Flotsam and the Sailor

This week I’ve been working on 5” blocks each composed of 50, 1” triangles. I added 3 blocks this week, that’s 150 little triangles - I may have lost the plot!

There’s a box of 1” triangles sitting on the side in the kitchen and they get pieced together, one light, one dark, as and when I get a couple of minutes. Well, I decided to put some together…

Spot on!

I’ve been a bit quiet lately pattern testing and getting this centre piece done. I was trying to piece it on the machine but I wasn’t happy with the accuracy, there is only so much trimming and squaring up that you can do before it looks completely wrong! This is pieced by hand.

Thanks, I’ve got one, I’ve also got even feed on my machine. I use leaders and enders but I’m never very satisfied with the results.

I have a love/hate relationship with sewing machines. Today I practiced accurate quarter inch seams on my machine as I have some very small pieces to sew together for the centre of a much larger project. All is well so far.

Thank you.

Thank you

Thank you so much. I think of them as art especially when the quilting is added to give it a third dimension. I absolutely loved making this quilt using old shirts and household linens.

If it gets really cold I’ll just put an extra quilt on the bed.

Thank you

Thank you. I make quilts all year round.

Thank you.

It must be autumn, he asked me to put a quilt on the bed.

Yes, marked very lightly in pencil. It washes away after being soaked in tepid water overnight.

The trellis is complete, now to quilt the infills.

Peaceful stitching in the quiet of the day.

You don’t have to mark it all at once, draw the main framework of the design and fill in the details of each area as you go.

Thank you.

Thank you, years of practice and I still haven’t got it right.

I think humans will always outshine AI. For me, in the artisan world, AI is just a means of stealing our creativity and convincing the gullible that these fake images and instructions are real.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

It’s a quilting sort of day today, just quiet, peaceful stitching.

Enjoy your day.

It’s a quilting sort of day today, just quiet, peaceful stitching.

Enjoy your day.

Early morning stitching in the cool of the day.

As you may have discovered, I don’t like waste so when I’ve finished a project I use up the leftovers. Early this morning, in the cool of the day, I moved some boxes and came across this lot. I am not enamoured with Etsy, so, over the weekend I intend to add items to my new Folksy shop, Toadflax.

I found a half started project whilst tidying up a cupboard. I think I will continue with it, just squares to make little 4 patch blocks.

My insectivorous plants are loving the sunshine.

I damaged my right hand so I can’t sew or knit but I can crochet. I also broke my glasses so tiny stitches are out of the question. The thought of sitting doing nothing… arrgh!