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..

If there's shelf, or a box, or a pile of firewood in heaven...

Then Humbug will be purring there

Rest in peace little one

 

Stockroom revamp, part one

Four sets of these delightful drawers, to ease my poor back

Abi will help on Saturday, I suspect a whirlwind will pass through...

 

Six of one, and one of many

Little Foundation Paper Pieced versions of the Jen Kingwell Wensleydale blocks, making almost no impression on the scrap basket. I'm sooooo slow with one hand not quite working. Improving slowly...

And a possible first block for the quilt I'm making as a pair with HB, this has a title (Ten Thousand Things) but, so far, not much progress apart from a lot of picking-of-fabric (one of the best bits..)