A frustrating two weeks!

Two weeks of dealing with my back problems,

no fun at all especially with lumbar spasms which floored me

for a week!

So time spent dosed up on pain medication which in addition

to the back pain and immobility rendered me semi-comatose!

One up-side of all this were the sunrises in the mornings when

I couldn't sleep.

A stormy day ahead

A better day

 No quilting until yesterday when I found the time and energy
to sew the ready pieced borders on the collage piece for
the Gwennie Inspired Medallion.

Gwennie Inspired Medallion

Poor old Leila (former known as Tallulah) was in the vet clinic for spaying. All went well surgery wise but she was really antsy afterwards. A nightmare at

home trying to chew through stitches, the result was back to the clinic

for four small syringes with a dose of pain meds in each, and one of those

Elizabethan Collars, referred to as E Collars by the vet nurse which slightly

confused my husband!!!

Here is the patient this morning, not at all happy as I think you can see.

Time for a feed, both for her and us,  hopefully back in action

with my quilting tomorrow. Woefully behind now with my WIP's,

hopefully things will be back to normal soon.

Update - linking up with Kaja and Ann at AdHoc Improv Quilts

Enjoy your week.

Maureen

Another late starter - Gwennie Inspired Medallion QAL

This centre piece for the medallion was ready to go a couple of days ago

but other things cropped up and I'm only now catching up on

posting and reading two days of blog posts!

In the spirit of liberated quilt making I added a bit of fabric

on the RH side of the background fabric, my DH came in to ask me a question

just as I was cutting the fabric, of which I had very little left,

you can see the result!!

I've always wanted to try collage and decided this was the time.

The three larger leaves overhanging the basket edge

were cut as one but the flowers are all individually cut and placed.

My next challenge is how to quilt these!!! This needs to be done

whilst the piece is still small enough to handle easily.

There are two pieced borders to get on there before the

beginning of August, I should be OK with that time frame as the centre with

frame measures only

15 and1/2" by 16 and 1/2".

A quick tidy in the studio and then onto more Gypsy Wife blocks.

Enjoy the week.

Maureen

Easy peasy blocks

Onto Gypsy Wife but the brain is not working

at full capacity so I've begun with a few

square in square blocks

the ones above will be 3" finished when they're all trimmed and sewn, the three below 

will be 4".

My colours seem to be off on the last three, such a dreary, dull and wet day here

and usually my lighting is pretty much spot on but

seems not today!

I need a clear head and un-interrupted sewing time for the next block - 

Nurses Cross - I don't intend working out the fabrics

with my off-sider in the room with me, I shall attack that tomorrow.

Did I ever show you a photo of three small works

by
Mandy Pattullo
a wonderful collage artist?
I bought these pieces from her about a year ago and they're now
framed and settled in a corner above my cutting table and the miniature
set of drawers which hold my threads.

If the light is good tomorrow
I'll take photos of each individual piece, they really are beautiful.
Apparently she will have a book out, I think in September, and that's
got to be added to my book shelves!

Time to go and make a huge pan of chicken soup for our evening meal,
lots of chicken, leek, cauliflower, kumara, carrot, sweet peppers, sweet corn
and lima beans - yummy!! Lots left over for the freezer too.

Enjoy the week!

Maureen

Pink for RSC 2016

The brief from Angela this month was pink - think watermelon!

There was no true watermelon coloured fabric in my collection so I've

gone for the nearest fabric I could find, however, in the spirit of "watermelon"

I do have quite a decent amount of this fruit on the green fabric below.

This is another one of my long ago purchases, I knew

it would fill a gap somewhere!

I love to see a cut watermelon, delicious colours and the green

rind but I don't eat them, everyone I know just can't understand 

that I'm a fan of the colour but not the fruit itself.

I'm finding my quilting time is seriously eroded

due to my furry friend below, presently she has to stay indoors

but I hope that after a spot of surgery at the vet clinic and

time spent recovering she will be able to venture into the big outdoors.

It's easy to forget how quickly kitties grow, here she

is sitting on the top level of her cat scratch pole.

Time for me now to try and do some catch up quilting whilst

everything is quiet.

Linking up with more watermelon pinks
HERE

with Angela and other "pinkies"

Happy 4th July!

Maureen

Kaleidoscopes - almost halfway there

It was time I had all the kaleidoscopes made so far up on the wall.

There is quite a way to go until  there are enough for

the size quilt I have in mind but I needed to check out colours as well

as numbers.

OK, I see there are enough mostly medium range colours, plus the odd dark one,  I now

need to focus on light and bright and some with more contrast in there, and probably sew a few

more dark and rich blocks and them mix them up!

Corners won't be added until I have all the kaleidoscopes up on my large wall.

I'm  linking up with

Cathy and Ann 

at

Kaleidoscope of Butterflies

hope you'll go visit!

Maureen