February 'meh'

 Feeling at a bit of a loose end this week.  I have kept going with various hobbies but not feeling the joy this week for some reason.  Partly lack of energy and partly a bit 'been there, done that, have too many now'.

I did finish the baptist fan quilting on the Fat Cat Dresden Plate quilt.  This is a relatively modern style quilt for me, but I like the colours.

I hadn't trimmed down my backing and wadding so had relatively wide margins on the quilt frame to either side of the actual quilt.  So I pulled out some fabric pieces and quilted up a few rectangles that could be used for future small projects.

The top for the Gail Pan embroidered blocks wallhanging is now completed.  I auditioned various possible border fabrics from my stash and ended up using a reproduction fabric which works well enough I think.  It was a lot of work, with all the embroidery and having to recalculate the block measurements, but I'm pleased with it, and pleased to use up some of my Tilda fabric stash. So that's gone into the quilting queue upstairs.

Once the Gail Pan top was off my sewing table, I made another small project from my handwoven fabric.  It is still feeling very risky to cut into the weaving but once again it behaved fine. This time I made a storage basket.

I finished knitting DH's day-glo hat - I'm certainly not going to lose him when we are out anywhere.  He is very pleased with it, this photo taken when it is still a bit damp from blocking but he wanted to try it on.

The papercrafting/journal group I'm in on Facebook had another free organiser printable, this time decorated with sunflowers.

I'm not getting very far with the dollshouse carpet that I started, it is really fiddly and slow to see any progress, so I'm starting to feel like I might either throw it or perhaps put it away for another time when I have more patience.  I'm cross-stitching the other border on my handtowel, and have partly woven the next mat on my loom.

I've contacted Project Linus to donate two of my quilts from 'quilt mountain' and pulled out some others unsuitable for donating, to sell on ebay.  So I need to photograph those and work up some listings.