Just in case. . . . .

you think I'm just sitting around looking cute, I did want to report that I'm busy with 3 projects, in addition to completing the last 3 ft. of my Saskia quilt binding (see last blog post).  Watching a 'movie' is a great way to make time for sitting and working on quilting projects.  We bought the boxed set of Foyle's War (Acorn Media - is that BBC?  ITV?  I don't know) so I'm thoroughly enjoying Detective Chief Inspector Foyle as he sorts out all variety of nefarious activity, with a World War II backdrop.

Dieuwke gave me a "Tree of Life" panel.  As I saw in den Haan and Wagenmakers, I am outlining each of the elements and will then cross hatch quilt it.  All by hand, Caroline and Dieuwke.  You would be proud of me.  I'm using a cream colored silk thread, so that is a bit difficult to see in this picture - not to mention hard to quilt with.  But I'm happy so far.

 I'm sewing together the wedge pieces of the Christmas tree skirt for my son and DIL - and of course, those perfectly lovely girls.  Hope they'll like it under the tree.

While visiting the quilting Bee at Yvonne's, I saw a piece that one of the members was working on.  She was making a wall hanging that was (presumably paper pieced) of a cupboard (kast) filled with dishes and jugs and cups and a teapot and a coffee pot.  I LOVED it!  And, it just happened that Caro gave me some left-over scraps from some of her historical fabrics, so I found a pattern by Maaike Bakker and started working on it.  I find it challenging - as it is not intuitive, always, but so far, so good.  I like it.

So between planning menus, shopping, haircuts, laundry, ironing, and generally getting ready to be away, I'm keeping the little machine humming.  The weather man says a couple of days of grey and rain and then sun, sun, sun.  Yeah!!!