As usual, I have been busy, but not blogging. Mostly, I have been running classes at the community house and trying to look after my DH who is in a lot of pain and finding it hard to be idle.
I did, however find some time to make a few little motifs using soluble interfacing and free motion.
The butterfly is a bit tatty because I only went over it once, and I wasn't wearing my eye glasses!, I used a metallic thread in the top and bottom, so that they would look the same on both sides, but overall I am happy with the effect. The gold thread is from a large cone which I picked up at the recycle depot, but it sews really well and I love it. A little bit of bling goes a long way!
I have also been working on my journal quilts. I have been making journal quilts from random drawings and sketches. Obviously, the drawing is quick - it takes a little longer to interpret them in thread, but it also gives me something to work on when the muse is not cooperating.
Some I like, some I don't, but it's just some playing, really.
I had my old
flag book (or
here) with some of my old journal quilts at the gallery on the weekend, and decided to make a new book to hold all of them.
It is quite a bit larger than my old book and I have made the accordions quite wide, so I have room to write what each quilt is about.
