WIP – what is that? Work in progress, to the uninitiated!
Crafters knows that term well as a way to justify all those half finished projects that tend to accumulate.
This is one of mine and what you see are half square triangles in random colours that I am sewing into strips. Eventually, they will turn into a quilt. Just not sure what it will look like yet!
I was at my quilting group last week when I purchased some raffle tickets, and imagine my surprise when someone rang me the next day to let me know that I had won second prize! This is my lap quilt and a bottle of wine as well!
Pretty cat fabric
Which reminds me of my lucky streak before we left for our vacation – our quilting group has a monthly competition. You purchase a pattern for 50 cents and the corresponding fabric which has all been pre-cut. Sew it up, bring it back and you are in the draw to win approximately 25 blocks. The other blocks are used to make a quilt for a charity. I won these blocks two weeks running!
So now I have to make the quilts. I will donate one to a charity for sure – the other one I will make for my mother-in-law. Time to get myself organised. Hopefully will have some finished quilts to show in the next month or so.
This is all I have to show after spending a great day at the annual Craft & Quilt Fair last week. Yes, I did remember to take my camera and yes, I took lots of photos of some beautiful quilts which featured in two quilt challenges – True Blue and Lest We Forget in honour of the Gallipoli landing, as well as demonstrations and workshops. Unfortunately, after downloading them onto my (new) laptop, it decided that it would not turn on the next morning and I had to take it back to the shop – for the third time! Too bad I so efficiently deleted the photos from my camera after downloading.
So the good news is that I was given a store credit to replace my laptop (a different brand this time!) but the bad news is that I lost all my data.
As if that wasn’t enough, I just purchased a new washing machine in the last few days and used it for the first time yesterday. The first load went through perfectly; unfortunately it broke down on the second load, which then got rewashed about 4 times while I tried to get the water to drain out, which it refused to do. Result – a very clean laundry floor and a new washing machine being delivered tomorrow.
They say these things happen in three’s …… can’t wait to see what happens next!
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