Hexagons

Just a few minutes to spare before pitch and stitch so I thought I'd do an update -this time tomorrow I'll be rushing around like a March Hare because we have a full class to start the Yoko Saito town quilt so better crack on.

We had a lovely day working on hexagons last Wednesday - English paper piecing, no machines, all chat!  There were a lot of ideas being discussed about the different things the little hexagon 'flowers' would become - very inspiring!

And Carole and Toni were using the satchels they made in the Clare Kingslake class:

I was, of course, still working on the same old stuff - really need to get my mojo back:

Messy, messy, messy.

When I took Reuben round the house the other night for his mini-walk after supper, I was struck by the fact that from the back of the house I saw this:

and from the front this was the view:

 

Quite beautiful really.

Just had to add this.  Doriana won a funky bag in a raffle and brought it along to Pitch and Stitch to show us.  I found the care instructions inside:

I don't know how easy it is to read this but it's so funny.  Reminded me of when I used to translate documents in Italy - at 3.00am anything makes sense!!