September

 Tuesday 3 September 

Although I’m retired, somehow September seems like a new year.  Children return to school and there is an autumnal air which seems fresher, somehow.

A fresh start in our household comes in the shape of a new carpet in the dining and living room floors. We’ve had our old carpet for nearly 20 years and high time for a change.

I asked if we could have an inset coir mat so we didn’t have to deal with door mats that creep. It looks much better.

My car came in useful to take the old carpet and underlay to the tip.

Last Friday (although just in August) I went to the Creative Craft Show in Farnborough and it was also a chance to see some old friends while up that way.  It has a mixture of crafts - quilting, knitting, crochet, paper crafts - so a good variety of things to see.  The exhibition centre is part of what was once the Royal Aircraft Establishment, but now has an airport and business park as well as the exhibition centre.  

I took some photos of the quilts of a display by the Contemporary group of the Quilter’s Guild in the theme of Doversity.

As I kept out of the way of the carpet fitters this morning I decided to make a couple of cards.  I couldn’t  take part in the Zoom meeting to make I took the requirements and photo to suss out how they were made.

Saturday 7 September 

Friday was a miserable day, but a good day for getting on with some sewing. I had 3 small quilted pieces and made them into pouches.  The larger one with the orange zip will be for my friend but the others will be for a charity sale in October.  It was very quick to make up and takes these squares out of my UFO pile.

I then used some mainly blue strip blocks together with 2 cross blocks and made one more cross block and arranged these together.

I felt the quilt top needed to be a bit bigger so after going through stash looking for a largish blue piece I came across a fabric I’ve had for years with fish on it, which fitted the bill. So that’s another small quilt top with the backing fabric in the photo below and another UFO progressed.

Next I’ve had some fat quarters that have been in my stash for a few years so I decided to make these into rail fence blocks. They are really pretty and feminine with flowers and butterflies. Just look at the selvedges.  The fabrics were from an old Lewis and Irene range.

The blocks were arranged on my bed but I’ve only sewn to top row.  By this time it was getting on for 5pm and about time I thought about dinner!

It was really good to have a quality bit of sewing time.