This afternoon I have finished the foreground of the landscape...
...just filling in in front of the wall with muddy water with the tops of a few plants poking up.
Then when I looked at the overall effect I was very irritated by the fact that the clouds were right at the top edge and would be chopped off by the binding. This post a little while ago shows how the raw edge is just a fraction of an inch above the top of the clouds.
The solution was to slice off a little of the unquilted fabric from the bottom and lay it over the wadding at the top and quilt over the raw edges - easy to spot if you look closely, but fairly unobtrusive from the opposite side of the room.
Now I have to think about how I am going to bind it. I already have a few ideas for the next landscape, and this time I might plan it a little better.
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This is where the paper flowers have ended up - decorating the skirt of the outfit that I have made for the Out of Print Fashion Show. It took me eleven days to make the complete ensemble, including accessories, and we had the dress rehearsal last Thursday. It promises to be an interesting night - no two outfits alike, or even remotely similar...
It was quite enjoyable running up something that is to be worn once only and just for the fun of it. No finished seams, loose ends hanging everywhere. I wish I could get away with it all the time!
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A wonderful view of the Dorset coast, seen from the ferry when we were sailing to France a few years ago.
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Here is the bodice with the side seams done. I have done more felled seams.
Also on the sleeves I have done felled seams. I couldn't have managed doing it on sleeves that are any longer because you have to work down a tube, and it was a bit of a tight operation, but I managed it. Usually I do French seams, but they give a bit more bulk and it can be a fuss trimming the extra bulk where the seams join under the arms - so this time I thought I would have the fiddly bit over and done with at this stage to make life easier later on.
Inserting the sleeve always looks as though it will be daunting. The sleeve head seems pretty enormous compared to the armhole in which it is to be inserted. But it will work...
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This lovely cotton batik was sitting in a charity shop waiting for me to buy it. It is a couple of yards long, mostly printed with the design shown in the first picture...
... with two bands incorporating this narrow border...
... with this wider border set between them.
It is a sarong print. Swanning around on hot beaches looking exotic really isn't my style, so there is no room in my wardrobe for a sarong. Perhaps a dress, or a top and a skirt that I can wear separately. Either way, making the best use of the border design might take some working out.
It is a while since I worked on this landscape, after being knocked slightly off course by the wretched frozen shoulder. Today I finally felt like working on it again. I needed to soften the outline of the stone wall in the foreground.
A few weeds in dark green in front of it and some bare twiggy plants in brown on the far side have done the trick. I have now worked out how to finish off the picture - it shouldn't take long.
As for the frozen shoulder - I have now worked my way to the top of the queue and saw an NHS physiotherapist for the first time last week. I went to my doctor about it on the 31st March and had to wait until 12th May to see the physiotherapist. Even though the shoulder is much less painful now and can move a little better, it is far from being normal, and I am looking forward to being monitored and treated by the NHS. It has been a fairly long wait, and I haven't been particularly patient, but at least now I can be fairly sure that things should improve.
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and with Kelly's blog My Quilt Infatuation for Needle and Thread Thursday,
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I saw this beautiful fresh fluffy white feather being blown across the ground on Tuesday, so I picked it up and brought it home. When I came into the house there were patches of rainbow colours in the kitchen - the windows refract the light. I put the feather on a piece of black cloth in the little patch of rainbow, and tried not to breathe when I pressed the shutter...
