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Welcome to the weekend

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...