A Celebrity Visitor

I had Celebrity Quilter, Matt Wilding, staying with me this week as he was teaching his tessellated heart bag at Quilt Direct. He was a model guest, bringing shortbread hearts for me and snacks for Nessie. He decided to do a little shopping of his own and picked out lots of Grunge fabrics for his next top secret entry to FoQ. We were both delighted to learn that each of us enjoy going to bed around 9pm so I have invited him to stay with me again for his next workshop in February. 

We actually had a wee flurry of snow this week. It came down in the town for about 3 minutes then melted. It was far worse on the moors and surprisingly cold for 48 hours but by the weekend it was mild and wet again. 

My DIY projects this week included putting up cast iron corbel shelves. They were carefully measured and levelled but because they are really naff quality, the shelves tilt upwards and candles slope oddly as if on a ship. Instead I will put dangly plants on them. I have a painted chest of drawers that I got on FB marketplace but I have never liked them grey so I slapped blue paint on the side that I can see and the drawers so now I think they look much nicer. 

I visited Mel in Looe and stayed overnight. We were meant to do lots of sewing and play with air drying clay. As usual, we mostly nattered but I did manage to give her a bit of a tutorial on her sewing machine covering free motion quilting, then how to use the buttonhole attachment and zip foot. In return I did not have to cook or wash up and Nessie told Mel’s husband that she never gets fed.