Kalymnos-

Just home from a wonderful week's holiday on the Greek Island of Kalymnos. This is a very rugged island with spectacular mountains and fabulous deserted bays and coves. Hopefully get some photos onto the blog in the next couple of days.But for now, it's bedtime after a super time with good friends.

Now what does keith get up to while I'm playing at quilting? Well he rock climbs, mountain bikes and his new hobby is dry-stone walling. So he disappears into fields , regardless of the weather and builds walls-not bad for an old fellow! I'll post more photos when I find them on this pesky PC.

Then we tried out various methods for making stencils. Here you'll see experimentation with positive and negative stencilling. I used acryllic paints and cut away plastic with a soldering iron to make the stencils.

Then  I stencilled the pattern onto silk dupion using a nine patch block layout. Each block was quilted using outline quilting.

Ciity and Guilds Shape Module

 This was the the beginning of the Shape Module.

At  the end of the module all my work and samples were presented in this folder.

 This was the beginning of the art work on stencilling. We used jewellery as the source.

Mea Culpa!!!

 Oh dear, I've been a proper shocker with my blog. I just seem to have been so busy and you know what it's like- you keep saying, "I'll do it tomorrow" and something else crops up! So I now have a load of stuff I need to get on here or people will abandon me.

Putting it all together

Surprise! Surprise!

So...the next seagull challenge was to make a block with points. I decided to do prairie points -quite pleased with the result. I love it when the parcels arrive in the post and I see everyone else's work. The colours for this block were lovely to work with.