WHOOPSY!!!!!

 Now what on earth might this be?

A little explanation about those beautiful colours first.  DH turns acrylic pens sometimes & has quite a few leftover bits & as some were residing in my fruit bowl (wonder how they got there?), I happened to mention they'd look nice stuck together.  They disappeared up to the shed & were turned into this......

A quick unpick and awl that we'd purchased at a woodworking show as a kit.

And what have they been doing over the last week?  Why unpicking of course.

What quilter doesn't know the joys of unpicking.

I'd decided to join in another QAL with my friend Joy who was doing it with a friend on FB mainly & as I don't have this social media, she was sending the instructions through as videos on my email.  I then chose to do a Christmassy one the same as Joy had decided.  The instructions got a little mixed & I'd made an error, we thought.  I'd also decided to use my stash & instead of a feature fabric, background & 2 coordinating fabrics.  Thought I'd make mine scrappy.  That wasn't going too bad until I realised I'd missed one of the steps, so Joy sent me a photo of finished quilt.  

Now this was how stupid all of this got.  I'd actually made the exact same quilt as a mystery from a book back in 2013/14 & gave it to my sister-in-law in England.

Then making it scrappy meant lots of unpicking to get the whole thing to have at least some form of cohesion, hence lots of "unstitching".  It has also been made smaller because I now didn't have enough background fabric.  All the above is what you can probably call winging it.

Not the full reveal as I'm still putting the rows together, but am now happy with how it has turned out, although it did my head in this morning.

And what do you do after a hard morning?  Why go to the cinema & see a really funny movie.

We've not been to the cinema for about 6 years, but DH fancied seeing "The War with Grandpa" & it really was worth it & I've not laughed as much in a long time.😊

Weather the last few days has been very weird, with howling wind, lots of rainy spells along with moments of sunshine & oh so cold for summer.  We even thought about lighting the woodburner.

We didn't.

OK bored you enough with my waffling, so take care, stay safe & hugs from down under.

Susan.