Another Week ...

..has flown by! It has been a beautiful one though with lots of sun. Hopefully Mondays frost will be the last although you never can tell here - its always possible up until the middle of May - but fingers crossed!

More decorating this week - the turn of my sewing 'room' which technically is an alcove in a corridor! So it had to be done in two parts - first up my desk alcove.

As the desk is wider than the doors - I built it from a flatpack in situ! - it has to become an obstacle course in the middle of the corridor while I paint the walls behind it.

Then when that is all back in place comes the mamoth task of moving everything from the bookshelves.

And it takes an awful lot longer to put it back afterwards! Anyway, all done now - I am moving on to the bathroom next week.

So for relaxation I have been working on my poppy panel. The applique is all done now and it is ready to layer up and quilt.

I am very happy with this - a shame the vibrancy of the leaf fabrics is not showing up in my photograph though. Well I think I might just get on with layering it up now - have a good week everyone.

June FNSI

June already and what has happened to the weather! It just seems to keep raining here and the garden is soggy but growing like mad.
I have taken the opportunity to do a bit of decorating. Some of you will have seen pictures of my 'studio' before. It is in fact an alcove in a corridor, so tiny. My desk is too big to get through the doorways - I built it in there and it is sort of shoe horned in place along with the tall chest of drawers where my computer sits. So it has not been moved in many a year! I decided that it was about time that the window and the wall behind were painted so on Thursday I moved everything except the desk into the adjacent dining room and pulled the desk back as far as it would go. I cleaned everything down and undercoated. So on Friday I spent the morning painting the walls and glossing the window. Of course putting everything back took so much longer as it needed sorting and reorganising plus I wanted to reline the drawers so they had to be emptied and tidied. By the end of the afternoon everything was back in place and looking clean and tidy.

So it was pleasant to sit and stitch for a while yesterday evening and here is a peek at what I was doing.

Many thanks for hosting us again Wendy - pop over to Sugarlane Designs to see what everyone else was doing.
Have a great weekend.