Still Here

Just in case you were wondering whether I'd falled off the face of the earth... I did in fact survive the second week of the holidays and two whole weeks back at work/school.

I made progress with my log cabin quilt... finishing the striped back, basting and starting the long process of quilting such a big beast.  But wait, I'm getting ahead of myself... somewhere along the line you wonder what sort of quilting you are going to do... all those possibilities... so after basting:

I used thin clear plastic sheets (like what you used to use on overhead projectors) and a permanent marker to audition various designs - this proved my idea of a square spiral over the log cabins and various spirals in the background would work:

After quilting:

The thread - a perfect combination of colours:

Organic straight lines (very organic!):

Auditioning a background thread:

Yip - this one is a match:

It's all starting to come together... about half way so far:

From the back:

In other news... the kids had school photos in the first week back at school.  Since we are watching our budget (and almost had a heart attack after reading the prices of the available photo packages), I decided to only buy the class photos this year, and have our own photo shoot after school.  This was one of the out-takes:

But I did get some pretty nice ones too!

And in Swoon news... managed to squeeze in the final piecing of Block 5 before the end of July.  Rock on Block 6.