......for your home and your coat!

I've been thinking about this quilt for over a year and have finally made time to start and hopefully complete it sometime very soon.
It's based around my memories of my Grandparents garden in a village near Durham in the North East of England. We visited them every summer and I can remember snippets from the 1970's onwards. Pop (Tom) still worked at the 'pit', he was not working in...

Hurray! I had two and a half days quilting it and a day of binding and finishing off the sample and now it is done and dusted. Only time will tell to see if the lovely Queen Bees of the quilting world like the look of it.
My good friend Hilary over at living to work had posted over the weekend about her struggle to photograph her submission, I thought 'oh yes, I have trouble too and my trusted technical photo guru is not in the country…..what will I do myself!?'...

I'm working on my first submission for a contemporary quilt group challenge. I've had an idea for a while, but no space in my head or day to start doing anything about it.
But yesterday I found some fabric in my stash which is about the right size and I got out my Gelli plate to play with some ideas....

Actually, you may well ask. At the back end of last year I moved into my own studio space for the first time ever! I cannot tell you how exciting this is, it's opened up a whole new channel of opportunity and new people to mingle with.
Never mind being able to make a creative mess and leave it all out until the next time I go in....