Journal Quilt Project - Week 16

As I mentioned in my new goals list, I did manage to (just) finish my journal quilt for the week in time. I had intended to work on it on Friday, but of course, I lost Friday (although for once, I know precisely where the lost day went, which is a little comfort, lol). Oh well, these things happen!

Anyway, I decided to tackle it first thing this morning before taking Sarh to tennis and then Alex to a birthday party after lunch (my kids have far more social life than I do!). Many weeks I have a good idea what I want to do the JQ about, but this week, there wasn't anything that stood out, so I just went with my desire to use some of the Japanese fabrics I've started accumulating. I've been itching to do something with them, though no specific ideas just what, so I just made a few nine patches and sewed them together randomly. It was a nice, relaxing piece, with nothing more taxing to it than working out how I wanted to place the nine-patches.



And I got these two items in the post - the glue gun is because of the March challenge in the Textile Challenges group - not sure what I'm supposed to do with it, but it's a glue gun challenge and I didn't have one. I decided that if I could find one for under a fiver, I'd play along, and thanks to eBay, no problem. Now I just have to work out what I'm supposed to do!

The card is for the Purple Haze theme, from Priscilla.

Oddly enough, I was actually in a fabric store today and didn't buy anything - there's a new shop in Kingston, which I happened to be walking past, but although it has a nice selection of bits and pieces and lots of interesting fabric (but not quilting cotton) there wasn't anything I really needed - or even wanted. And the fact that I was trying to hold a cup of Starbucks coffee without dripping it in the shop probably helped keep me from trying to pick anything up...