Oh I do love a successful day! One hour on the treadmill (yes, sixty minutes! well, sixty two actually but who’s counting?), a couple of hours writing (Super Secret Project only discussed under The Cone of Silence) and WHACKO DIDDLY-OH stencilling on the fossil quilt that worked! I have procrastinated badly on this one. So much so that I’m now three, whoops, FOUR weeks behind schedule. Originally I planned to applique the fossil patterns on to this quilt, but then I saw a great technique for stencilling at angry chicken
But I’ve been too scared to do it! You know what a mess can be made with colour leaking under the edge of stencils, and I managed to convince myself that this would happen and paralysed myself with fear. I don’t know if it was the excercise high from the treadmill (while watching Dr Phil - got to have something to distract me from the s l o w l y ticking over stats) or just the bravado induced by self-righteousness (did I mention the sixty minute Workout?) but today was the day that I gave it a go. What a FABULOUS method! It’s so easy and works so very well. Here are some of the results…

Tomorrow is quilting day, so I hope to have it finished by
the weekend!









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April 26, 2006 at 10:38 pm
Anonymous
What a great idea! It looks fabulous and much quicker than applique.MRM
April 27, 2006 at 2:54 pm
heidi
I tried to email this reply, but it was returned to me…so I thoguht id’ post it
Kirsty,
Thanks so much for the sweet post…ive been wondering lately about who reads my
blog so its nice to hear from you! I am going to go check out yours now too!
xoxo
April 29, 2006 at 10:06 pm
Anonymous
The quilt looks great! You’re going to have to pass on the stencil technique because I also get freaked by the idea of bleeding edges! M