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  I've just completed the last fabric postcard as part of my challenge to produce one per day for the 31 days of May.  Today's effort was based on the zero waste idea of using up every tiny scrap.  Even these little shavings from where I've levelled up edges of scrappy blocks with a rotary cutter and ruler.  Before I show you the finished textile piece, I thought I'd do a final here-they-all-are blog post.  So you can see the progression throughout the month.  Right, here we go.  1st May, the Klimt one. The sea and sky one. The tomato red and mint green one. The one with Neapolitan ice cream colours. The one recalling Janey Forgan's 'Liberty Jack' quilt. The one with the black velvet line The vaguely dissatisfying one.  A.k.a. the 'meh!' one. The one that reminds me I intend to make a winter quilt.   The one with curves. The one with a pear. The one with little pockets for feathers and seed-heads and Mother Nature's treasures. The one wh...

Every time I walk outside and nose around the garden something new's come into flower.  This - iris? - is a beauty.  Sadly, there aren't too many alliums, but maybe more will pop up in early June.   This poppy's not shy and retiring, is she?  The sage is flowering too.  (Sorry, not the greatest photo, is it?) Here are some chives with their purple poms poms!  And these blooms are pretty in pink.   This is a cistus, the plant bought a year or two ago from Wilko, I think. It's been growing happily, but this is the first time it's flowered.   For part of my Bank Holiday Monday I made yet one more of my fabric postcards.  I hadn't a clue what to make, and was staring blankly at the scraps bin when I had the idea.  The scraps bin is where the teeny, tiny bits of material and lengths of tangled thread end up, before they get re-purposed as cushion filling.  I grabbed a handful of straggly bits and a glue stick, plus my 6 x ...

It's a long Bank Holiday weekend, and the sunshine is still hanging around.  I swear when I was a kid every Bank Holiday weekend was soaking wet, all rain clouds and hanging around indoors ... Here's a quick round-up of the latest fabric postcards I've made.  Saturday's began with a plain dark blue background with a couple of added inserts in purple and a punchy pink.   I kept stitching into it, enjoying the perfectly imperfect crosses and lines I made.   Another day of my soon-to-end challenge completed.  Once again I've used the cover of this quilt book by Maria Shell as a background.   Sunday's postcard is a play on a muted colour palette and straight lines.   Progress was made.   I sat outside, enjoying a peaceful morning sewing by hand, listening to bird song and watching the sparrows sipping water from the makeshift bird bath.   And again, this time against a different background.   Apart from cra...