Romany Quilting

There has been a bit of slow stitching going on, working on a couple of small Christmas Stockings.  These came to me in a package sent by Jo (ButterZ) from Australia a few months ago.  The package included about a dozen small felt stockings, cut out with the decorations fused, waiting to be stitched together. Jo told me she had them for 10 years...

 It's black and neutral sewing month, or catching up with projects,  for Rainbow Scrap Challenge, and I'm delighted that I finally found the missing bag containing everything I need for my final selvedge double handed oven mitts. I stitched a whole lot of these last year, using up all my selvedges in the recommended colours most months, except fo...

 I was really keen to go and see the movie "The Heart of the Beast" and my daughter Nicky said she was interested too.  She drove down to Levin, collected me from home, we had time for a quick lunch at the movie complex, with the film starting at 1.00pm. This was the first time I had seen a Brad Pitt movie, but after seeing the shorts on TV, deci...

It was time to turn the clocks forward last weekend for daylight saving.  Luckily the lap top, tablet and cell phone are clever enough to do it all by themselves.  That left the bedside clock, my watch, and the wall clock in the kitchen for me to deal with. The clock in the car doesn't get done, much too hard for me, and I decided not to change ...

Some time ago, when I had my wardrobe malfunction, I came across a bag containing two long forgotten projects, neutral strings and chickens, and decided that I would deal with these as soon as I could.  The string blocks have been stitched into a quilt and donated, and now it's time to work on  those chickens.