I have been making cards (of course) and here are a few of the recent makes. Above was a thank you for my mother-in-law.
This was made for her 90th birthday earlier in August. I really like this Sizzix 'Romantic layers' die set as it gives such a pretty result.
Here's the inside of the card.
Here are a few cards for the dreaded 'C' word - yes, these are for Christmas!
This card was for another 90th birthday for one of Chris's friends.
Another birthday card using a watercolour background...
...and another, again using a watercolour background.
The 'Other Things' is my neglected hexagon English Paper Piecing project - to make a cushion cover in shades of blue, with the idea of graduating colour. I have been following Jo at
Through the Keyhole and she is just starting an EPP project, which prompted me to get mine going again too. Since I took the photo above, I have discovered a huge stash of blue fat quarters, so I was busy cutting and stitching more hexagons yesterday, while watching the film 'Tremors' on TV. You wouldn't think these pastimes would work together, but they did. Well, I thought they had but then realised that I had cut the paper patterns too big, so had to take them apart, re-cut and re-sew (this time watching three quarters of 'The Day of the Jackal' - a film I have never yet managed to see the whole way through!) I wonder what anyone would make of my viewing on a Sunday! Anyway, I am just finishing off re-sewing and then I shall lay them all out again and see what I have got. The idea for this cushion cover came from a book -
Wabi-Sabi Sewing , (I love the idea of 'perfectly imperfect') but I have gone a bit off piste and am making a different version for my cushion. We shall see how it all goes.
Having finished my Index Card A Day Challenge, (and now constructing a box from an old shoe box to keep the cards in) I have been thinking about what to do next and I think I may have found the perfect thing. More news on that later in the week, all being well. I know, how enigmatic...
