It's Christmas again

It feels like Christmas again, giving and receiving gifts.

I carefully prepared the draw for my little give away and my son the DJ took time out from pumping the beats to choose .....

Lisa from Misadventures in Quilting.

Please send me an email with your address and the French General is yours.

Lisa just started her blog this month and I hope that her first year is as enjoyable as mine has been. Thank you everyone for leaving all your kind comments.

My Christmas Kindle finally arrived so now I can always have lots of books to read.

My bi-monthly fabric samples from Somerset Patchwork and Quilting also arrived. This range is called Manchester by Nancy Gere for Windham fabrics. I think that lovely blue on the top will find it's way into my Civil War BOM.

Two books to add to my collection. I have wanted Lori Smith's book for a long time. It is full of gorgeous little projects and wonderful colour combinations.

I have been playing with colours and made two book marks. The hst one was foundation pieced a few years ago but I wasn't happy with the strips and put them aside. I found them recently, sewed two together, and decided that they could continue life marking the pages of books. Just because I have a kindle doesn't mean that I will forsake books altogether!

I used the foundation method to make the braid. It is darker that I would have liked but it does include a lot of my favourite fabrics. Maybe I should sort the fabrics first - light, dark and medium and work with these groups to control the dark/light element. I tried really hard to get reasonable photos but this is the best I could do.

I will keep playing around with colour and looking through blogs and books and one day the penny will drop.