Its been a chilly weekend here, and today its blowing
a gale with the odd shower of rain, but that means its
perfect sewing weather!
I became sidetracked on Saturday, sidetracked away from
Friends for Christmas.
Sidetracked by English Paper Piecing.
When the girlies and I came to visit dh here last year
for 10 days I forgot to bring any sewing
so dh took us on a drive to visit Mandini Needlecraft
at Tura Beach, where I found the EPP papers and pattern
for Sue Daley's, Antique Sampler Quilt,
picture from here
so I bought it and some japanese indigo fabrics and
happily stitched my days away while we were
here, of course when we returned home to Tasmania
life got in the way and it was tucked away for another day
I pulled it out on the weekend, stitched a few of the paper pieces
together, prepared some backgrounds and here is where I am up to
with the EPP side of it
The stitched on to the background blocks
the to be stitched onto the background blocks
and the needing backgrounds to be made
and in my little box are 3 blocks to be basted and stitched together.
I also have signed up for a new block of the month
from here
and here's what I will be making
love love love it, so I need to get my thimble on and get the
last of the leaves and hooves stitched onto Friends for Christmas,
get the last of the EPP blocks stitched and onto their
backgrounds and make a start on all the needleturn
blocks, so I can be ready to start stitching
Vintage Rouge as soon as block 1 arrives
no pressure at all :)
