Fabrics From Half a World Away

Last night I sat and watched TV and finished hand sewing the binding onto Stained Down Under (which should really be known as The Australian Quilt)  it has taken a year to finish as it spent several months in the I'm-fed-up-with-this-quilt box, but I'm really pleased its finished - I love it!

HUGE Thank You to Sarah who came up with the design and encouraged and cajoled several of us to make our own versions, and to my lovely Sister in Law, Lisa, who took me to every fabric shop within a 100 mile radius of their home in Sydney, and waited patiently while I bought the fabrics.

This quilt is now on the sofa waiting for me to finish on the computer and snuggle under it watching something decent on TV.

I was finishing the binding while I was watching the Arctic Ice Hotel being built on Channel 5.  I've seen it before but I was especially interested in how the workers were dressed, how they were keeping warm  . . . next month himself and I are off to the Arctic circle, and will then have 6 nights on this ship

sailing down the west coast of Norway.  I'm slightly excited!