Tuesday 31 March 2020

Working from home in lockdown

Who knew that this scenario could ever be played out? Perhaps some microbiologist sitting in their lab knew, but for the majority of us, life will never be the same.

Enough of the boring stuff, I know you're in there somewhere, stitching your little heart out and achieving greatness. I wonder even if some of you have set up Zoom accounts and catching up with your sewing groups that way?

I really have no projects finished, but as always I have many beautiful beginnings!

I finally completed my Stag nation top. All ready for it to be pinned to the batting and backing, but since I am going to get that professionally quilted I might leave that up to them!


I didn't quite finish my Quilters Quarters Christmas 2019 challenge. I finished the top of my first ever bed runner. The actual blocks turned out to be 3.5 inches small so had to put some calculations into my head and make the blocks bigger. I love the greens I have used and for the first time I incorporated grey into a quilt.

I made a start on my QQ Christchurch 2020 challenge at the annual Staveley retreat in February 2020. I was busy cutting 2" squares for a quilt called Parterre (Splendid Quilts). It's going to look delicious.

I just recently started a baby crib quilt for a lady at work. The 32" top is complete, with Winnie the Pooh characters catching the eye.

And then one of my QQ crew showed me details of a nine patch snow ball quilt she was going to make, and boy it looks super nice and I reckon that will be my next beginning, ha!