Happy Update

Where do I start ... Wonderwool was good fun, chatting to lots of people. I was good and didn't buy any yarn or fibre - I mainly came home with food, a drop spindle and a book on needle felting.
I also came back with a bad cold - spent a few days in bed trying to get rid of the snuffles.

Since then I have managed to knit a few things - I used most of my Colinette stash to make this throw...

It is taller than me (not difficult some of you might say !)

I have also managed to finish my Mermaid kit - sorry no photo, it is hiding in a partly undecorated bedroom...



On Friday I managed to go to the Quilt Show at Malvern.

I met up with Georgina, and we had fun discussing the various quilts on display.

We liked this one...













This was made up of very small appliqued leaves, they must have had to be very careful when applying them - if I tried I would have probably sneezed at the wrong moment !!
















This was amazing - an altar frontal

Fields and a river running through them...

I did come away with some material, somehow I needed some to help me use up some of the stash...

And the main reason why I have been away for so long is that I have been spending time making plans for the future.... Exciting times, lots of looking about on here and here
Only problem is trying to sell two houses and do lots of redecorating before then...

And yes I am very happy, he comes with his own spinning wheel (which he foolishly said he would like to learn how to use) and who knows one day we might actually manage to keep alpacas as well as chickens !!

Malvern Quilts

Last weekend saw the first Autumn quilt show at Malvern.

I had a very quick visit, but took lots of photos !!

This is part of a wooden wall carving...
Lots of sheep is you look hard enough (click to make bigger)








I think I've got the pattern for this one ....

I liked all the pots looking different but being the same..














Apple anyone ?










And there were sheep in quilts....

Someone said 'yuk, what's that furry thing ?'

And they were nextdoor to the Sheep Centre

Quilters are a focused bunch !!






This was one of my favourites... I've got a thing for Sunflowers and Sweet Peas (but they didn't have a quilt of them ...)



They were in 3D, folded material...











And this reminded me of spiro graph patterns of the 70's... (I've still got some of the plastic cogs..)

There were lots more quilts and I only came away with three patterns, all for Christmas presents...

I'm off to London tomorrow for the Stitch n Bitch day, if you are going please come and say hello, I'll be on the Knitting and Crochet Guild Stand. I think I've got everything together, but have this feeling I've missed something out - there will be new old knickers on display (if I ever get the side seams sewn up, and I think I will be knitting some on the train..)

Did you know that there are nearly as many stitches in the front of knickers as in the front of a jumper - no wonder they have been taking me so long !!

When I come back I've got a trip planned on Tuesday to Welshpool, and a stain glass taster day on Friday before packing the car up again and heading north to Harrogate. I'm so relieved that I'm taking the car there so don't have to work out what I can and can't carry.. I cant believe it's come round so quickly ...