Quilting! I bet you thought this was a crochet blog!

 

Gail asked me to quilt this Halloween quilt for her granddaughter.  Gail tried quilting it herself but her machine was playing up.  The top is very busy so I was going to do a simple meander or something but the backing Gail gave me to use was plain-ish so I decided to do a Halloween design.  

I didn't have any Halloween designs so I bought this digital design from Urban Elementz 

I noticed that one of Gail's seams was coming undone so I repaired that.

And all the seams along the edges were coming undone so I repaired those before sewing my usual 1/8th inch stay stitching around the whole quilt.

I'm going away for the weekend with my family and dogs so I have a billion things to do so, of course, I decided to quilt the quilt instead!  I was only going to get it up on the frame but I couldn't stop once I got started!

Here's the quilting on the top.  Totally wasted!

Minnie inspected the quilt!

Here's the backing that Gail pieced.  I didn't manage to get the quilt top centred on the backing (which is why I make my backings deliberately off centre ha ha!) 

Here's the quilting on the back.

It was good to get a quilting project done for a change!

Not much to see…

 I went to retreat and all I have is this picture!  It's a shame because the other ladies did lovely work and I have no pictures!   I didn't want to spoil my reputation of doing nothing at retreat so I did nothing ha ha!  Actually, I did do all the cooking so that was enough work I guess.  And I didn't poison anyone.  Win win!

A while back I bought a value pack of yarn from Spotlight that I wanted to use to learn with before buying decent yarn.  It was horrible to work with so I ended up buying decent wool after all!  But now that I've had a bit of practice I went back to the value stuff and found it easier to use.  I did have plans to do some kind of large granny square blanket but I'm not a fan of granny squares so that idea went out the window and I'm now looking for smaller projects to do so that I can learn new techniques whilst getting rid of this horrible yarn!  It is pretty though!

Wellington loves this value yarn!

I made this Linked Heart Blanket and used up a fair bit of the yarn.  I'm umming and ahhing over a couple of different projects to use up the rest.  But then again, I've since purchased some decent yarn so I'm tempted to start something else!  Who would have thought I'd get so "hooked" on crochet?! It is the perfect craft to do in front of the fire in winter!

I haven't forgotten my quilting!  I'm busy working on my camera quilt unpicking the thread that ended up in the wrong places and burying threads.  There are hundreds of threads so I suspect it'll take a bit of time.  Once they're done it can go back on the frame to be finished.

I had a procedure the other day which meant having IV sedation.  I begged the anaesthetist to put the IV in my already ruined left hand just in case but he wouldn't listen claiming I was paranoid and scared of a teeny tiny needle and put the IV in my right hand.

And this is how that ended up.  I need to find a better way of articulating my wishes so these "I know better" doctors don't railroad me into doing things I know are bad for me.

I'm left with numb fingertips but the numbness is wearing off so hopefully I'll have the full use of this hand soon.  The procedure went well otherwise.

I don't have any plans to do any quilting other than burying the threads on the camera quilt so I may be quiet for a while.  But I'll be back!