Snail trail

Butterfly button

Buttons!

I have been admiring a wall hanging quilt by Lynette Anderson from her book Country Cottage quilting called Garden Scenes Quilt . She uses some hand painted buttons to embellish the design - I haven't been able to find any in the web so having been inspired I decided to design my own quilt with a garden theme and have a go at making my own buttons from Fimo Soft clay. Now I've never made a quilt from start to finish before and have never used Fimo but here goes ....

Work in progress - next tea cosy underway

Stripes tea Cosy

I made my sister this knitted teacosy for her birthday, she loves it and I  and have received a commission for
another in slightly different colours

We Three Ships

We Three Ships

I recently joined Shropshire Quilters http://www.shropshirequilters.org/ and am really enjoying their monthly talks, The work some of the members do is really inspirational. If you are keen on learning how to quilt I would strongly recommend joining a local group. they often run workshop which helps to learn new techniques.
A coupe of months ago I went to a workshop on stained glass window quilting and am working on
We Three Ships - here's a picture of it so far,