Better Photos

In the background of the paper piecing, I did a flower, loop, leaf combo meander.

Bit hard to tell but I did a curved feather along the floral border.

The fourpatches were quilted identically - a square scroll on two sides, and a three petal/loop thing on the other.  This was mimicing one of the designs on the large floral.

I wasn't too sure what to quilt on the little lady, so did ever decreasing echo quilting around her coat (the brown floral), and chickened out of doing anything on her dress and scarf.  I was a bit worried about all those seams!  And I quilted in a little hair detail, obviously, on her hair.

When I had to change the format of my photos previously due to them not loading onto Blogger properly, I have noticed that, well, the photos are not really all that great.  So last time I tried a different setting... which was obviously worse (and if I had of looked a bit closer I would have realised that before saving all the photos and losing the original formatting - grr).  So after taking a few more photos - I've tried the "document" setting which has a higher resolution, but lower than the original photos.  I think it takes a bit longer to load... and may result in my photos reaching their storage capacity a bit quicker.  Let me know whether you think they are better than normal - now, I don't mean the last post where the photos are terrible - but ones from before that.

Pigs and Progress

I apologise for the absolutely spastic looking photos. 

We have a new addition to our family.  One we are going to eat.  Possibly called "Little Pig", she is about 6weeks old and very cute - although not so cute when running wild in the paddock next door after escaping her pen and we needed to catch her in the pooring rain and she attacked us.  Long story!

On the sewing front, I have spent the last week playing around with some foundation paper piecing - a russian nesting doll pattern from etsy shop "BubbleStitch".  Very cute, pretty easy (although I do struggle to match up the joins when putting together sections - even though I do the pin through the seam all the way along... and pin, pin, pin).  A few rounds of borders later, using some of my newest favouritest fabric... and now I have a cot/play quilt for a friends new baby.

Also some shots of a finished Block Two of Swoon:

And an outdoor, holdey-upey shot of my Buggy Barn Courthouse Stars quilt (thanks to the husband who avoided being in the shots at all cost).

Talking about the husband, he has finished his shed and got all the council OK's.  And a parting shot of my garden - we have three raised beds which are responsible for all the produce.  The cows in the background belong to the neighbours.