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Monday, 16 February 2015

Sew and stitch

These flowers brighten up my kitchen window, 
such a stunning shade of pink
loads of buds in there, this was purchased the week before Christmas
 Yesterday morning I sorted all my fat quarters, 
I have been collecting for a while, I would like to do some patchwork, 
I have not purchased any for a purpose, I have just collected what I like.
 I love the printed fabric with leaves and flowers, I would like to embroider over some of the lines. I also have plain colours so I can have central squares, which I can put a design on. At this point I do not know what to make. A couple of new cushion covers for the sofa, or a nice tote shopping bag.
 I sat for a while late yesterday afternoon and stitched, I have to fill the tree, plus a few more snowflakes and one last cute bird, this will be finished soon. I will make into another small cushion.
I have joined another SAL, a very simple one, with a square each month, from a French site, I love the simple style. I check through my growing stash and did not have any of the correct colour fabric, and for once I wanted to use the suggested shade, so a small quick order is on it's way to me.
We had a very informative evening last night, we were located in a car park in Portsmouth looking across water to a main road into the city, with a boat wreck in the foreground. I managed to get a few good photo's, and loads of great tips. I am using my big camera more and always on Manual, plus it was not so cold.
It's very dull and grey here again, I have a bit of house work to do and then a walk down to the village, we are due rain later.
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6 comments:

  1. Jo16 February 2015 at 11:41

    Cyclamen are lovely plants for this time of year, so bright and cheery in the depths of winter. It sounds as though your photography is coming on a treat, your lessons must be well worth it. I'm still unsure about using my camera on manual settings, I keep having a go from time to time but most of my photos are taken on automatic.

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  2. Mylittlepieceofengland16 February 2015 at 15:08

    Cyclamen are so pretty, especially the miniature ones. Very dull and grey here, raining all day too xx

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  3. Linda16 February 2015 at 18:21

    Such pretty fabric Marlene. Skaters is looking awesome.

    Linda

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  4. Pam16 February 2015 at 19:11

    I enjoy my plants on the windowsills, if the day is gloomy I drop the blinds behind the plants and forget the weather. Youn have a lovely collection of Fat Quarters there, it made my fingers twitch to se them.

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  5. Barb17 February 2015 at 01:41

    Such pretty flowers. They give a good preview of Spring!

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  6. Julie17 February 2015 at 11:34

    Lovely collection of fabrics

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