Home and back to reality....

Symposium 2015 has finished and I have returned home, said goodbye to my friend Leeann until we see each other next and into catch up mode in the garden especially the kitchen garden. The tomatoes and zucchini have gone berserk and we are enjoying dishes containing ingredients grown by ourselves including garlic, onions, celery, cucumber, herbs, sweet corn and potatoes along with the tomatoes, zucchini and the odd capsicum - they aren't in full production mode yet.

Now that the garden is producing nicely I need to be getting more productive with the quilting too. I thoroughly enjoyed my class at Symposium with Sheila Christensen and I think I have finally got the rocking motion. There were several hand quilters in the class and they seriously out produced us new comers to hand quilting but I think eventually we might give them a run for their money.

I am happy with what I did and the progress that I made and my stitches did become more even and smaller in size, although I am not wanting my stitches too small or to me that defeats the purpose of big stitch quilting - I want it to be an accent or feature where I use it. That is the plan at this stage anyway.

http://livingcolourtextiles.com/2015/01/living-colour-at-quilt-symposium-manawatu/. 

This is my sample from the class, although I have continued with the curved lines and have managed to get my stitches a little smaller but I think I will stop there.

Loved this technique, you do your stitching and then colour in with inks. Just like colouring in when we were kids.