Extremely late 30's

I bought a new present for the sewing room today.

It means I will be able to sew later than 6pm.

It means my hand sewing should improve

It means I won't confuse blue and green

it means I won't have to go outside for accurate colour matching.....

It means I am getting old.

project Dog

Tuesday night - 4 degrees. Old smelly dog with very short hair.

One felted jumper from felted jumper stash and four strips of velcro + 10 mins sewing

= one very deconstructed dog coat.

warm dog

I am the Martha Stewart of stinky dog-land

Big fat nothin'

Elephants still naked?

yep!

Dollies still disjointed in plastic bags?

yep.

disembodied softie heads still impaled on knitting needles ?

yep.

That's right - nothing to see here folks, move along - nothing to see.

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(Just quietly cracking myself up over here)

A day at the Office....

When I was a kid, I wished I was a zoo-keeper.

Yesterday I went on an excursion with work and a part of me wondered (ever so briefly) if I had another career change in me at this grand old age.

I don't !

Funnily enough today when we went through the photos, I had about 120 of animals and one flower. Someone else seemed to have hundreds of flowers with the occasionally animal leg in the way !

The Bastard Quilt

With some gentle prodding from blogland I was determined to get The Bastard Quilt finished while I was at sewjourn.

The potted history goes something like this....

Once upon a time I decided to make a quilt. I decided that I would just "wing" the pattern, because I knew kind of what I wanted it to look like in my mind. I figured that, since it was to be my first quilt I would not be keen to pay to have it quilted, so I decided to make three quilt as you go sections and then join them.

I blame Mr Google and Mr You tube for making it all look so easy - it is their fault.

Over time , the quilt got a few airings on the blog but I gradually fell out of love with it. The first mention seems to be January 08 but I think I started it before then.

So, even though I still love the idea of this quilt and I adore the green and white idea, whenever I look at it, all I see is all the bits I fudged. I see where the batting moved away inside when I joined the sections. I see the dodgy machine quilting, I see the crookedness and the fact that even though the sections worked well perhaps it doesn't work so well as a whole.

And yes I know it is my first ever quilt that I have done all by myself , and that I started it quite a while ago and my sewing has (hopefully) improved since then, I know all the things I would say to someone else who doesn't love something they made.

but I have never been good at listening to my own advice - the jury is still out.