Monday 30 December 2013

Christmas and quilting

Our daughter and her fiancé have been over to visit us for christmas. We have had a lovely time with them both and were sorry they had to go back to England. .
They did send me a lovely gift of a set of Cath Kidson books, which includes a bag to sew. I cant wait to start all the wonderful projects inside.
I have unpicked the quilting I began on the bag we are making in our patchwork class as I was spoiling it as my tension was too tight. Hopefully I have learned from this mistake.. it looks a lot better this time.. I am sewing circles as I wanted to be a bit different from the diamonds everyone else was quilting, and thanks to Dolores for the idea of different size circles it's looking good so far.

Friday 20 December 2013

Lucky us!!

Yesterday we were lucky enough to win a huge jamon in the raffle at our local supermarket. Dave and I had our photos taken.
Last night was also the dinner for the village ladies association. We all enjoyed the meal at the hotel balcon, followed by a bit of dancing.

Monday 16 December 2013

Antique quilt repair

One of my neighbours asked me if I could repair his antique quilt.  The edges were very worn and I followed some advice I found online to do as little as possible. So I sewed bias binding around the edge ( 10meters) by hand.. and repaired the holes in it too. Hopefully it will last a few more years yet.

Saturday 7 December 2013

Christmas Market

Dave and I have had a lovely day at the christmas market here in competa. We chatted to loads of friends old and new who called at the stall to say hello. Thank you