The Purple End

This bit goes at the bottom end to square it off. Still no digital camera so having to make do with the mobile! Next I will be moving on to the bottom right hand corner which is the purple-red one, blending into pinkish at the top. I have found it easier to join ieach section separately, then join it to the main quilt as it is getting quite big now

Progress again

I've not done much over the summer; I got sidetracked reading Harry Potter from begining to end and seemed to find other things to do in the evening. And it was slightly tedious doing nothing but black diamonds! I still need to do more but I have just started stitching some coloured stars together. I have started with the purple ones which will go at the bottom of the quilt. And I have no digital camera atm so will have to make do with the camera phone. The photo shows all 250-odd black diamonds I have done

Continuation

Finally managed to get some black silk which is similar to the material I have already used. John Lewis in Peterborough had some but (as expected) it was not cheap -£14 per metre. I got one metre but will need about 2 more I think so I am still scouring the charity shops for blouses. No new pictures as I am just doing loads of black diamonds

The basics

Following my big spend in Stamford I had over 20 ties to cut up, wash and iron. A few days at the coast at my mother's caravan gave me a bit of spare time to do this. It takes me about 10 minutes to cut up a tie. This morning I gently washed them and have just finished ironing them. Here they are drying - a new meaning to the phrase 'Tie-Rack!'

And here is the finished Norwich City Scarf. Very soft and fluffy. I will have to wait until next season before I can wear it to a match though. Perhaps next season they may hit some consistent form!

More ties!

A trip to Stamford on Good Friday proved very productive: Lots of Charity shops and because of the Market they were open. In the first few shops ties were quite expensive - £2.50 was the cheapest for a silk tie, but I did buy a couple as they were colours I really needed. In the last shop however I was allowed to rummage through a box by the shops manager - and they were all £1! I ended up with 17 - more than I think I need but they will come in for the next one. ANd here they are, ready to be cut up, washed and ironed which will keep me busy for a while.

And this is what I have been doing when I ran short of ties. As a Norwich City supporter the colours are very significant - it was quite difficult to find this sort of wool in the right colour - usually they are only available in pastel shade, so thanks to my mother for finding this - and the wool was very cheap too! It's not very easy to knit with though -not for novices- but I am coping ok. It's not quite finished yet - I need to do another few stripes but it grows very quickly so it shouldn't take long. Unfortunately i don't think I am going to be able to wear it at a Norwich match this season - they aonly have a few home matches left and none of the dates are convenient. Next season!

Temporary halt.........

After the final round and Radials was completed I laid it all out on the kitchen floor to square it off and to see if I had enough stars. After I had decided the size and juggled a few stars - deciding which colour some of the multcoloured one were was tricky I worked out that I needed 11 more stars. So that was 11 more ties to buy, not counting the 8 I had bought that morning! Actually I had bought 9 but discovered one was not pure silk - it was labelled Myung Ju silk but it melted when burnt, as did another one which I am sure did say was silk. That meant I needed 12 more. Plus a lot more black diamonds - nearly 400! I shall probably have to buy some new silk. So the stitching has come to a halt while I complete the remaining stars, then I shall do the black ones before finally deciding which star goes where for the remaining corners, and sides

Round 4

4th round finished - another round of patterned stars, containing some yellow with other colours introduced, and plain stars forming 'spokes'