Saturday update

So here's how far I got on Saturday - apologies for the poor staging of the pictures - but it's absolutely freezing outside (literally), and I've just got in from work - I thought I'd get these uploaded and worry about picture composition later.....

Like when it warms up.

If it ever does.

As you can see, I've done 5 of the 6 triangles - just one to go.

and they can be arranged in a number of different ways, depending on how you feel:

I had hoped to get in tonight and start to quilt these up, so that they would be done for Christmas - but seriously - it's so cold right now that I think the next place for me is bed, tucked up with a cup of tea and a good book.

I'm out late twice a week at my Spanish class, and Mr Z&Z comes to meet me afterwards, to cadge a lift home, so by the time we open the front door, the house has been sitting cold and neglected for over 14 hours. And that's when you notice the cold.

We had a plumber around yesterday to talk through putting in radiators / upgrading what we have. He gave us a reasonable price, said it would be a straightforward job - and then said that it would be February at the earliest!!

Mr Z&Z and I really do need to start planning ahead.

Ferreting around

Where did last week go?? One minute it was Monday, all stretched out before me - and now it's Sunday morning, getting ready for Monday again??

I spent yesterday at a quilting workshop, but no pictures to show yet (hopefully, if I can get the chores out of the way this morning, I can get on with it this afternoon). Unusually, you have to pretty much make all the blocks before you can evern start to piece together (yes, I know that's probably what you're supposed to do anyway, but I like to get some of it together as soon as I can, as I find that it then encourages me to keep going with it).

So instead, let me show you what I did a couple of weeks ago. It's not quite finished - the plan had been to do it on Wednesday night this week, but the time just seems to flutter away. On the Sunday it was the Quilters Guild Regional Day - I love these days - I love talking to all sorts of people to whom you'd probably not usually speak, and seeing just what others are making. (I also picked up some real bargains at the bring and buy table - more on that later as well).

Ferret gave a talk in the afternoon. I've been a massive fan of Ferret for a couple of years now - I like the way in which she challenges what we'd expected to see in quilting, and I enjoy reading her blog.

And I was lucky enough to get a place on her workshop on the Sunday - and by the end of the day, this is what I'd created:

I found this incredibly hard at first - the idea of throwing neat piecing out of the window was very hard to get my head around, but once I got going, I really enjoyed it, which is one of the reasons that I want to get this finished and up on display in my house. It still needs to be quilted, and a border put on it.

This is what others ended up with:


Pretty impressive rose, huh??

I also have plans for a number of other projects along the same lines...