Distraction from tapestry

 Well, I thought I'd try something simpler, that requires less sitting still than the tapestry does. 

I have had a book by Ricky Timms for ages and got it out recently, thinking to have a play.

 I am not quite sure how big it will be or what I will do with it. I am hoping for a baby quilt size as there is a baby due in March that I could give it to. If it works out. 

I went out and bought some fabric a week or so before Christmas but haven't really looked at it. Today I did - decided that I don't think it will work, especially not for my first attempt. 

I found a couple of metres of dyed fabric that I must have bought a while ago, totally forgot that I have it. 

I read the instructions, had to read them two or three times, to get my head around them. I have cut the pieces for the first lot of sewing. 

I started sewing, then realised that I had done the first one right, the second one wrong! Aargh!! It is now pulled out and awaiting my return to the sewing machine. Seeing I haven't used it in quite a while, I will leave it for tomorrow, hope to get a good night's sleep and start afresh tomorrow. 

I shouldn't be surprised, I do have an issue, occasionally, with orientation of shapes. I remember one of the first quilts I made, going to regular classes, I  turned the shapes around and got them in the wrong orientations. I often have trouble with that sort of thing. So I'll try to be patient and start again tomorrow.