Sleepy Kitties

I'm still thoroughly snuffly with cold today so here are two photos I managed to take yesterday.

Tigger and Ginger frequently sleep curled up together but whenever I try to get a picture they wake up. This time I succeeded!



Tweed Bag

I have been down with a nasty feverish cold since yesterday, so this morning I have just picked the first photo I came to. This is a large bag, made from a remnant of real tweed. I added a picture of Tigger that I printed on to fabric and a strip of ribbon to cover the edge of the picture.  The bag has a cotton lining, but I don't seem to have taken a photo that shows it and I am not feeling up to doing it just now. All made from odds and ends that I already had around the house!

Good Friends

It is a grey Monday morning so here are two pictures from when Ginger was still a kitten. Tigger is about a year older than Ginger. You can see how well they get on together.

They used frequently to sleep like this, until Ginger got too heavy!



Single Shuttle Tatted Doily

I finished this doily last night and blocked it overnight to show you today.

I made up the pattern as I went along and I think it works. I wanted to achieve a balance of solid areas with very airy ones using just one shuttle.

Here is a closeup. You can see that the open areas get wider as the doily grows. And yes I do know I missed a little ring at one point. I didn't have enough of the thread to correct it. The thread was an anonymous reel from the bottom of my thread drawer. I think it was maybe a fancy quilting thread. Anyway I ended up with less than a metre of thread left at the end. So the two mistakes I am aware of just have to stay there!



Here I have photocopied the doily and drawn over part of the pattern to make it easier for anyone else who wants to make one like it. It is very simple. The centre ring has 3 stitches between picots. Everywhere else there are 4 stitches. The trick is in getting the lengths of thread between the rings the right length to make the doily lie flat. This is largely a matter of experience.

The rest of the applique blocks

The computer is cooperative this morning so here are the rest of the applique blocks.

I particularly like this papercut star block.



More Applique Quilt Blocks

More problems accessing the photos but I have finally managed to get most of the ones I was going to show you today.

More next time, if the computer cooperates!



The next lot of Applique Blocks

I had so much trouble persuading the computer to access my photos this morning that I was on the point of giving up. But it finally decided to let me show you some more applique blocks from my quilt, so here they are.

I should explain that I very rarely use plain white fabric in a quilt. It isn't obvious in many of the photos but I actually always use white on white or cream on cream fabrics. Somehow it doesn't have the starkness of plain white so I prefer it.

More next time, computer permitting!