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

Just when I decide...

 ....to post more often, Blogger shuts me out for two days... Sigh...

Someone stole my hedge, and gave the landscape back...

Roadkill - origami

And my new Fancy Pan...

Shimmering...

Working on a pattern for this little cot quilt, in my Charm School series (quilts made from 5-inch pre-cut squares) - it's called "Shimmer" and this is the third sample

Detail

And yesterday's Literacy Bumble...

Really Need...

 ...to do more here, must try harder...

Her'e the latest Gothy Baby - a Playmat for a change, or a changing mat for play?

Free to a suitably good home, please feel free to request...

Assortedments

 Been busy, if not very productive, too hot...

Bug City new Goth Baby ready to go. This quilt has now gone to a good home...

Lots of black-and-golds plus all sorts of spooky prints

Bwahahaha!

Little pleasures - Mega-berry...

Roadkill - poster much run over

Modern literacy at the Post Office...

Roadkill - origami

More Little Pleasures

 Been working too hard, but these help...

Trimmings

Pink!

Mochi with garden fruit

Cheery cherries

Charming cats 

More charming cats (that is, made from 5 inch charm squares)

And raspberry and lemon Bundt cake, GF and utterly delicious...

Little Pleasures of Life

 A phrase John and I used frequently, and a new series, with the idea of finding a little more delight in a sometimes rather tiresome daily round

I tipped the barrow over so it would not fill with rain. Ants, ever-resourceful, made use of the cover

While cutting the grass (and, incidentally, recovering my errant keys, this lovely feather, about 2 inches long, was given

And, fresh from the garden, raspberries and strawberries for my pudding

Woodpecker, peckish

And another small project finished, quilted, bound, and tbh, better than I thought I could do...

Tin for Ten

10 inches square, horrid sparkly fabric and light blue supplied by the Modern Group, all improv outer blocks in Oakshott

Another job just about done...

 

Little, and Large(r)

Tall Trees - Silk miniature for FOQ

Detail...

Wee kittens - scissors for scale... All free-cut and improv-pieced

And the top is assembled for my "Trad Jazz" new pattern, also going to FOQ...

 

Rain, Food Festival, and Gothy Bunts

 Not a nice day, steady down-the-neck rain all morning. I went to the Food Festival nevertheless, and bought blue food

Passion Fruit and Mango marshmallow bar...

This one was dark chocolate wih three layers of assorted fillings inside, and was a "taster"

Oh, yes...

Then there's this wonderful floofiness of elderflower, growing out of a derelict wall

And I finally sewed this together, it has been languishing awhile. Ready for layering

Gothy Bunts..

Detail - fabrics donated by my late great friend Kate, plus lots of dark Oakshott offcuts..