Daily Drivel

Finished something!

I bought most of the fabric for this quilt back in October 2010 in a nice little shop in Axminster (I'm not sure if it is still there - they don't have a website). I decided I needed more fabric if I was going to make a reasonable sized quilt so I bought some more bits at a local shop. The squares are 8" - I quilted them individually before joining them together. The joining was very time consuming but I quite like the method. Next time I'll make bigger squares! I washed it at 30C on a cotton cycle and used 6 colour catcher sheets which all came out quite pink, so it was well worth using them! Really pleased with how it's turned out. Next I want to make a double bed sized quilt. Eeek!

The other side:

An apple a day...

Well, supposedly an apple a day keeps the Dr away. I've spent all day drawing one today and I still feel poorly :-( Guess you're meant to eat them ;-)

I've had a nasty cold for about a week now and I really have had enough of it but I think it's going to take a few more days to get rid of it. Seem to have a horrid cough now and my head is fuzzy too. Yuck!

I've decided to take part in 'Art Every Day Month' so, in between coughing, I really have spent almost all day drawing an apple using coloured pencils. Sorry - no photo yet because it's not quite finished and I'm not happy with how I've done the shadow so I want to do a bit more work on it tomorrow (probably going to totally mess it up but nevermind!). Yesterday we popped into Hobbycraft on our way to do our food shopping and I treated myself to a book, 'Ultimate Colored Pencil Guide' by Gary Greene. You can see some of his work here. Pretty amazing stuff. Not quite sure I'll ever have the patience, nevermind the skill, to do work like that. I'm going to try and work through some of the techniques demonstrated in the book and see if I can get the hang of using my coloured pencils!

I did a bit of sewing this morning too and have finished sewing together my quilt squares into rows. Still quite a lot of work to do as I have to hand-sew all the joining strips down on the front, then sew the rows together and then do the binding.

Finished my quilt!

I finished this a week or so ago. It's not particularly big (about 42" square) as it's my first quilt and I was quite worried I might not finish it if I tried to make a massive one! I decided to do the quilting in straight lines,black thread on black, cream on cream, using my walking foot and I'm really pleased with how it's turned out. It was difficult keeping the quilting accurate at the points of each square and I did miss a few times but I don't think it is too bad! Can't wait to start on another one as I have some lovely jelly rolls to try out (click on photo for full image)