Garden comes alive, and Tigers are Gothy

First sparks of my "lasagne" planted pot...

Tiny irises. I managed to put enough gravel on the pots to keep out the mice this year

Gothy Tiger 4'6" square

New Goth Baby Quilt - this is Gothy Tiger

Detail

Free to a good home - conditions - you must ask for yourself or your child, not for "a friend" or "they might like", and no, Linus isn't going to want this...

Plain fabrics are all Oakshott shot cottons, so this is washable. Cotton wadding

Hellebores

and primroses...

 

Despite the Sunshine...

 ...I'm tired and I hurt. This Getting Old is not for the faint-hearted...
I did manage a walk on the beach yesterday, at Kessingland.  Nice dogs, lots of pebbles, driftwood, large and small boats

Entertaining wall art (actually a very nicely-decorated village, with many stained-glass doors and the like) - the house this was on had three of these and lots of boaty motifs all round

I assume this will have plants later - like the idea

Lovely crusty paintwork...

And, is it a bird?

Actually, no, seaweed...

Word (Phrase) For The Year

Delayed by brain-fog and tiredness. I do not recommend this year's flu, try another kind for best results

Anyway, this year I found a phrase -

"What Have We Here"

Thinking on...

Just remaking the Tutor Boxes page, removing the old MQGB site, sorting my sewing room and doing a deal of lying down...

All the old samples heading off to new homes, thanks to all who requested...
Links here for the new pages

https://www.modernartquilters.co.uk/patterns/tutorboxes.html 

A Not Very Exciting Holiday Season

 Flu. Been really slow and low and unable to eat anything much. It's been cold and foggy and I feel much the same

Highlight of the week - sorting my untidy bobbin boxes and building a couple of new shelves next to my sewing machine, a much-needed addition to the room...

Feeding cats, of course

Rosie on the table

And Jim underneath...

And roadkill - note the delightful colour-co-ordination between this athletic sock and the Post Office wall

And someone had too many sweeties...

Best Laid Plans

...go Oft Astray
HB's dad was ill, so no Week of Miniatures. I came home and got distracted. And then there were the "can I have it for Christmas"  enquiries for the sewing machine stuff, all of which seemed to involve attics, rewiring, and swearing.. Post now finished for the year, so I was planning a Grand Tidy-up

And, now, have the flu. My Support Network is doing well, I have care packages and shopping and fetch-and-carry all working, and all I can do is sleep in my armchair in front of bad TV...

Caught this at the last Repair Cafe of the year - yes, you, with your "cold" and calling me a coward, I really really hate you

Sigh

Week Of Miniatures - Day One

 We are making teeny quilts. Lots of fun, but not much diminution of the stash...

Many years ago, at a Quilters' Guild AGM in Newcastle (-Upon-Tyne, of course) I made this wee version of my Cats Quilts as a finalisation of the Quilt Types Set (Modern, Traditional, Contemporary, Miniature).. I then gave it to the Miniature Group, who promptly lost it... Sigh

Squares and strips cut to 1 inch, so the whole thing was about 5-1/2 inches square. 

And, while tidying, I found the delightful ombre lawn that was the inspiration, added a different Liberty print, and made another...

Chain piecing. Squares are 1-1/2 inches cut, as are the prairie points (purry points). Need very careful ironing to avoid the fingertips... I plan to make a pattern...

Blocks made

More tomorrow, and I have another set to cut and make today in reds, oranges, and yellows

I'm also posting stuff on the Modern Art Quilters blog,  and the Modern Art Quilters Sew-Along FB page - see the link on the right or click on the links here (different images...)

Long day...

 ...had to be up really early to get a parking space in the same county as the Makers' Market at the Fisher Theatre n Bungay. 

Actually not a bad day, and all the stuff I made specially sold at least one piece, mostly more than one...

Stall wondrously untidy, sigh...

Been making Coptic-bound books, which are delightful. Sold
only the mid-priced ones, which is pretty odd...

Book of Jam

Lucky Cat (a small one, 4 x 4 inches)

Rusty Spirals

Spines like this...

Fun to make

New pages HERE to buy these, and covered notebooks, and Japanese stab-bound, and photo albums.. 

Make lovely presents...

Snow Time, Like The Present

Brrrr

From the Post Room window...

And plantishness

So glad to have a woodshed nicely full

Who knew that bean packets would burn blue?

 

Repairing

 The Repair Cafes have become a really important part of my life. Useful, sociable, educative,  and fun...

This was Halesworth on Saturday, a nice wee Frister Rossmann getting a legal plug and a bit of attention..

Photo: Kim Hoare

Machines like this are so much better than any modern white-plastic-wonder, and this one should last for many more years of trouser-bottoms, curtains, and little quilts...

Supermarket Car Parks...

 ...seem to have the Very

Best Bushes