February at Stourhead ,
Snowdrops time! These little beauties are everywhere right now,
a promise of spring.
And Butterfly's Ball progress:
first of the applique borders finished!
Saturday, 4 February 2023
Friday
My Friday was quite busy;
I spent the afternoon finishing Blooming Springtime quilt, stitching the binding on.
I started this quilt in February'22, so it took exactly a year to make.
I quilted it by hand, using my usual shadow quilting
with pearl cotton and a large stitch (because I am an impatient quilter!)
My first finish this year!
I am so glad this is done; when I get near the end of a project,
I am itching to concentrate on the next one!
Now of course it is the Butterfly's Ball -
so I spent my evening joining the others at Cheryll's for FNwF,
working on the first applique border.
This is where the fun begins!
Not Now!
Look at her party shoes, and
Oh, what lovely eyes!
Her husband married her because he thought her finest feature was their lustre and their size."
Thank you, Cheryll, for getting us organized again!
Saturday, 28 January 2023
it is summer in my garden
or - I should say - in my imaginary garden!
This fabric garden has been getting ready for the butterfly ball, flowers slowly growing .
It is a joy to play with these pretty fabrics in the middle of cold January.
Flowers added in the corners,
and two more borders, a leaf one
and the squares on the point border. I chose very plain fabric for the background here
because I love this Liberty fabric so much and the plain background shows it off so well.
It is now ready for what I think is the main attraction of this quilt - the applique border.
This will be the part I will enjoy most!
Four borders of pure joy of applique!
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"Up comes the Sun, and the very long shadows grow shorter; his light is like amber;
the glow, where grey mists have melted away from the meadows, starts dewdrops all sparkling like jewels below;
creatures that fly, or that creep, hop, or run, now awake all at once at a loud trumpet-call to tell them this greatest of days has begun - the day of the Feast and the Butterfly Ball!"
Thursday, 12 January 2023
Comment Notification Emails
My dear friends,
just to let you know that the notification emails have stopped working on my blog and
I am only just finding out that I have been missing your lovely comments.
It looks like this happened sometimes in December, so thank you to those who commented since!
I will now have to find out how to fix it and check my blog more often!
I have contacted Blogger for help.
Monday, 9 January 2023
Although some 10 days too late - I wish you all Happy New Year!
As always, I hope it will turn out to be a good one! (One has to hope!)
It has been a very slow new year start for me,
most of our family managed to get the horrid cold/flu which was circulating here before and over Christmas, so I have been making most of the quiet time after Christmas to recover.
I am feeling very tired, which is not surprising,
but trying to get back to some kind of normality.
There is nothing better to lift spirits than to start a new project.
Yes, New Year = new quilt!
The Butterfly's Ball by Susan Smith,
"This is the day! Oh, goody! The Ball!
Aren't you madly excited? Get up and get ready!
Lets be on our way!"
Gloomy days are not good for taking photographs, but you get the idea;
this is the central panel.
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