Tuesday, November 11, 2014

November

Silent but not idle...
Here's a mosaic showing what I've been busy with...
I finished this small chartreuse quilt...
It's probably the last of my Colorplay scrap quilts.
Today I picked out these fabrics for another quilt, but except for the small chartreuse piece, they are not leftovers from the Colorplay series.
In other news, I started knitting a sweater with a beautiful new Katia yarn (it's the "Merino Effect" yarn).
I've put a new warp on my Louet loom, and I'm experimenting with point twill, and also using floating selvedges (and loving it!).
Last week, I did some book binding with a new great little tool, I spent as much time as possible outside, I played a lot with my GD, and of course I studied Japanese.

I've also been working on this quilt with the Japanese fabrics. I pieced a lot of blocks, but it suddenly got very boring, so I started adding smaller pieces. This is where I am now...
Do you see the two small textile pieces on the right side of the photo? These are Tambani embroideries that I bought at the Carrefour Européen du Patchwork in September. I want to use them for making two little bags.
You can read here about the Tambani Textiles project in South Africa.

4 comments:

Shirley Goodwin said...

An interesting range of things! I will look forward to seeing your knitting and new quilt progress.

Karen Rips said...

I started to make a quilt a ehile ago with the same pattern using some hand dyes I bought years ago, and I ended up bored too. They're sitting in an unfinished project drawer now, but maybe I'll get them out and look at them again

sharon young said...

What a lovely collection of work you've shown, Francoise, and thanks for the link to the African embroideries, what a great project.

ViDerTextil said...

tiens ... je me suis aussi laissé tenter par les tambani ... j'ai des masques en clair aynt déjà fait un quilt avec des masques foncés il y a quelques années :-)