yesterday was quite a stitchalong! i started by helping a friend decide what fabric to use where for a quilt she is making, not that she needed much help, more reassurance that her pieces of embroidery would be good on the fabrics she had chosen, and they will ! some times two minds are better that one. no photos of that, later. then i got on with some bits of stitching, prepared a couple of bindings, had the ironing board up and tried to press these into submission.
i have been machining this so far and it is the centres that worry me, these photos were taken before they got treatment from the iron. my decision with the colour choice was that they were from my cupboard and that they had to have red or pink in them and then i teamed with the black and white like the original pattern. the centres are hard with all the machine stitching in them and i have trouble getting the accuracy! i think i will probably proceed with handpiecing them. i am a bit envious of all you clever machine girls out there, why can't i do it ? lot more to be done, but this is the plan, well sort of.
all the black and whites i purchased from amitie, jenny always has a good range, must be something to do with her football team i think! but you must admit that black and white always looks good with red. i think collingwood and st kilda play each other next week, both teams are doing well this year. i was watching the football last night still sewing half square triangles (when will i stop), st kilda won and then i was riding with the bikes through france till 2 am. got alot of stitching done though.
as i was ironing today i realised that i have this lovely little window just near my back door, you could say a patchwork window!