Saturday, 3 February 2007

Why it is over a month between bloggs......


I mentioned that finding time to sew can be a difficulty.... I'll start with the good news. Yes I got some sewing done in the holidays. Not a lot, but some!
So here is the first block of the 2007 Mystery Seasons Quilt. It is Summer. The colours are not reproduced faithfully, but you get the drift of it!

This year I have blanket stit
ched the sample to make it a bit easier for me. I am not sure that I save time in the actual stitching, but having it all assembled ready to stitch is more convenient than all the bits I am accustomed to carrying for needle turn.

However, That is not much to show for a month and half of silence on the blogging front!

What really kept me busy was packing up and moving a craft store. Boy oh boy. That is a job I don't want to do again as long as I live! However, it is all done to a basic level. Still room for some reorganising and improvement, but we all felt well satisfied when we got the new Belconnen store open.

So here we are.... New bright yellow front and yellow and orange interior. Corporate colours....bright and cheerful. A bit of a challenge to find quilts that will cooperate with an orange backdrop but we found some! It was also a bit of a challenge actually squeezing all the old stock, fittings and odds and ends into the new shop. Now to get all the staff and customers used to all the changes....

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Welcome Lidlfish, where did mountaingoat go :) lovely shop, like to visit some day. sheilaC

Anonymous said...

Will definitely put your shop on my list for a visit to Canberra planned for 2008! Trisha (SCQ)

Helen said...

Looks very cool. Very Amy Butler type colours. Good luck for the new location.

aykayem said...

I finally fell over this blog ... webrings ARE useful after all ;-)
... I have dropped in to the new shop twice ... but each time I was in a hurry and didn't have much time to look around, and I had one or the other of my teenage kids with me ...
btw - I like the blog ... and who cares if your posts are long? - if you think any of yours are too long, then you should see some of mine!
(and also - I sometimes go a lot more than one month between postings to my blog!)
Andrea,
disorganised in Dunlop