An even quicker post!

As nothing got done today apart from cooking - oh, and Cheese Major installed the goodies from the broadband supplier which arrived a week early.

So I now have a laptop connected to the Internet and a new all-singing, all dancing mobile phone.

You have to realise that my previous mobile was very 20th century and didn't really do anything except send and receive phone calls - and this new one seems to do everything apart from cook the dinner. I have a steep learning curve ahead of me as I am dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century.

Today's green image is one made with kaleido, which is very addictive. I can't remember what the original photo was, although I suspect some trees were involved ...


And I did post my 'Brave New World?' quilt on 'Around the World in 20 Quilts' and a doodle on 'Doodle Day' but you'll have to go over there to see them ...

It has been a time for finishing off things.

I have finished my quilt for 'Around the World in 20 Quilts' - in good time, as it isn't due until the end of the month, when you can see it in it's entirety. I started it a while ago but in the middle of my insomniac night last night I suddenly couldn't remember where it was. Panic!

So today I found it [not too difficult as it turned out] and finished it. This was all I had left to do - and several other similar clusters. The topic is 'Brave New World'.




I have also turned my Stitched Textile Design Group piece into a cushion, as it told me to. I really wanted red velvet, but all the velvet I could find was reddy orange, not reddy pink. Even finding this cream was difficult as all the others were too yellow.




I am not a proficient cushion maker, but I am pleased with the result. I won't show you the back as I was very bad and didn't do a fancy closure, as a good C&G person should have done ...


And for my last turquoise image - an old photo of my favourite small person. She's a bit bigger now but still looks good in turquoise.



I think we will move on to red tomorrow. [She looks good in red, too.]

Two simple little stamps ...

inspired by some simple tiles. They were quickly carved from two long erasers

And I like the result.

I didn't think the half drop pattern on the right would work as well as it did.

Obviously these could be patchwork, or canvas work, but I think they might also work as a satin stitch border on an even weave fabric - they remind me of the sort of white on white embroidery found in some European embroidery.

A short post today because the quilt for 'Around the World in 20 quilts' has been coming along well and has kept me busy. Here's a snippet.

Good job I didn't tackle this as my first step towards getting back into free motion quilting - the machine did not like quilting it. It had done set stitches on the background with no trouble at all but free motion? Not likely. I think it was probably the nylon thread it didn't like - not surprising, I don't like it much either.

I think it looks worse because the fabric-paper background is unforgiving and the holes show in the close up. I am telling myself that it looks better from a distance ...