Still quilting............

I have been plugging away on the quilt in dribs and drabs.

I have pieced two of the three sections and am quilting them very simply.

I am just adding lines around the green and a few random rectangles. The starting and ending and hiding all the threads is what is taking me forever. Half a minute to quilt around a shape and then 5 minutes of knot tying and needle threading.

I have decided to quilt and join these two pieces before I start to piece the last third, simply because it takes ages and drives me slightly batty.


I was disappointed to find out today that the French word for Tampon is......................Tampon. Not even the French can make it sound attractive!

Crafting (not quite) disaster

Old purse

(old, grungy and way too small for all the crap I keep in there).

I tend to tuck all my receipts into my "craft Purse" and this one just isn't big enough - It must be 3 years old or more, so todayI decided to make the new purse.

A bit of selvedge, some plastic and fabric and voila!!! (or not)

OK , So I can live with the fact that it looks a bit like a toiletry bag - but I hate the whole zipper bit and I am not happy with the artfully angled top corners (they are not artful at all, all those layers of plastic mean that is as far as I can turn the corners out).

Blah !

Mind you - the Teflon foot made that top stitching a breeze.