Archie The Wonder Dog

November has been a month of hexies and Stained QAL blocks... All but one of my November hexies - there wasn't room for the other one! Progress on the Stained QAL blocks I've now got four hexies left to piece (and another four that are pieced but haven't been shared) and then I'll have 195 hexies, seventeen of which are 'whole' (i.e. unpieced) and the remaining 178 are pieced. All my Stained QAL blocks are now in rows and all the vertical joins on the back have been stitched down and Nicky has promised that if I ever plan to use Klona on something that's going to need hand stitching then she's going to shoot me!  Stitching a folded Klona edge to a quilted Klona piece is not something I intend to ever do again once this quilt is finished - it took probably three times as long as it would have done with other quilting cotton and I needed a thimble at all times as I couldn't push the needle through with my finger -  it went thr...

It's been a while (a week?) since my last post (is it just me or does that sounds like the start of confession?!) and I'm not entirely sure where the time has gone or what I've been doing - not a lot, I suspect!  I just thought I'd pop in and catch up with everyone before Christmas...which is rapidly approaching - I just have some mince pies to make and then I'm done.  Thanks for the recipe, Susan , I can't wait to try one! One thing I have done is to sort out my scraps (an aim declared in my winter stitching list ).  Before I started they looked like this... All sorted by colour but then thrown into freezer bags - they were crumpled and sad!  And now they're all ironed and in labelled boxes... Don't they look smart in their new boxes and don't you just love IKEA?! Ahhh...that's better! So there's one thing ticked off my list - several more to go! Another thing I've done is to finish the tree triplets for my mam.  I...