Holidays and stitching - just back from a fortnights holiday driving to the South of France and back via Lake Como, Stuttgart and Luxembourg. We had great weather on the Cote D'Azur - cloudless blue skies virtually every day, no rain until we got into the Alps, great food and lots of driving.
We stayed in a cottage in the South of France which was very rural and quiet yet only 5 minutes from the motorway which it made it very easy to get around and visit St Tropez, Antibes, Grasse and Nice.
We visitied some very interesting places including the Musee Picasso in Antibes, the International Perfume Museum in Grasse and the Villa Ephrussi di Roschild in Cap Ferrat.
On the way home we also stopped in Brugges for a couple of hours to wander round and enjoy the atmosphere.
Stitching - before we went away I decided to try to get a quilt finished for my nephew, Andrew. His sister and 2 cousins had each had a quilt when they started university, but as he hasn't gone off to uni I've made him one anyway and here is the finished result.
The pattern is from a book called and was really easy and fun to do - the scariest part was cutting the completed blocks to the right size then trimming them so the would appear twisted. I then had to decide how to quilt the finished top. A week before I went on holiday I went on a course at The Bramble Patch with Edwina McKinnon entitled 'But how do I quilt my quilt?' On the course we discussed lots of ways to quilt the various quilts tops that we had taken and this inspired me when I came back to have a go with a spiral design on this one. It took me about 15 hours to quilt it but I was pleased with the finished result and I think Andrew liked the finished quilt.
Since coming back from holiday I have been making a pegbag as a sample for this month's Creative Thread project and preparing samples for a nativity wallhanging workshop we are holding at the end of the month.
