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Progress and a sigh of relief
I have been all around the houses with this quilt, but I have finally moved it on a bit.Since I last posted about it I have contemplated adding smaller blocks, adding a darker block, adding sashing...
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I'm just dropping in here to say that I'm not really doing much sewing, though I have nearly finished prettying up my wee house so hopefully I'll be back to it fairly soon. I am hand quilting still,...
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A bit of binding
Today I am starting to bind Taking Flight, which feels like a big achievement right now. In fact, I shall see if I can take a couple of days over it, just to prolong that feeling of satisfaction at...
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Taking Flight: done and dusted
Hooray! Just when I needed it, I have a finish and I don't know whether it's just because everything else has stalled or not but I'm really happy with this.I like the wonky string blocks, I like the...
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Feeling summery
I know that the process of selling and buying a house works a bit differently in the US but here, once you are on the market, nothing else can happen until you have a buyer. So I had a plan for this...
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Sugar and spice
I started off thinking I might keep this quilt really, really simple and used scissors to cut some square-ish bits. I let the size be dictated by the magpie fabric - this was as big as I could get...
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Melting ice cream
Putting my blocks together on the floor it became pretty clear to me that I don't really want them touching each other - they just blend into an overwhelming mess of sweetness, a bit like a pool of...
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A lighthouse moment
No movement on my sugar and spice quilt, but I finished the last of the cushion (or pillow) covers that I started last summer. Or rather I thought I had finished but now that I look at it on the...
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Possibly, maybe...
Possibly, just possibly, this is going somewhere okay.I spent a week away from the ice cream colours thinking, basically, that this was a big fat no. Too sweet, too mushy, too much like hard work....
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Going backwards to go forwards
I feel like I am finally getting somewhere, though I am mostly unpicking what I have already done and reworking it. Both the bigger pieces here have had changes and I like them better for it.These...
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More like it
I have made better progress in the last couple of days and the addition of those extra prints is definitely helping to take this (and me) to a better place.Once I get a fair number of bits I like to...
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Keeping track
There's not much to be said about this right now, but I'm posting just to keep track of progress.Again, this is not the final layout but I am playing around now with how the pieces fit together and...
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Tiny crosses fill my days
I am not expecting to piece much next week, so am pushing hard to make progress while things seem to be working. I am reminded that there is always a big gap between that moment when I think I know...
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Checking in, catching up
Normal life has resumed and I am going to try hard not to take another three weeks to get back to blogging and blog reading. That seems to have been my pattern in the last year, pause...still...
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Today I took photos
Well, I have managed to keep sewing but if I want to keep up with the blogging I will have to do a better job of taking photos. I sat down on Saturday, all ready to post what I had done on Friday only...
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Not far to go
Today the good news is that I found my last strip of brown fabric. It's not huge, (those tiles are 13" square, to give you an idea) but then I don't need much. I could probably have coped without it,...
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Sugar and Spice: done for now
I'm not sure I like the name 'Sugar and Spice', since I'm not especially keen on the nursery rhyme it brings to mind, but it seems to have stuck, Maybe I'll come up with something better in the...
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Sewing too, too slowly
In fact I am pretty much grinding to a halt. In addition to the usual summer holiday lull I am contending with a big pile of work for the end of this week, an impending trip away, chickenpox (which in...
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End of summer catch up
Well that was the summer. Already here the air smells of the coming winter, but I shall try to enjoy the autumn and not fret too much about the fact that in a month or two it will be unpleasantly cold...
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Things are never simple but maybe they ought to be
So much for gathering momentum! I have good excuses for my failure to blog, though not worth bothering you with, but I have at least been sewing.Not that the sewing is straightforward. It seems like...
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