On the go

I have so many projects on the go it is making me stressed.

I don't know why.

I should be relaxed, all this creating.

I made this little doll.

I just had to, I already had one but I gave it away

so I needed another.

I used my old kimono fabric for her body, kimono lining for her dress 

and darning wool for her hair.

Who darns anyway? Me!

You know when you have finished a quilt and you have off-cuts of batting from the edges?

I hate wasting things: 

so I cut it into tiny pieces and used it for stuffing.

She's all cotton.

 

 Just as Spring seems to be breaking out I finished my gloves.

I needed black ones.

I use old tortoise-shell knitting needles (size 13) but one snapped

so I had to change to another pair (bamboo) 

but I think they may have been a bit bigger.

I am the only one who knows....

 And I finished this as well.

It has been on the go for quite some time...

I had hand quilted the pieced blocks and was going to use a stencil to mark a pattern on the plain block.

I tried many different pencils and markers

(and they don't let you try before you buy)

and none showed up sufficiently well over the fabric pattern.

In the end I have quilted around the flowers

and I quite like that embossed sort of look.

DONE.

I am quite pleased with myself.

Now only a couple of hundered other UFOs.