The whole piece quilt is rather lovely even if I do say so myself! I have a plan for it, but then I had more ideas of what to do with it . . . so I started another one! This one doesn't have any specific negative space, and it has more hand stitching than is planned for the bigger piece, and I just used the machine running stitch. More hand stitching is on the cards
It was my birthday this week and Plum and Avril have blogged about Chihuly at Kew Gardens. It's not that far from us so we booked tickets and went for the afternoon. I thought we would see them lit up, but we went on Wednesday and the "Chihuly Nights" session are Thursday, Friday and Saturday :-( We had a good time though, although I declined the opportunity to buy a small bowl for £6000!!!!
My favourites though are the pagoda I remember from going there as a child and the dragons on every corner of every roof
and the wrought iron spiral staircases - I cant help feeling my life would be complete if I had the space for one of these!!!
This week end I did a bit more hand sewing on the second whole cloth piece
and found a purpose for the amazing folder Plum sent me for my birthday
(My friend Sharon gave me a journaling bible for my birthday and a guide book . . .and persuaded another friend of ours to get me some journaling pens . . . and they all fit perfectly in the folder - thank you Plum (and Sharon and Alison!) no comments on lack of artistic talent thank you!!!!
I started this blog for me - it expanded to show BFF Jackie what I was doing - and a few others have invited themselves too - everybody welcome! Mostly about patchwork, with random comments about embroidery, family and life in general, come on in, put your feet up, and I'll put the [virtual] kettle on.
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