Sick and tired

Of being sick and tired!  Although I've started to get bored now so hopefully that means I'm on the mend!

I've done a little bit of the cross stitch Santa I've been working on for ages.  It might even be finished for this Christmas!

Although now that I'm looking at all that empty space on the back of the cross stitch perhaps I shouldn't be so hopeful of it being completed by Christmas!

I've been quilting.  Just one quilt for a friend.  The ones I made at my living room retreat have been shoved into a cupboard!

This poor quilt top has been sitting on my frame for almost 3 weeks because I've had a disaster after disaster with the tablets and programs I use to run the machine.  It's all sorted now, fingers crossed, and I've managed to finish the quilting.

I used a free pattern from Urban Elementz called Pansies which are nice and simple and I thought went well with the style of this quilt.  It's a sampler made up of a mixture of pieced blocks, appliqués and embroideries.  Peta will now be adding some details which had to be put on after the quilting was completed.

Here's the quilting design on the back.  I asked my husband to take the picture as I was holding it up so I wouldn't get dog hair all over it and the photo isn't the best.

        

I'm going to retreat in Ballarat in a couple of weeks time and I'm wondering what to take with me. I have so many projects to choose from!