08 January 2013

15 Minute Challenge

Don't actually know where the last week went.  I know it was stinking hot in our neck of the woods and reached a high of 44c at one stage last week.  The one saving grace is it was a dry heat and the aircon worked pretty well but it was still just foul.  Luckily the aircon in the sewing room works better than it does in the house so I escaped for a couple of hours with the dog to enjoy the refrigerated cooling.

Monday saw me return to work so it will be interesting to see if I can keep up the sewing momentum long term.

The week went like this

Wednesday - Borders on Cot Quilt
Thursday - Soul Searching
Friday - Mixed Media Play
Saturday - bit more Mixed Media play Soul Searching
Sunday - nothing
Monday - nothing
Tuesday - pieced back for cot quilt and started quilting.


 Here is the start of another Soul Searching Block.  I have just left the fabric there.  I think the bottom right corner needs a real work over and I will be replacing some of the fabrics just have to search the stash.


The green block is all stitched.




Here are the finished 2 pages from my mixed media play.    Just Be is still a work in progress.  I have one more background to work with as well.  Noisy is quite 3D the butterfly an flower stand out from the page so I am going to have to rethink how I put them all together as I don't want to crush those elements.

We have a couple of cooler days this week then the temp will be going up again but not as high as last week.  I think I will be quilting the cot quilt for most of the week and I might get out the paints again and finish my media play.  Time to head on over to Kates to see who else met the challenge this week.

6 comments:

thea said...

Love the kids quilt at the bottom of your post. such bright colors.

Leanne said...

You are so clever, I wish I could draw.

Shay said...

5 from 7 is a top effort. Im kind of hanging out for holidays so I can get some stuff done. My sewing room is vile when its hot so I havent been all that tempted to get in there of late !

Dana said...

Hi Amanda Just found your blog through a flickr picture in the dont look now group of a pillow you made (the sweetheart pillow) Im desperatly after one of the fabrics that you used. It is the one on the right with the red/pink swirls, do you have any ideas who its by to guide me in the right direction? it would be much appreciated. Dana danaandlee@hotmail.co.uk (http://drinkingfabric.blogspot.co.uk/p/finished-makes-2012.html)

Dana said...

...oops might help if i left you a link http://www.flickr.com/photos/22705795@N06/3841109735/in/pool-dontlooknow/

Kate said...

Great week on the sewing front. Last summer was really hot here, we had several weeks of 43 C+ temps. None of us wanted to go outside for any reason once it got past noon. Hope your temps cool down a bit.