Finishing off and a New Start

I have been working on keeping warm this winter.  The first of my finished items for winter is this little crochet knee rug..

  I first saw this last year when I was on holiday, it was featured in 'Country Homes and Interiors' but I  really could not justify making another full size blanket for a double bed, so I thought about it for a few months and decided that a lap rug would be the compromise.  Its been a nice project, and  I have a bit of yarn left over, so might play some more if something crossed my path.

The other big project has been the quilt that I did as a 'Round Robin' that travelled to Scotland then across to America... I spent last weekend (and a bit) quilting this huge quilt.  As you can see I don't have the luxury of a long arm quilter just my trusty Pfaff, also my work area just was not big enough, so I moved into the kitchen.  Phew! it was a bit of a mission, but got there in the end.

Then all there was to do was make the binding....

 All done, but you can't see the finished quilt until I have finished redecorating the bedroom this is going into, but it is finished...Yeah!!!

This is the bedroom that the new quilt is going in, but as you can see the colours just would not go,

So off to the hardware store to get some tester pots

 Actually I am not as brave as I thought I might be...

The darker colour was just too funky for us, so we have chosen to go with the lighter Aqua on the wall behind the bed, and white for the rest of the walls..... so we will see how this turns out

So I might be gone a while........ not too long I hope as I hate the mess.

Hope to see you soon with pics of the new room including the quilt.