Today, I posted about experiencing Harrods and I posted about having a walk about in London here. I'll be sharing posts about my trip for some time to come. It's been great having the time to spend with my daughter!

I visited Windsor Castle and Leeds Castle along with some other notable places. . .such as Stonehenge. I'm still visiting my daughter and seeing the English countryside.

I shared about taking a photo and painting the likeness on fabric which I learned the technique in a class here.

Currently, I'm visiting our daughter in London. I shared the first day here.

I played with some selvages and stitched a tote. You can see it here. Then I wanted to preserve a drawing from one of the grands. You can see it here!

Last summer I watched a cute little critter, a cicada, as it emerged from its shell. I turned the photos that I took into a fabric/photo art quilt. If you would like to take a peek, please click here.

Saturday morning, I took a class and painted on fabric. It was a blast! Saturday afternoon, I taught a free motion quilting class. Participant feedback was positive. . .whew!!!

I shared about my thread stash here.. What kind of thread is your favorite?
This morning, we are having our second snow day of the week, which is unusual. I shared here what I did and plan to do!

The grands have been stitching. Miss J completed a whole family of bunnies which you can read about here. Miss K completed a mermaid which you can read about here. As for my stash, Wendy, if I hadn't replaced the fabrics as I stitched them into projects, I'd have a lot less fabric. . .but, this year, I'm trying to ignore the pull of replacing the fabrics at the same rate or at an accelerated rate. . .meaning, I was bringing more home than I'm using! I'm also working to use fabrics that I've petted for years!!

Terry I can't get my head round how big your stash must be! Nice little bag Terry, love the red fabrics with the black Ginko. Get back to sewing

In awe of your quilting as always Nancy, it's interesting seeing it building up. The rulers must make it a lot quicker than how you drafted with the Cindy Needham inspired piece. I'm on the line with them, they're expensive over here, I could be building Terry's stash. I do love your piece.

Terry and Nancy, love your blog posts! Nancy your finished piece is beautiful. Terry, your badges are cute and I can't wait to see what you do with your denim piece. That's not an easy fabric to work with!

geneva

Hi all -

I just finished a blog post about Patsy Thompson's ruler class that she had for free in her blog in January. It was fun and I really like my final project. If you're interested, you can read about it here.

Thanks!

I finished the third ID badge. This one is for me and I started a new project! I also was a winner for the 2017 Finish-A-Long. It was fun picking a few more fabrics for my stash. . .now, I'd better get to stitching so I meet my goal of having a net loss of fabric in my stash this year!

I finished a couple of ID badges which you can read about here and here. I thought about making them last August! I've one more to stitch. . .this one will be for me! The fabrics below--the pink background fabric for sure--might end up in a circle block which is a challenge block. I've sketched some designs and am ready to draft a pattern.

BJ, I can hardly wait to see your newest piece. I also entered into MAQF, the nice thing about Mancuso shows is they don't make you wait forever to get an answer. It is frustrating somewhat with AQS shows to wait sometimes 4 months to get an answer if your quilt made it in and the waiting obstructs entering that quilt into other shows. Oh, well, we will hear soon.

Sharon in Colorado