A Sneak Peek at a Challenge Quilt...

In case you thought I had given up totally on my sewing machine, I thought I'd give you a sneak peek at a piece I'm working on for our Group of Eight quarterly challenge. 

I'm using fabric that I had marbled about two years ago. You can see the posts about that here and here.

All going well, I'll have it done for our meeting Wednesday when we have our challenge reveal, and of course I'll post the finished images here too.

Wish me luck. There are still many hours of quilting left to be done!

Sneak Peek...

On the weekend I was up at the cottage, so I took along some hand stitching to do while I hid inside, away from the blackflies. Yes, I'm a wimp when it comes to those nasty little things...although I did recently hear that we need them to pollinate blueberries (a fact that I have yet to confirm since there is mixed information about this online). Never the less, hide I did. Here's a sneak peek at what I was working on.  You may recognize this from a previous post of a photo I took and then edited in Photoshop elements. I am stitching all of the text  for starters and then I'll figure out what I want to do next.

Unfortunately, due to the complications mentioned in yesterday's post, hand stitching is proceeding much slower than usual...