The children are home for the summer!! So lots of messy stuff happening mostly with No.1 son.....
He wanted to do some of his own graffiti artwork and I think he has done a very good job! It is much harder than it looks; spraying paint with a huge nozzle and the wind blowing it everywhere you don't want it to go. He also decided he wanted to make a cake and he did a good job of that too - although I think the recipe wasn't quite right!
I should have photographed the kitchen when he was finished; I think a bomb would have been more considerate! But he cleaned it up with the help of his sister - so no complaints from me!!
I have been cracking on with my Secret Mission! Although it's not very secret. I have been getting up early (by my standards!!) to try and do some work on No.1 Daughter's quilt but have found her rising rather early too and so have had to resort to stitching, sometimes with her next to me, praying she won't ask what I am doing! But I suspect she knows as she hasn't asked me directly and last week she sorted out her cupboards, giving me a pile of clothes and saying, 'I really liked these but they don't fit me anymore. Can you make a quilt with them?' Well it will be a surprise when she receives it because I am only working on one block at a time....
This is my first go at crazy style quilting. It is harder than I thought it would be. I am very out of practise with embroidery and hopefully by the end of the quilt I will have improved immensly. I wanted to have the whole quilt planned for but am finding this near impossible! So I am picking up one block at a time and doing whatever comes into my head at that moment - goodness knows how it will all look in the end!
These two blocks above are my favourite ones so far! I just love the pocketful of dreams one! I have nearly embroidered half of the blocks needed for the quilt. I am going to stitch them together once they have all been embroidered by hand then after that I am unsure how I am going to progress! But one process at a time....
On to the reading front; I chose another children's book: Witch Child by Celia Rees. I enjoyed it but found some of it a little far fetched. The quilting theme kept me reading and quilting too. I am now going to read Salley Vickers' Miss Garnet's Angel. This is a book that I have read a long time ago but would like to refresh my memory and read it again. No.1 son and I are reading the sequel to Mortal Engines - Predators Gold I think it is called and we are really enjoying it!
So until next time...
Your quilt is giving you such pleasure.
ReplyDeleteLove your son's cake, are those malteasers on top?
Sft x