That is a great intro Carol, love the dragon I can give it a home if you like. Looking forward to your next one.

What great work you have show us here Carol! I love all the threads in the header pic.

A very interesting journey you have had! We’re you working while doing both those C&G courses? I did a C&G Further Adult Education Teaching Certificate and lectured one day a week at the same time and found it hard work! Where did you do your Sketchbook course? I would love to do that!

Wow Carol, Fantastic first blog and your Dragon is just stunning.

Gorgeous work Carol.:)

Wow. Love these quilts!

Your enthusiasm comes through, so inspirational. Doing two C&Gs at once. Amazing.

What beautiful quilts Carol. So lovely and bright. Enjoyed reading your blog. Look forward to the next one. X

Beautiful work!

Finally I have found you and my goodness this is absolutely gorgeous absolutely wowsa. I would love to do something like this with my art, putting it into fabric and embroidery and scarily using my Pfaff expression 4.00. I put it away because I was scared of it like a lot of things xx I’m so glad I found you xx

Great blog Carol – looking forward to your next one….

When I first saw your dragon I thought it was amazing but I can see the detail clearly of this photo so have now decided it’s fabulous! Congratulations on doing 2 C & G diplomas at the same time, you must have worked so very hard.

No wonder you are so good Carol…. that’s a lot of certificates you have !

Good luck settling in and sorting out your craft room. We moved to a new area when we retired and had to build a small extension so I could have a craft room but I still have quite a lot of fabric stored in bedroom cupboards!

Love Pickering and Yorkshire generally! I feel better when I realise that other people have what I think of as the magpie approach to quilting – gets lots of lovely fabric together, start something that really appeals – but oh, look, that looks lovely, too, so I’ll have a go at that as well! Hopeless! 2018 has got to be my year to finish everything I’ve already started!

Hiya, it’ll be great to follow your journey as you’re such a fun and creative person, Lx

Hi Rebecca, enjoy your blogging, looking forward to your pictures of stunning scenery and your makes and take on life with Lola x

I would love to come to Wales one time.

Wow! That is a lot of WIPs, I am seriously impressed 🙂

But this means you can’t start any new projects!

I hate to think how many I have if I went through my WIP box. Although I call them UFO’s Unfinished Fabric Obsessions.

I just started jotting down all my WIPs yesterday …. at least then you know what you’ve got!! Good luck with working through them and hopefully get some ticked off that list 🙂

I really like your idea of hat to pick the month’s WIP out from. I can see that might work for me too. I have some projects that would benefit from some input too! Good luck! Off to write my list!

I like your WIP strategy – might try something like that myself

I love this idea. At first I thought I only have two quilting ufo’s but then remembered my sewing, dressmaking, recycling and knitting projects still to be finished. I’ve got loads – going to write my list today. Thanks for the idea xx

Hi Sharon, what number did you pick for January ? Dying to know lol. My 2018 NYR is to ‘Finish what I’ve Started’, and for me – although the list is long – I may only finish two or three projects this year as they are all quite big projects.