Breakaways in August

Linda's triangles

Lesley's Roosting Robin finished -looks gorgeous!

 Lesley's other challenge quilt.  This is going to a child from Chernobyl.  Quite out of her comfort zone but we thought it was grea
t!

Quilted top and wadding

Tied through to the fleece back

Jane is making quilts for her new niece/nephew.  This is one of them.  The lady on the right is our new member, Fiona :)

Wilma's Roosting Robin which made her try lots of new things.  It is just waiting to be bound and looks really, really good :)

Christine is doing a block for her Patricia McLaughlin quilt

Dawn is quilting this piece with back stitch and beads.  It is looking great.  Such an effective technique.  she might make a bag with it, not sure yet.

Breakaways 16th Feb or thereabouts....

Jane hiding behind another new picture

..and another

and another!

This is the back of Libby's quilt which I think I like more than the front, if that's possible.  Apologies for the out of focus pic

And the front -looks fabulous in real life

Kim is a very innovative quilter - this is her roosting robin

she has been experimenting with 3d hearts and now 3d circles, held down with the stitching

This is a closer look at her roosting robin centre - she did it using Ester Aliu's back basting technique and it looks wonderful!

Mine the bias is pinned as not sure whether I want it there or in that way.  The colours are off; it is actually screamingly bright

This is Steph's.  I sneaked a pic when she was looking at someone else's quilt, which is why it's upside down

This is Linda's.  She has been beavering away and has put her own spin on these blocks.  It's a great quilt!

Sarah's roosting robin

Sarah added this little piece of fairy fabric and framed it

Jane is making this for someone.  Here she is experimenting with the layout....

Snow!

Kids are all excited, schools are making contingency plans and we have had quite a lot of the white stuff coming down.  Daughter in law came to collect gorgeous grandson and slithered her way up the hill in her little car.  Though at the time I texted her at work in  Littlehampton there was no snow and she drove into it coming to us.  DS3 has, quite madly, walked off down the hill to do his fitness training.  If it's not on when he gets there then he will walk home again and that will have to do.  But the weather in our part of the world is often quite mad, being over the hill makes a huge difference - we had snow, a couple of miles away they hadn't.

My car is an old automatic and I am not driving it anywhere I don't have to, tomorrow.  If the schools are open then I will walk; if not, I will cover some books and quilt.  Dh will work from home.  He kindly collected some milk for me on the way home and ds2 commented that there was a huge queue at  the big Asda and it took him a long time to get out of the car park - he'd only popped in to use the loo LOL.

Speaking of snow, if you like cute snowmen, Bunny Hill Designs are doing a block of the month for this coming year, beginning now.  Please visit them here  http://bunnyhilldesigns.com

The British Quilt List on Yahoo Groups (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BQL/ ) have another series of challenges this year.  They have so far done bags and a perpetual calendar and this blog (http://bqlbagblog.blogspot.com/ ) showcases the lot.  You can spend an enjoyable amount of time going through the various bags and calendar pages.  The next set of challenges is more a series of suggestions but in any case the amount of expertise on this list makes it a very useful place to be and somebody usually knows the answer to any question you may have.  And the inhabitants are nice, the mods efficient and pleasant and the whole thing is run by Kandy Newton.  So if you don't belong, might I suggest you join - another pleasant activity on a snowy day.

Dh has just come in to say it is still snowing so I have sent him out with a camera - there may well be a plethora of snowy photos in blogland ere long......