Bring on 2017... new adventures, new challenges - We saw the new year in with a couple of friends, fizzy wine, tunes, laser disco lights and aliens stuck to the ceiling - yep one of those nights! New years day brought a slower day watching Hitchcock films and Sherlock and finishing up Christmas chocolate and today a long walk by the sea, which was quite wild with enormous waves breaking right out to sea. I was disappointed to see Amble pier had been set on fire - hardly a Brighton Pier experience but a shame to see that some was either daft enough or wanton enough to cause such sorry damage! I hope the culprits are brought to justice.
The festive season is over, the tree is down and cards packed away - and life is returning to normal. I've got some college work to catch up on we start back this week and this module is to hand in in a couple of weeks and I'm not quite sure where is going. I've not quite got to grips with it, something just hasn't gelled from the very beginning and usually it comes right eventually but its taking a bit long to drop into place this time so maybe this is the one that wont really work.... I guess that happens from time to time.
I might have used too much of my creative juice up to make my daughter a quilt for Christmas. A further attempt at using up some of my scrap fabric and fat quarters. I had made a wee quilt for the baby and a slightly bigger one for the big sister so it seemed only fair to make something double sized to grace my best girls bed. Now everyone has got one!
Its a simple random machine stitched patchwork using variations of red and pink fabrics with blue and red applique and some detailed beading (not very visible). It is backed with wtth a lightweight polyester wadding and plain red cotton. At about 5 feet square its perfect for a double bed. Some of the fabrics are memory fabrics, jimjams from when my daughter was 7, some of her baby clothes, some recycled bedding, and even some material used to make her own children clothes. I tried to keep it all cotton fabrics but there is a little bit of polyester cotton in there. I think it was well received.... it was quite a quick process at least compared with hand piecing but still very effective and colourful.
But now back to try and make some sense of the ill fated screen prints...
The festive season is over, the tree is down and cards packed away - and life is returning to normal. I've got some college work to catch up on we start back this week and this module is to hand in in a couple of weeks and I'm not quite sure where is going. I've not quite got to grips with it, something just hasn't gelled from the very beginning and usually it comes right eventually but its taking a bit long to drop into place this time so maybe this is the one that wont really work.... I guess that happens from time to time.
I might have used too much of my creative juice up to make my daughter a quilt for Christmas. A further attempt at using up some of my scrap fabric and fat quarters. I had made a wee quilt for the baby and a slightly bigger one for the big sister so it seemed only fair to make something double sized to grace my best girls bed. Now everyone has got one!
Its a simple random machine stitched patchwork using variations of red and pink fabrics with blue and red applique and some detailed beading (not very visible). It is backed with wtth a lightweight polyester wadding and plain red cotton. At about 5 feet square its perfect for a double bed. Some of the fabrics are memory fabrics, jimjams from when my daughter was 7, some of her baby clothes, some recycled bedding, and even some material used to make her own children clothes. I tried to keep it all cotton fabrics but there is a little bit of polyester cotton in there. I think it was well received.... it was quite a quick process at least compared with hand piecing but still very effective and colourful.
But now back to try and make some sense of the ill fated screen prints...
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