Alternative web address news

Just to let you know that my blog can be accessed with the shorter web address http://perfectly4med.co.uk. The old perfectly4med.wordpress.com address still works, so there’s no need to change any of your bookmarks, but you’ll notice a switch as you connect to the site if you happen to be watching the browser URL box.

More Christmas Distress Cards

Here’s my November Craft Club project – more distressing and emboss resist work, this time using two colours direct to the card, and a tag thrown in too:

College Week 6 – Print

I’ve just noticed that I missed out the result of my print module in my blog updates – so here it is:

These items were screen printed with black acrylic ink. I arranged my own drawings into a collage which was then transferred to the screen for printing. There were a number of other experimental prints with different colour combinations, but these were the ones I liked the best.

My first quilt – Jelly Roll Sampler

There’s been a bit of a lull in postings – sorry about that! My creativity has had no such lull, so here’s a quick update of my activities…

I finally finished my first quilt – it’s a Jelly Roll Sampler, made with ‘Grace’ by 3 sisters for Moda. Each block took about an hour to make, with the sashing and border taking an afternoon, the basting and quilting another afternoon and the binding another four hours. I’m rather pleased with the outcome, and it’s now gracing our ‘guest’ sofa 🙂

It took me a while to decide on a quilting pattern, helped by the need to wait for an even feed foot for my 12 year old Singer 1012 to arrive in the post! Here’s a close up:

Next for quilting is another Jelly Roll in brown and grey batiks, made to a quilt-as-you-go pattern. It’ll be a while as I’m making another handbag as a Christmas gift…