Happy birthday dear me...

Lookie what I got for my birthday! This is a kit to make the wallhanging in the picture - it's called Jacobean Pomegranate Quilt - and I adore the fabrics with it, especially the red pomegranate print (at the bottom of the stack). It's a bit different from many of the things I make but I'm looking forward to starting it in a few weeks time, when I've cleared the current and required projects. I also got some other presents, most of them not quilting related, though I did get a magnetic pincushion, which is something I've wanted for a while. Perfect presents - you'd think I'd picked them myself - oh wait, hang on, I picked them myself - that must be it! :)


Didn't do any sewing yesterday, but did get to the promised dyeing session - I did three colour wheels, each with a different additive (one black, one grey, one brown) - this is for a project with my dyeing group to look at shades and tones and how additives affect colour - we did the colour wheels just plain, and then did them with a tsp of whatever added colour added in each step. The colours are really lovely - very rich and deep; I'll be adding a little grey or black to many of my colours from now on. The photo is a little lighter than the fabrics are in reality, but I think you can still see how rich and deep the colours are. I wish I could keep them, but I have to cut them up into swatches to share with the group - each member of the group has done a different colour wheel, with different reds, yellows & blues and in many cases added different blacks or greys to one another, so we will have lots of different variations on this theme - these swaps are really useful for exploring colours and how they work together (or don't work, in some cases). I also dyed some other pieces - a large twisted piece, a shirt, some knickers, and Olivia and Alex each did a shirt - these are still drying, so I'll photograph them later - they've all come out well - it was a fun day, even with Alex "helping".