Posted in Dordogne Life, Gwen Marston, tagged Gwen Marston, Liberated Quilters, Liberated String Quilts on 10 July, 2008 | 13 Comments »
We’ve been busy, getting up at 6.30 am and painting until 10.00 a.m, then collapsing in a heap and trying to get rid of the smell of white spirit. Why?
Look.
Before
After
And we’re off!
The water temperature has hit the magic 22°C. I had the first swim last night and another one this morning. Alex’s mates are here [...]
Posted in Dordogne Life, Quilts and Quilting, tagged Gwen Marston, Liberated Quilters on 18 June, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Haven’t been doing too much these last few weeks, hence the silence. So I decided to get my head round some of those flimsies which have been building up.
Here is Bellatrix - finally finished.
Goes to show how much I’ve been doing in that Tonya’s Class is still on the wall and has got [...]
Posted in Dordogne Life, My Quilts, tagged Dordogne, Hand Quilting, Spring on 15 May, 2008 | 15 Comments »
Managed to get myself poked in the eye with a tree branch while mowing the lawn the other day so I can’t quilt. Should have looked where I was driving!
I have been doing a lot on Ab Fab, but have reached a sort of stale mate. I need to stock up on [...]
Posted in Dordogne Life, La Vie Française, Lazy Gal, Quilts4Leukaemia on 8 May, 2008 | 6 Comments »
For Tonya’s Summer Class. I’m continuing the repetition theme by doing some wonky houses.
The picture has come out a bit dark - bit of a grey day here today.
Quilt No 7 for Qs4L
I love the apple block and Irene’s block, first left, second row down.
It’s a Bank Holiday here today (Victorie 1945), Alex [...]
Posted in Dordogne Life on 22 February, 2008 | 11 Comments »
I’m not too sure how this is going to work out.
I’m sending this via email/Flickr.
Yesterday was glorious. The walk to the bus in
the morning did not require a torch or a coat and
I could smell Spring. The birds were singing and
the sun was pouring through the Velux in the bedroom.
Max temperature was in [...]
Posted in Dordogne Life on 12 February, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Tonya posed the question ”What’s outside your kitchen window?”
This was taken Sunday morning.
That orange blob is a chasseur/hunter waiting for the rest of the chasseurs/hunters to flush out a sanglier/wild boar. They didn’t have much luck! He was there for hours. There was another chasseur in the woods which are out of sight to the right and another 3 in the field on the horizon where the [...]
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