New phone

I can now blog using my phone. I'm not really that excited - honestly

Cabbages and Sprouts

Well the new mobile phone has finally decided to communicate with me but let's say that I'm a girl who likes to press buttons!!!

On a creative front I have finished the embellished sample above. When I put a lot of hand stitch onto pieces it some how feels like going back to my routes as I did lots of embroidery first before becoming a quilter. I hand dyed buttons and the three large do-nut shapes came from a charity shop belt which I also hand dyed. There are beads from broken necklaces, washers of varying sizes and some green net from a shower wash thing. I also used a broken zip. Here is more detail -

I used a hand dyed cotton base which was crinkled first to create more texture. I'll put my hand up though and admit that the crinkle fabric was for an Expedition Quilt Art Challenge, all embellishments for my Diploma

Contact Me

I think I posted that my mobile phone stopped working last week. My new one arrived today and I thought all my phone numbers would be on my sim card. Once the sim card was in the new phone I realised that I have lost all the numbers. The old phone is heading off to Nokia as it is still under warrenty.

So, if you know me please can you text me to give me you home/work/mobile numbers. My mobile number has not changed.

This and that

I haven't done much blogging over the past two weeks but lots of creative sewing for my C&G diploma has been done. I am now working with designs taken from sprout stalks growing in the fields around my house. Life has not been very good this week, culminating in my mobile phone stopping working. Of course this had to happen when DS2 was late home from school, and DH had a piano lesson! Anyway after a long phone call to T-mobile an upgrade was agreed with lots of extra goodies including unlimited Internet access for the same price. I must say that T-mobile were really helpful, I know they probably need the business but they answered the phone straight away, no waiting and were very polite and helpful. The new phone will be delivery on Tuesday and then I can play. I hope though that the diary entries are saved onto my sim card as I know I have two workshops booked for 2011 that I had not transferred to my diary.

Yesterday I taught a Shibori class to an enthusiastic, wonderful group of ladies. I did take my camera along but often forget to take photos. There is a lot of hand stitching in this class and they all rose to the challenge. One lady had already done this class with me and she came with a wholecloth design on some cotton fabric. She spent the day sewing this but wasn't quite ready to start pulling up.

I always get a sense of concern at the end of this class as the fabric goes home in dye and the final result is out of my hands. I have asked for photos to be sent to me so I will post when I get some.

When life gets you down..

Drink coffee (decaffeinated, skinny latte) and read inspirational magazines.
Take photos of sprouts growing in a field.

And make chocolate cheesecake.
P.S Happy Valentines Day

Blog Award

Thank you Indigo Blue for giving me this sunshine award. It's my first blog award so I'm really pleased to have this colourful one to cheer me up.

I have the honour to pass this on so I have the pleasure of nominating -

Julie at Mixedmedia
Tina at Sweetypie50
Trudi at Quiltprolifically
Mark at A Smallholder's Diary

I hope you all enjoy it and pass on this little ray of sunshine.

Completed Miniature Quilt

Well, finally I have totally completed the miniature quilt for my C&G diploma including paperwork. It's taken a while with lots of understanding from my wonderful tutor, but here it is complete with hanging system and a few pages from my sketch book.

I rarely work in miniature and probably won't again (never say never though!) The extra good news is that I have also passed onto my next module which is all full of things I enjoy such as various different types of applique, tessellation, embellishments and mixed media. I will share progress with you.