Vireya's Blog

The builder and plumber turned up this morning and of course the builder decided that the leaking pipe is not a warranty issue. Of course! ...

I've finished quilting my temperature year quilt. Hooray! Now for the binding: I had planned to use the one on the right, with a...

Lots of back and forward squiggling going on here: I've quilted about half of the background between the hexie rosettes.

Today was the temperature quilt's turn to be sandwiched: It is much smaller than the last one , so hopefully will be quickly quilted....

The third quilt top completed in four days, and another dash out to the clothesline between wind and rain to get a photo. The real colour...

Yesterday I finished assembling my cut-down "Sew Many Strips" quilt, but I didn't get the chance to photograph it until this a...

At Sit and Sew today I got the heading traced for my temperature quilt: First letter stitched: By the end of the day: I think this ...

On Monday it will be two years since I started my temperature quilt, and next Saturday it will be a year since I got to the end of it. So it...

At a sit and sew day today I started stitching the temperature scale for my year quilt: And then surprised myself by getting the whole t...

Here is 53 weeks of top temperatures: A reminder of the colour scheme, with the counts of days:    45.1 and over     black            ...

Well the last stitch joining hexagons together: After this I did appliqué this rosette down, completing the final week of my year quilt. ...

This is it! The final temperature rosette: Not at all sewn together yet; that will happen at a sit and sew day tomorrow. Here's this...

Can you believe it? The 52nd week of my year quilt. And every day was aqua: 25/05/2018    13.8    aqua/teal 24/05/2018    11.5    aqu...

Today a group of quilting friends took a trip down to Torquay to visit Jen Kingwell 's shop, Amitié. We sat and sewed, ate lunch from...

This is week 50 of my temperature-based year quit: You will notice there are no warm colours this week. Perhaps we have seen the last of ...

Another week that hasn't been sewn together yet: I've been busy quilting charity quilts this week, but I will have to take some ...

I think it is a while since I showed my full year quilt rather than just the weekly rosette. The completion of the 7th row is a good time to...

This week started with a taste of what is to come (Saturday was cold and wintry), but ended with beautiful sunny days: 20/04/2018    23...

This was a week of summer temperatures. Looking at the weather forecast I thought we might even have a red day or two. Red like the leaves...