Friday 13 November 2015

gloomy weather crafting

It's been wonderfully foggy and grey and gloomy lately. Also quite wet. Not great for getting the last shots of the autumn colours, but perfect for gloomy foggy walks.


Gloomy weather also is perfect quilting weather, creating cosiness is the perfect antidote to winter grumps, and when the skies are a multitude of greys then creating colour becomes important too.


The log cabin scrap quilt that I started here suddenly started to take shape once I'd finished my star quilt, and at this size was a perfect lap quilt, but I had some logs left so it was always going to get bigger.....


First I change a few blocks in the bottom right corner, as I wasn't convinced of the colours, and then I added some more rows at the side and the top.


I'm yet to decide on the colours for the top left, hence the gap. Yellows and oranges perhaps?  Or Back from green into blues again. I'm thinking probably the latter.
I'm enormously impatient to finish it now, and cuddle up in it's warm brightness on the sofa with some dvds and popcorn. 


Also bringing colour on this gloomy day. 
Doughnuts!
Gluten free doughnuts! 
All the way from London.  

Hope you have a lovely weekend, 
I'm waiting for Miss K to get home from school and then that pink doughnut's time is up! 

joining in with Silverpebble's  making winter and Jennifer's Winter project

34 comments:

  1. It's beautiful Tess! I've always wanted to make a log cabin -- I keep saying it will be the next one. I LOVE your version -- such pretty graduated colors!

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  2. Very cheerful and really lovely. Those doughnuts look delish. It's a good thing that I cannot reach through the screen, because I would pilfer one of those.
    Happy weekend.

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  3. Fabulous atmospheric photos, and a really gorgeous quilt, cleverly done. A gluten free doughnut, brilliant.I hope you have an excellent weekend. CJ xx

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  4. Fabulous quilt!!!!! Whatever colour you choose to finish it if it will be beautiful. Your first photo really is beautiful, so very atmospheric! xx

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  5. Hi Tess, thank you for joining in with my link party! Your quilt is absolutely beautiful. Wow, what a stunning design and all the colors and fabrics are just perfect. It's really impressive. It adds lots of color to a gray season, and certainly those doughnuts are looking wonderful. I hope they were great. Have a good weekend, take care.

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  6. Your quilt is absolutely gorgeous; just the thing for snuggling under and eating a doughnut or 2! xx

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    1. yes indeed. I shall have to send the hubby on a mission to collect some more, 330 miles is a reasonable distance to go for a doughnut surely xx

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  7. Beautiful foggy photo, and the quilt looks wonderful. I'd go with blues myself for that corner. Those gf donuts look amazing - I have a lot of gluten-intolerant family members who would love to get their hands on some! :)

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  8. wow wow wow what a stunning quilt!! I love it, I feel the need to make a new quilt now.......and eat gluten free doughnuts!

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    1. well you'll need a new quilt for your new house so you should start now. and have a doughnut or two x

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  9. Gorgeous. And so is the quilt...
    Ax

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  10. That's a really beautiful quilt Tess. I hope MissK enjoyed the pink doughnut. Sam x

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    1. thank you - and yes she did, we thought it was the nicest one!

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  11. Oh that quilt. It is just stunning. Wow! Enjoy your well traveled doughnuts :)

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    1. thank you, and yes they were very well travelled, they behaved nicely in their little box till we gobbled them up!

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  12. A beautiful quilt, that's going to keep you toasty this winter. I love that first photo so atmospheric. I'm joining in with Jennifer's link party too, it should keep us all motivated to get our projects finished.

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    1. thank you , just don't look too closely at the seams........

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  14. Love the contrast of your first two photos. The foggy Autumn and then the bright colours of the quilt. It is going to brighten up any Winter's day.

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  15. Oh WOWSERS it's truly a work of great beauty. I can't stop staring at it. I'm super honoured that you've joined in Tess and your photos are just the bee's wintry, possibly slightly hibernate-y knees. Thank you again xxxx

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  16. PS I'm so thrilled that you got to scoff some doughnuts x

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  17. I bloody love a doughnut. Sainsbury's jammy ones are a Friday after school treat here. The quilt is obviously fabulous.
    Leanne xx

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    1. these were tasty, but would have been so much better with jam in !

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  18. This quilt is so so lovely! Wishing you a sunny day :-)
    Amalia
    xo

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  19. Gorgeous quilt - really brightens up a dull day.

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    1. it was SO grey today, I brightened it up by finishing the top corner xxx

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  20. Oh Wow! In awe of that gorgeous quilt. Seriously beautiful X

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  21. Just wanted to say hello. I bimbled over from a comment on Hawthorn Spellweaver's blog.
    Thank you for the lovely pictures of your quilt - I've been in 'quilters block' for months and months but your super Log Cabin might just be "the" one to get me out of the fabric doldrums and back to the sewing machine :-}

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  22. That quilt is amazing! It's going to be stunning. Actually, it already is stunning. x

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  23. The quilt is looking gorgeous, and I'd be with you on the blues/greens, but I expect you might have already decided and be further along now. It's such a lovely contrast with your atmospheric gloom.

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