Monday 31 August 2020

August furtle

Hello! OK we are in August ..... The seasons are changing and dare i say it life is getting weirder and weirder. This thing (who shall not be named) will be with us a good while longer. We all seem to be getting on that page .... well mostly!
I am so so grateful for many things. Where i live is one of them. I am so grateful to be in the country side, I have all this on my doorstep and if I am careful i have it mostly to myself.
So whats been going on craftwise?? well it is really killing me but i am working on something i cant share!!! ITs for the GMQG and I will be able to share it in October ish but here are some sneak peaks. I am using my stash of Helen Steele printed fabrics, super designs and here is a particular favourite, hedgehogs!! How cute are these!

We took the opportunity to soak up the last of the summer sun and eat outside, dont think we will be doing that for a while!

 More hedgehogs!! there is always one which goes in the opposite direction!
 Geckos too  and a fish pie 😊
 There hasnt been much coffee and quilts action this month, but here is one with a new favourite mug! Never a truer word spoken!
 Oh i did manage some great fun marbling fabric!!! I had forgotten how much fun this was. I really do need to do more of this, very cathartic.



 I have been knitting! the Kunye shawl, using up some linen wool I bought at last years Indie burgh craft crawl, I was going to say it is going really well but last night i had to rip out about 5 rows .... never mind back on track now.
 ohh yes .... I have succumbed and made a mask out of an orphaned emboridery. It was only when i looked in the mirror i saw i looked like Hannibal Lecter! I may not wear this one going out!
I have been slowly slowly plodding along with the broken paperclip quilt, it will feature in next months furtle!
 Oh and this one too, a liberty scrap pack for Alice Caroline quilt sos
 What better way to finish off than with some epic quilt holding from the maestro himself! I squeezed in this last finish for August, radiating sparkles pattern by Mack and Mabel. This is destined to go to the Alice Caroline SOS project. a rather fitting end to the month! I hope all is well with you and yours xx


Friday 7 August 2020

Finish along Q3

 Gosh I posted about a finish but I hadn’t actually posted my list!!! I think it’s because it all on Instagram now. Are blogs really so old fashioned? I suppose so but this place is for me and that’s fine.
Righty ho Q 3 list lets be having you
No1 is the garden trellis quilt pattern from hat creek quilts, Deirdre Abel. In capel.
No2  quilt in marbled fabric

No3 broken paperclip quilt pattern by Lucy Engels
No. 4 Michael Powell bookmark
No 5 mini makes dine in Neptune and maiden fabric
No 6 is a lone star in liberty for the Alice Caroline sos
No 7 is straightforward square quilt in liberty for Alice Caroline sos
No 8 rainbow quilt
No 9 is a quilt for social bite
No10 is the Liberty happiness mini quilt
No 11 is stitch on banner
 O 12 drumroll please! I’m going to start the Dear Jane and do it in Japanese metallics. Yeah I know, dear Jane .... but had to be done!
And that’s it folks but blow me this new blogger interface is pure mince isn’t it!!