works in progress (and a new flimsy)

My latest post, showing my works in progress (both knitting and quilting) as well as a finished flimsy, can be read on my new blog, Never Too Hot To Stitch

Here is a taste of what you will see there:


I look forward to you visiting my new site. Please add my new blog to your reader.

May your stitches bring you much joy.
Lynne

now he is six

 

My latest post, featuring this beautiful boy on his birthday, can be found at Never Too Hot To Stitch.

I look forward to your visiting my new blog site. While you're  there, would you please change my blog address in your reader. Thanks

May your stitches bring you much joy.
Lynne

latest post

My latest post, re mum's blankets, published Saturday February 6 (Australian Eastern Daylight time) can be found over at my new blog: never2hot2stitch.wordpress.com

moved to a new home

I've had too much hassle trying to post on Blogger and despite having my blog at this address for nine years, I have moved to a new site:

never2hot2stitch.wordpress.com/

The site there is still under construction but please follow me to my new address.

See you over there.
Lynne

EQ7 beginners' class

Not a lot of sewing has been going in in my sewing room in the past week. WM and I were away last weekend with four other couples from church. We spent Saturday having some "couple time" and ate our evening meals (Friday and Saturday) with the other couples. It was wonderful to have time together, knowing there would be no demands made on us all day!

Otherwise, most of the time spent in my sewing room has been in either practising keyboard (I'm being groomed to accompany the worship at prayer meetings) or cutting up yet more piles of scraps. There are no photos, I think you've seen enough photos of cut scraps for a while!

Today I attended a five hour beginner's class in the use of EQ7 (Electric Quilt). I had a wonderful time, learning the basics of how the program works and a little of what can be done with it.

At the end of the day, the teacher challenged us to each work from a different photo of a tiled floor and create a quilt.

I don't have the original photo to show you but here are my creations as they were modified.

The original photo was "on point" and was quite complicated. My original attempt makes for something interesting but not at all like the original.The colours are a bit too wishy-washy for my taste.

The second image is much more accurate as to the pattern of the tiles with my modification of the colours. This quilt, in EQ7 as it stands, would be 110" square -- way too big for any quilt I intend to make in the near future! The octagons should be more prominent than they are in this layout!

This third quilt is getting closer to something I like, but still using variations of the original colours. This would be a mini quilt; it's only 30" square!

Finally, at home after dinner,  I came up with something I like and could use. I've changed the quilt to a size within the limits of our charity quilts (54" x 66") and changed the colours to something I think is much more appealing.

As I said, I loved the class and look forward to our "advanced" class in a few months time.

What have you been up to this week?