Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012
Today I’m having one of those days when I have no energy whatsoever and a zillion things that I need to do and those that I do get round to aren’t turning out the way they should at all! I really want to finish my bearpaws, but with 25 of 32 blocks done I swear […]
One of those days when I should maybe have stayed in bed….
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Sunday, September 30th, 2012
I can’t believe that this quarter is already over. I don’t feel like I’ve been super-productive , but when I put this mosaic together I saw that I’d probably achieved more than I thought….and I haven’t included all the ballet costumes and I think there’s one bee block missing because I couldn’t track down the […]
This quarter….
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Saturday, September 29th, 2012
Yes, I’m still making bear paws….and will be for a while. 21 done and 11 to go, so I guess I’m two-thirds of the way there, which doesn’t seem too bad. The process is rather calming as there aren’t an awful lot of points that have to match and I have a nice little production […]
Please don’t keep this just for best….
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Thursday, September 27th, 2012
We had a huge storm here overnight – the thunder was so loud overhead that I woke up thinking the house had been hit by lightning – scary stuff in the middle of the night, but the prize this morning was a day as clear as a bell, with the first changing colours just starting […]
Triangles, triangles and more triangles….
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2012
Today I did something that I don’t think I’ve ever done. I decided to really declutter part of my sewing room. Somehow my sewing stuff has always been sacrosanct when it comes to chucking things out and over the last twenty five or so years it’s just accumulated and accumulated….. ….until today. I’ve really reached […]
A big black bin bag day
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