And apparently the goose is getting fat. I'm not sure about the poor goose but I'm certainly getting fat! I went to retreat in Ballarat last weekend and I believe I ate my bodyweight in chocolate! It was delicious though!
I've been thinking of making some Christmas quilts for my living room as I have a banister dividing the room because it's one of those 70's sunken living rooms where they put up the banister in case you fell to your death down the one step. I'd tear it out myself but my husband loves it so I do my best to disguise it with dust quilts hanging from it. While I was at retreat Spotlight was selling the Christmas fabric cheaply and as I had a 30% off voucher too I bought 13 metres of fabric for very little money woo!
I decided to make napkins for the Christmas table first. I used a pattern by Shabby Fabrics and added the little trunk part. I'd left all of my turn through holes and threads to do at my Tuesday sewing group. All the ladies saw were half circles with this weird thing sticking out and they were so polite ooohing and ahhing over them.
They were amazed once I folded them into trees! I probably could have taken a better picture!
After that I decided to make a Merry Christmas bunting. I cut the fabric into rectangles.
Then cut the letters out using appliqué paper.
I used my machine to blanket stitch around the letters.
Four down, quite a few more to go! Why are there so many letters in Merry Christmas??
I don't think I'll get around to starting the Christmas quilts and, in fact, I need to look at a lot of pictures for inspiration first anyway. That might take some time. I'm thinking years of time...
And here I am, the quilter, hemming pants. Sigh.
I finished the second bedroom curtain to the stage of the first curtain. They'll be hanging until I feel enthusiastic enough to hem them. But I got the hard heavy lifting part done at least before I had to empty my studio for the engagement party.
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