilt for.

Babies

Baby quilt no 4 - top done.My hands are sore and I have new pains in my fingers oh the joys of Arthur.

Cock a doodle doooooo

Have the urge to produce a cockerel.Found some pics and will gather materials.Which one though,I could make 2 and combine them in something.Also want to do a giraffe pic and sooo many other things.

Flower pounding

Hammer,,,,,delicate flower heads,,,1 grandson....check.

Not usually words associated with each other but the results are lovely. Heard about this on quilters posts and wanted to give it a try but Jake was the only one allowed to use Grandads hammer.
I will just have to get my own cos I love this.

Latest project

Had a real bout of creative constipation. Made 3 quilts for babies,did a atc swap with Robbin on ACEO site.Been using Tyvek again but lost the photos somewhere in my finepix folder.Last night I just had to tear up some muslin into strips and using watered down PVA I made an elephant.Quite what I will do with it I do not know,but this is only stage 1.