Romany Quilting

 I've been working away on my yellow string baby quilt.  The blocks started like this, a bag of yellow strings of various widths sewn onto a backing of tracing vilene. The blocks always look much more presentable when they are trimmed.

 This week Mary was the Sew Wot hostess, and we were all there with the exception of Helen who is enjoying a holiday in UK, how exciting!  Mary started off the show and tell with her recently completed knitting, a pair of socks and fingerless gloves.

 The teddy cushion panels have finally received the last of their big stitch quilting.  Not at all difficult, but this project got put aside more than once while I worked on other things. I do find hand quilting nice and relaxing, especially doing big stitch quilting. These pretty cushion panels came from the Sew Wots who often bring along items...

 I had a rummage through my "bag of bag bits" to see what I had tucked away in purple, I was sure there were a couple of suitable pieces of fabric just waiting to be found.  What's this, two orphan blocks in shades of purple, a small piece of alien fabric and a stripey floral. So I gathered toning fabric for the backs plus some lining fabric and st...

It was time for Gemma's trip to the vet for her annual vaccination.  She has been very healthy all her life so this is the only time so goes for a visit.  I had to be a bit sneaky in the morning. Gemma has her usual routine, get up, have breakfast, then a morning snooze. I didn't want her getting in to her hidey hole in the cat tower since we were...