A finished flimsy and a new project

It's been some time!!!

Crutches back with the physio - at the moment anyway - and I'm back

at the machine but with a difference, I have my left foot on the pedal

not the right one,  this change took me a little while to get the co-ordination flowing
smoothly.
I've been doing a little sorting of projects.

First off I finished the seams on the 2 x 4 quilt top, comes under the heading
of a Squirrel Club project.

then a little more hand quilting on Paintbox, 

this is the full shot below from (can't believe this)

2015!!!!! 

I pulled out a WIP  - below - put away because I wasn't sure if I truly

wanted to continue with it, I do, that's down for next week.

 A wander in the garden

and then onto Scrap Vortex (below).

You may remember it was put aside because I was fast

losing the ability to focus my eyes stitching this.

Julie, who blogs at quiltdivajulie.blogspot.com/,
offered to adopt the blocks should I decide I truly didn't want
to continue on with it.
After thinking this over and pulling the said project out of
the parts box I decided to take drastic action

so now I have twenty three 3 and1/2" by 12 and 1/2" pieces,
a selection below

and I also have

a few strips of KF Aboriginal Dots
and one of his stripe fabrics.

I'm still stitching on this one but I'll have a photo
up later in the week.

Before I sign off a huge thank you for all the good wishes
sent my way. It's a toss up as to whether it's a
Medial Collateral Ligament tear or the Meniscus or something entirely
different, another knee specialist visit this week.

Bye for now and Happy Quilting

Maureen

Slow Stitching and Unpicking!

I haven't hand quilted for a few years, used to love it but my arthritis in my hands

put a stop to that.

Feeling the need to sit, relax and hand stitch again (with the aid of

good pain medications) I'm working

on my Paintbox quilt - just look under Labels on my side bar

for older posts.

Because I like these fabrics to take centre stage

the quilting will be minimal, just outlining the central wedges

in the ditch with 

a beautifully variegated Oliver Twist cotton which blends in rather than

shouting "here I am, in fact you can barely see it at all.

Unpicking an older quilt is quite a relaxing

task for Sunday Slow Stitching! This is a wall hanging made 

many years ago, lots of black fabric which had faded badly.

Some components could be salvaged, the central log cabin portion was

made from my own dyed silks, lilac silks from one of my

daughter's ball dresses and a few pieces of bought

hand made paper with silk which I dyed.

 I was hoping my border of Flying Geese - again the dyed paper/silk -  could be saved,

it was always quite fragile and over the years of storing it's become

really fragile, I could only save the piece below.

So that was my stitching on Sunday and here we are with another

Monday morning, washing out on the line making the most of the sun

and the windy weather.

Floors swept and shopping put away, the rest of the day

is mine!!

Linking up now with

Kathy hosting Slow Sunday Stitching.