Down but not out!

So the next time I decide to start digging, I will have some strong words to say on the subject of backs! I am still suffering after a week, although I can now stand up and have walked up to the shops today. Sadly I still can't sit for long at the sewing machine, but I did manage to get my February JQ finished yesterday and am pleased with it. Here it is and I have uploaded it onto the Yahoo group!

I have got my March JQ planned, but there won't be time to finish it before we go off to Cornwall so it will have to wait until I get back. Seems as if there will be quite a lot of knitting done as I can't take much sewing with me! Oh well! I'm sure we will find something to do and I have decided the sun will shine and it will be warm!! OK!!!

Spring is here

All this lovely sunshine and, yes, warmth, has seduced us out into the allotment and the front garden. Until Sunday tihs resembled a bomb site, but after a few hours it now looks like this.
The down side is that after all the digging over the weekend, my first spadeful on Tuesday proved to be one spadeful too far and my back has given up the ghost! At least I can stand up straight today, but can't get far from my chair so I have been planning my next JQs while I knit! I realised that I still have two to complete before the April deadline and one not yet started and I am determined not to fall behind.
At least I have finished my latest postcard for the GWNN challenge and will be able to give it to Chris on Tuesday. I am pleased with it, but would do it differently next time. The edges are a bit ragged. Still, the mental block seems to have gone, for now at least!

Failure

This is my latest attempt at a postcard. A lovely sunset on a lovely Cornish beach on Christmas Eve which I thought would just make a lovely little postcard. I am trying raw edge applique, but quite forgot about using Bondaweb so the pieces moved around. Then my attempt at free machine embroidery didn't work. My metallic thread broke and try as I might I just couldn't get the tension adjusted to get the bobbin thread to come through for whip stitch! Am I downhearted? I'll say!

So It's back to the drawing board once again. I did think that the lovely sunshine we've had for the last few days might just spur on the creative juices. Well you never know it's only Tuesday!

I think the answer is to just do it and not think about it too much. So Stop blogging and get sewing! Now! OK!!!

Lazy days!

Where does the time go? I have a postcard to make, three journal quilts to finish before the end of April, a challenge quilt and a party dress for Isobel. Yet.... I am not doing any of it! It has been a fairly busy week, but even so guilt is beginning to creep in and darken the soul!

But, this is the third day in a row that the sun has shone. Our seeds are germinating nicely and there are these in the garden at last.

The hellebores are beginning to get flower buds and the bulbs are beginning to show, but everything seems to be very late and reluctant to get going. I know the feeling!!!

Yesterday was Bernina club at MKC in their new premises in Dock Street. It was well attended and informative, but I came home at lunch time. Still feeling very down and not in the frame of mind to get going, I met the Postman at the gate as I got home and this arrived from Chris. Cheered me up no end!

So, I got going on the party dress and got most of it cut out ready to start sewing when I get back from class this afternoon. It's going to be very bright with pink and orange net frills and ribbons and I hope she will like it.

Just shows that after all the snow and dark cold days spring may at last be arriving!