UFO is now an FO!!! :o)

Well it has taken thirty years but it is now complete. It has been quilted, washed,blocked and bound.
It is done!!! I can't believe that I have actually finished it, after all this time.

The colours had got quite dull over the years but now that it is freshly laundered and the trial markings have all been washed out it looks like the tmaterials were just bought this month.

It is the first time I have made a sort of traditional type of quilt and certainly the biggest quilt I have made, so I am feeling very pleased to have done it. Moving it around the sewing machine, to do the quilting, wasn't a problem as the machine is set onto a 6' x 3' table.


I did have a problem crawling around to block it out on a spare bedroom floor.
At one point I got really bad cramp in one foot and couldn't get up or down and the quilt took up the floor space so couldn't lie down and moan either!!!

Can't understand why quilting isn't counted as an Olympic sport considering the contortions we go through

Bread dough

Haven't been very productive this last couple of weeks as poleaxed by a the latest cold virus doing the rounds. Beginning to perk up now and fancied doing something different and as we had some stale bread thought that I would make some bread dough. This isn't the flour and salt bread dough that never seems to dry out properly but the bread dough made from real bread, white glue etc.
Find the recipe here if it is unfamiliar to you .
The resultant dough has the consistency of fine putty and it air dries to a very resilient finish.

This little selection was made very quickly as the Sylvanian families (favourite toys of the month) haven't enough food in their cupboards!
They are supposed to be sausages. bread,bananas,bacon chops,strawberry tarts and potatoes. Now they are finished I realise that considering the range of animals that choosing a dinner party menu could have problems but then the fox doesn't usually eat "with" the rabbits in real life!