My little helper

Since there's a lot of snow and a bit cold outside, the cat of the house does not go out more than she absolutely has to...
Instead she stays inside and spends most of her time embellishing the kitchen table, piles of clean clothes (never dirty clothes), the living room coach etc, with herself... or as in this case: my ironing board with strips that she thought needed some more pressing... or maybe she put herself there just because she knew I was heading for them...



I haven't done as much sewing as I planned these few days... but I'm getting there... and I do have several projects in my head, but have promised myself to finsih at least three of the ones I'm working on before I can even begin cutting for the new ones...
That will be:
One quilt with just 9-pacth blocks in various batiks (the ones underneath the cat)
Two small bags
One tote bag

Hmm... that counts to four... so I suppose I have four things to finish before I can start another one... we'll see how well that goes!

Unexpected visit

This Wednesday I got a call from a friend who was supposed to be on her way to Ireland with her boyfriend... but due to an old passport (and no time to get an emergency one) she had to stay at home... so she called me and asked if she could spend a couple of days with her sewing machine at my place... which of course she could!

On Friday morning we decided to take som pictures of two of my most recent quilts out in the snow, in front of our house...


And the colours really show against the white snow...



But the best picture is the last one I took... just for fun. It's Ella wrapped in one of the quilts, smiling from ear to ear and the snow flakes dancing around her. The photo almost looks manipulated... black and white in the background and she and the quilt in full colour!