Sandra finish

Look what Sandra finished, isn't it lovely?

Now that's better!

Ok, changed the thread colour to a cream on Traceys advice and what a difference!  Was trying to hard with the red I think, much as I loved the Magnifico thread.  Sticking with the mussels, and then some wavey lines. Am really pleased with it, its not brilliant but it is getting better all the time. 

My phone keeps deleting all my photos for some reason, so I lost all my photos from the jelly roll race day unfortunately.  Oh well, we may just have to do it again!

Winner.

So Lorinda was the winner of our jelly roll race, not sure of the exact time but it was roughly an hour and a half.  We had a great day, will post more quilt tops when I can figure out how to down load photos from my phone to the computer!

Let's try again!

Jelly roll race day!

What a hive of activity.

I know!

Yes I do know that the picture doesn't show feathers! I haven't lost it completely you know.  I was just trying another option, and I wasn't happy with that one either so that had to come out too.  Any  suggestions are welcome....Pp

That stitch ripper says it all.

Well.....its not going well!  I have wasted an afternoon completely.  I can do feathers, I can - really!  But I have ripped out two lots this afternoon, and that's no easy thing.  Maybe I am being too hard on my self, we never do that do we??  I think my problem is not that I can't do feathers, its more the restriction of the throat space.  To complete the circle of feathers I have to move the quilt backwards and forwards and that is not conducive to maintaining a flow at all.  May have to have rethink about the design.  Back to the drawing board.  Oh, the thread is great to sew with but not to unpick!  Will talk more about it when I am not quite so fed up with my efforts.