Window watercolour

It was a bit cooler here in Competa today, so following a bit of housework, I went to my little workshop and  began a watercolour of one of the windows of a local restaurante, 'La Casona'.
here it is so far..

I am enjoying painting this one.
I am also repairing some ripped jeans at the moment too, so when I have finished here I will need to go and sew them, before making supper, which is going to be Chinese style lemon sticky chicken and rice.
Due to the lemon glut, I am also going to make some lemon pudding which includes condensed milk and cream... :D
Oh and if you look closely at the celtic design cushion cover in my last post, you can see the mistake I made, 2 crossovers together in the middle, which made me unpick every thing and begin again so it is correct now :D

Celtic design cushion cover

Gosh I am having a very busy week this week.
A call from a member of the knitting club  knitting club to say she had been in an accident and her car had been written off. So she is going to live with her son down on the coast. So I hope she gets over the shock of the accident soon.
Tuesday, in the patchwork class, we began to make cushion covers with a celtic design on the front. Some of the class got to play with the bias binding maker and sticky interfacing tape that held the design together whilst it was being sewn. I made some bias binding from some blue material I had and am currently sewing it onto the base.

Here it is so far 

and here is the spotty dog I am making to sell for charity

 Sadly, we heard yesterday that a friend who had only been ill a short while had died suddenly  RIP..

Finished sewing machine cover

Well, the sewing machine cover has finally been completed.. Yippee....
The machine is now fully protected from dust and is now sitting nicely on the bench in my little workroom.
I may now have to do another one for the over locker.. but I will wait and see. I have been looking at patterns for quilts so I can sew one for my daughter, possibly a star design, but I will let her choose..

Anyway here is a picture of the finished cover
I have also been making a pudding with avocados, which were given to us by our neighbour. I got the recipie from a restaurant. The avocados are mixed with leche dulce or condensed milk and a dash of milk to loosen the mixture, and processed into a very smooth paste, which is then sprinkeld with chocolate powder.
It sounded really weird, but tastes absolutely delicious...
Guess what we will be having for pudding tonight???

Sewing machine cover so far...

I finished the quilting for the parts of my sewing machine cover, and began to sew them together with bright pink bias binding. I needed several attempts at this.
The sides were larger than I needed, and I had to trim them both to fit, making sure that the patchwork base matched up too !! Then I sewed the bias tape onto the straight edge of the cover by machine.
The next step was to make sure that all the raw edges were incorporated in the second fold of the bias.
Then, unusually for me, I decided to tack it all together so I could take my time and sew it properly.
This was the point when my sewing machine decided to misbehave...GRR... snapping thread... big bits of thread on the reverse side... anyway, several unpickings and a lot of fiddling with the tension later Da Da....the sides are now sewn into position. Oh and just for fun I need some more bias binding for the bottom edge as you can see, and the shop is shut until Tuesday....
Oh well, I'm sure I can think of something else to do???

So many projects... not enough time...

Why is it that I wake up in the middle of the night with such good ideas?
It leads me into loads of things... I just never seem to have enough time to do every thing.
Sadly, I always seem to have several projects on the go at once, I really must try and finish one before I begin another..
Anyway, having been to patchwork class yesterday, we were shown a new technique with paper piecing with pre printed triangles, the possibilities are endless too...

Here are a couple of examples..

and here is a crochet table centre that I am making as well.
Dave and I have been sitting on the terrace all afternoon enjoying the good weather at the minute, where I have been painting with oils.. I am soooo out of practise though....

Patchwork...

On Thursday, a friend and I (who is also mad on patchwork) went to a specialised shop in Rincon de la Victoria down on the coast, where we bought lots of material and other patchwork related things MMM..
Following that, we called in to our nearest shop in Torre del Mar, as the first shop did not have the colour of quilting thread that she was using, which we fortunately managed to get, along with a couple of bits for our patchwork teacher.
In the afternoon, another friend and I played scrabble (in spanish) and managed to finish a couple of games with fairly high scores as well.
Yesterday, I was quilting my sewing machine cover, which I continued today as well.
Here is a photo of progress so far..

Finished tunic and more watercolour progress

As promised, here are some photos of the finished tunic...
It is so cosy too! Showed the ladies at the knitting club today, where I helped Concha to begin to knit some mittens for her grand daughter who is only six months old..
Fortunately, Rosalina was on hand to explain crochet stitches in spanish (phew) whilst I was busy..

Here is the front view, showing the cables

and the side view showing the very cosy collar..

I also painted a few more layers of the watercolour, not many more to finish it I think.