More silky things

How to free-motion on a tiny scale, and some of the resulting brooches (All £10, and for sale..)
(ETA cream one has gone, but I can make more...)

Interpolated stars for a wee purse

Week of Silk

As those of you who read this blog will know, I tend to have occasional "weeks of" and this week I am concentrating on silk in all it's shimmery glory. Unusually, I have invited people to join me, but this has been of mixed utility.. Today was pretty good, however
So, so far, I have made some purses
of which this is a small selection
And some truly tiny blocks

..some of which I have made into a little quilt (approximately 8 inches square) - the blocks are 3 inches before joining and are foundation-pieced on calico

and a degree of mess, of course

Also some book covers, not yet finished, and sundry oddments

And come to a realisation that I may not live long enough to use all this silk at this rate of titchiness

This morning in Beccles...

Local Herrings

And ingenious repairs...
Not captured, but the other side of the bumper was held on with half a seatbelt...


and Squids

Nice feature

From Michael Oakshott, who has put up my Interpolations quilts and a little piece about them - click on the link to read
and here's the latest one..
In-Purple-Ation

OCP for December

Intellectuals need their sleep

Accidental faces - Tappity Tap

Cheerful.. By gum, it's cold today!

Class Of Purses

Kinchaku bags and Curved Purses at Quilters Haven on Saturday. Hey! three links in one sentence...
First two are make-your-own tutorials...

Roadkill - Bag and Leaves

In the supermarket car park..

Prizes

For Interpolations 6 (in the wrong category, but hey) Runner-up Small Wallhanging

and Highly Commended for my Enchanted Forest..
Rosettes, sadly no goody-bags, but also hey!

West Country Quilt Show with the Modern Quilt Group

 So far, so good.. The Challenge Quilts look fantastic, and so many different  takes on a simple idea (the Equilateral Triangle and its offspring, the Diamond and the Hexagon.)
 Heather, Lucy Poloniecka and I had a deal of fun sorting these into groups of three... Kate Percival, our Exhibitions Officer, joins us tomorrow

 ..and hanging them with the help of two stalwart standers-on-ladders-with-screwdrivers...

 We have more quilts than walls, of course, even though we seem to have an awful lot of wall

 Heather arranges her table - note the Old Black Singer - we have brought two, so no fighting

 Nearly there...

 Tired

I wish my camera did Panoramic - this is not all of it

More tomorrow, and please do come
We're at the University of Western England, Bristol till Saturday evening...
Details here

Peeling

I Went to Duxford Quilt Show...

 ...and I bought A Rainbow of Moderns

 Some Red White and Blues

 Skullingtons (it is Hallowe'en today)

and this, to overdye and make a new skirt, I think

Time for a Little Something

 Camera Plays

 Reminding me of pumpkins

 Cat, on the other hand, sleeps the sleep of the just in the winter greenhouse

 Meanwhile, some very small leaves fall, and stick

 Some more lonely than others

Some seem to need company...
Happy Autumn!

Roadkill for October (and September...)

 Petals fall

 Buses swish

and shadows play..
Still sunny..

And some more...

 Roofline, Dundee

 Penguins, Dundee

 Lacy Hat, Dundee

 Fountain, Clevedon. Grade 2 listed!

 Fireplace in the Hotel-with-no-towels, Cinderford

 Dundee cathedral door - sadly, the building was closed, as God was not in

 On the other hand, Desperate Dan was full of cow pie

and this beautiful chair was in Cinderford