Archie The Wonder Dog

Ever the optimist, I've decided to put quite a few things on my list for this quarter of the FAL - many of them are small things which somehow seem to get missed in the 'spare' time I have left once I've made the month's bee blocks (once they are finished I allow myself to machine sew things other than bee blocks but until that point, I try very hard to stick to the 'if you're using the machine, you should be using it to make bee blocks' rule that I've imposed on myself.  It (mostly) works!) and get passed over for other things.  I think that most of my list this quarter involves machine piecing so I'm going to have to make bee blocks in the first fortnight of the month to give myself even a fighting chance!!  Oh well, here goes nothing!! 1.  First up (but not necessarily the first thing I'll tackle!) is the sewing machine embroidery I completed last quarter.  (Or maybe it was the quarter before that!)  I'm going to tu...

Sometime in May, Lynne  asked if I'd be interested in making a project with one of Oakshott's new fat eighth colourshott bundles .  (These will be available at the Festival of Quilts  in August and, I assume, on the website somewhere around the same time.)  After a little ponder about whether I could manage to make a whole project (and write the tutorial) within the time frame (deadlines and pacing don't necessarily go together!), I said yes and I'm so glad I did! I missed all the pointy elbow emails that came as a result of us calling dibs on our chosen bundles as I was out with my mam and so I was left with the 'mystery' bundle which, a couple of days later, was revealed to be a 'neutrals' bundle.  Not my usual stomping ground but I decided to decline the kind offers to swap (we hadn't yet seen a photo of this bundle so I had no idea what I was going to get!) and accept the challenge.  Again, I'm glad I did as this gorgeous 'Metro...