We had house guests for the past 9 days, time just seemed to be sucked up in an immense vacume and vanish from under my feet. It was however, refreshing to have company at the sewing machine in the form of my parents. With Dad in charge of trimming up, mom & I fired through enough log cabin quilt blocks to leave me with a stack to put together into a winter themed wall quilt to partner the one mom made me a few years back.
There has been progress, lots of progress.... Kitchen roman blind has been completed and looks fantastic in the kitchen, my workroom curtains are up and keeping out the bitter cold drafts of typical scottish winter evenings, christmas gift sewing was completed on time (1 kindle case, 1 nintendo DSXL roll case, 2 sets of heat proof pot mats, bread baskets x 3, pajama bags, and from an old irish linen pillow slip I created a very pretty treasure bag for my eldest daughter. I now need to run around taking photos of everything !
Full scale into spring thinking has happened & I'm pushing on with generating soft furnishing ideas for the lounge & 2 bathrooms which will be next on our hit list. The lounge is talking to me of linen in soft beige, off white and gentle greys, the bathrooms I think I will struggle to plan until we narrow down the choice of shower unit & suite furniture.
Craft sale thinking has also been happening, a must if we are to try keep our earnings on the survivable path, so a few quilts in the planning for these and a selection of various other handy items - ipod & reader cases/purses/pillows/floor cushions/baskets etc, the work room table is littered with sketches and measurements and fabric clippings as I design board each pattern as I final draft it. I find it strange working with patterns & only do so when I want to make repeats of some items in identical size with different colourways, normally I just hold the pattern in my head & the hands know how to the rest, but when it comes to craft sales, copyright & retaining origionality & individuality of ones patterns are of utmost importance, to often have I spent hours on designs for a craft fair only to attend one some weeks later & discover someone has copied my designs right down to tiny details.
Birthday gifts are also in the forefront, my middle girl will be 12 in march. She's developing quite a thang for all things japanese so I think a project or two using vintage kimono fabrics may be in order and perhaps a linen covered diary organiser with a quirky touch or two to it.
Garden planning is also starting to happen, this years stock of seed potato are ordered & the chitting trays washed and ready, rotational plans for all 3 of our plots are done & seed catalogues are being poured over.
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