What a strange day it has been. Beginning this morning when I was about to go in the shower. A film crew arrived at the bottom of the stairs leading to our front door, and began to film. They were English and I have no idea what program they were from...
Dave and I also bought an old mirror from the local charity shop, which I have painted in matt black. It is now hanging in a corner of the sitting room thanks to the hook put in by Dave.
Some good news this morning as a local property consultant here in Competa, Sergio Fernandez, has agreed to hang some of my watercolor paintings for sale in his new office.
So anyone who calls in will be able to view them.
I managed to finish the flying geese patterned bag, which looks very nice, all in Christmas colours.
This afternoon I played scrabble which is normally every fortnight, and even managed to win a game. We all opted to try Miguels fish, chips and mushy peas which were delicious. It was really warm and sunny sitting on his terrace too!
I have been a busy bee so far this week and it is only Wednesday.
Here are a few photos of some of the things we have been doing, including Angelita's crochet dress and cardigan she has made for her granddaughter, which is gorgeous.
Also some of the bags that the ladies of the patchwork group are making, including those of Magny, Rosa and Auxilliadora.
The jumper I am knitting for myself is knitting up a treat.
I am finding the pattern easy to knit up despite the amount of stitches I have on the needles.
Dave and I have had our front door open all afternoon as it had been lovely and sunny here.
The blue paint looked ok but needed a bit of zing.. so I added polka dots in white with a dabber made out of a broken knitting needle.
The plant pots looked so nice we invested in another 2 and I decided to paint an urn we already had on the windowsill to match.
They look lovely and bright.
Dave and I have been looking for some new plant pots for outside the house since we had the painting done.
Despite looking, we could not find anything we liked so I decided to paint some plain ones that were 3 € each at the local florist.
We had some left over paint which I coloured with dye and added some sealant too.
I began to paint..
We have begun to make a bag in our patchwork class. I have been making the sides and top of the bag using layers ot material wadding and extra strong interfacing. I posted several pictures on the Competa patchworkblogspot.com showing some of the ladies work.
Here are a couple of photos of what I have been up to.
I brought the sewing machine down to the dining room so I could use the table to take the size and weight of the quilt. I was very lucky to just have cut enough binding too!!.
Picture below of how much was leftover.
Anyway so far so good.. I am now hand stitching the edge of the binding to the top.. it is looking lovely.
Sorted.. saw one of my friends and the same thing had happened to her!! But the good news is that the interfacing will dissolve in water ..
Eek I finished the band of flying geese and went to press it under a cloth.. disaster.. the interfacing shrunk.. what a mess to try and sort out ! So I am now looking for advice..
Tuesday's patchwork group saw six of us beginning to make a circular zipped bag with a flying geese pattern. It is looking nice so far and I am managing to use up some scraps too which is a bonus.
I have also begun to knit a jumper for myself from an old pattern. .
So old that it even says that some people now have washing machines..haha. but I am enjoying knitting during the not so light evenings as the crochet is a bit too dark to do.
Whoo hoo
I have finished the quilting !!
I think it is definitely my favourite bit of the whole process.
But I am too nervous to cut the edges and bind it all by myself so will take it with me on Tuesday to our patchwork group here in competa and ask our teacher Dolores for some advice.
I am glad to say our classes are continuing and we will be learning lots of new techniques as well.
Our little house is all painted and looks lovely thanks to the hard work and attention to detail of Antonio from Construcciones Luis who I can thoroughly recommend to anyone in the area.
