Sunday 8 February 2015

Learn to READ!!!!! (Warning...lots of piccies!)

How many times have I told children to...

..."Read ALL of the paper BEFORE starting"?!!

Hmmmpff!

Well...

...I posted a little while ago and said that I was signed-up for the QG Journal Quilt Challenge for 2015...

...and showed a few pieces that I'd stenciled and/or stitched.

WooHoo! Clever girl getting on so well with it all eh?

Hmmmpfffffffff!!

If I'd READ the instructions PROPERLY before starting...

...I would have known that the Journal Quilts have to be 6 inches by 12 inches...

...NOT 6 inches by 8 inches (as I THOUGHT I'd read).!!

So...

...the pieces that I'd already started have now had to go in to the UFO pile...

...and await their fate....

...while I have sorted out another piece of fabric...

...large enough to give me twelve 6" x 12" Journal Quilt front panels...

...and begun to stencil and stitch AGAIN!!

Hmmmpfffff!

This time though, I was a little more inventive with the stencils...

...and used more than one colour Markal.

I must say that I do prefer the results :-)




Some stitching done too....



Then...

...I'm going to have the most difficult job...

...to decide which pieces of gorgeous Japanese Kimono fabrics to use!!

(Got this little bundle from ebay :-)

























This bit below came as a Haori jacket, but I didn't like it when I tried it on...

...so I took it apart and now have a good few feet of delightful ikat fabric to play with!!




Finally...

...results of yo-yo maker-play!





Hope you're all having as much fun as I am :-)

x C