A wonderful pick-up lunch, tea and cake, and show-and-tell, had by (almost) all...
Handwork Renews
While I was gallivanting in Bumble the Big Wagon, I took some embroidery to play with - very restful and takes up little space. The resulting piece will transform this rather uninspiring calico shopping bag, as soon as I find the rest of the pretty hand-dyed thread...
So nice to sew with a hand-dye - every stitch is a slightly different colour...
Detail of the lovely hand-printed indigo cloth I worked on, and the stitches
Not everything is Utterly Modern here
HB is quilting little 3D tablemats for inlaws' Christmas presents - nicely traditional colours!
HH
An Ugh and a Whooppee!
After weeks and weeks of head-banging I have finished my latest opus - "Be Afrayed" a booklet on faux-chenille and slashing techniques. I'll add this to the website tomorrow and put a link up here.. Note the piece of genuine faux-chenille on every cover.
And, given half-an-hour before my online Yin Yoga, I decided to defluff my big Juki... Ugh!
HH
Work In Progress
Making decisions about Kits and Patterns, taking some of the elderly-and-not-very-nice ones apart and recycling the contents; repacking; making new versions of patterns. Making a lot of tea and a nice lunch and a couple of very short dog-walks..
A productive day!
A Small Gallivant...
...to Sew and So's at Bungay, to drop off samples for the next term's classes which we are much looking forward to teaching there. The shop looks very nice and festive with lots of delicious new fabrics as well as the usual red/green/sparkly..
They close for Christmas on the 17th, so get in while you can
Then we had a nice coffee and mulled over the ins-and-outs of stallholding and new kit for same, then came home and contemplated new patterns and kits. Tomorrow, a bit of remaking, packing, and sprucing-up...
Home again, home...
Aitchbee's prize-winning New Perspectives is home from it's little tour of the Knitting and Stitching Shows. You can make one rather like this, click HERE for details
HH
Bit Cold To Sew...
...as the men came and stole my back door. I hope, when I get back in, they will have finished...
Trad Zoom tomorrow to make Kinchaku Bags, so I'm going to have an early night, having set everything up...
Sleep well!
When we first started working together...
...we taught a Sampler Quilt - it was great fun and we learned a lot about and from each other.. In the interests of encouraging the beginners amongst you, we will be making a free BOM (Block Of the Month) starting early next year. Not everything on here, but a really good starter set...
We will be putting the blocks online at the Modern Art Quilters website HERE, of course...
HH
Not Everything is Totally Modern
Dresden plate
And 4-way Tigers
Sample blocks for a Treadleon BOM (old sewing machine friendly..) to be announced after Christmas
Out all day...
...at the Repair Cafe. Came back for tea with HB and jollity like so (I did try to video this, but I haven't found out how, watch this space...)
Here's the pattern - make one for yourself?
and my Cheerful Goth version
December Rains...
...and we stay indoors and sew. Pretty much like the rest of the year, really.. HB is making Christmas presents for assorted family members (I won't show these yet) and I've been kite-making after quite a long break - well, there were lots cut out in the boxes and the big roll of fibreglass rods keeps on biting me in the ear when I go up into the attic...
Mini tsugaru with tails, line, and bag, just about to go online...
HH
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