Method:- The block is finished. I've tiled the block to see what a quilt would look like…. I love it… I wish I had time to make a whole quilt instead of one block   This is very simple applique. I've used a small open zig zag. 1.3 stitch width and .95 stitch length. I…

Thoughts and process:- It's been unbelievably hot today, I think I've mentioned that quite a bit this week. I've not been able to achieve all that I wanted to do, but I may be able too tonight… I've been working on the notes for a class called Mexican tiles and I decided to make another…

The video of the illustration of Pamela is published. I said the word "little" far too many times, but then again…. it's a 'little' project

I've just finished the video of how to illustrate the Pamela block, but I'm off on other exciting adventures today so I will get it up on the blog tonight.

Power outages put an enforced stop to work today… Visits from friends and grandchildren and I should stay out here till the wee hours but I'm not going to. SO I didn't get as much done as I wanted to today. BUT the marking of the quilt is finished, it took about 20 hours to…

5.00 am and still very dark… It's going to be very hot today so an early start is the go so I can have a little time in the pool in the heat of the day, it's also a good time to ring the USA for business.  I'm getting old… the body is falling apart….

Just heard from Jamie on a very crackly line. "Mum I just want to let you now I'm safe" However, the other cameraman has two broken ribs…   The antidote to stress is to draw and listen to music… so I will play with the almost finished alphabet.

Just got news that all of the crew were saved when their ship sank after being rammed by the Japanese ship.

Just heard one of the ships in the Antarctic has been sunk by the Japanese. It's the small fast ship but until I hear from my son, we are on tenterhooks.