you know how it is

 

I first heard about The Umbrella Prints Trimming Competition in March.

 

Wow I thought I'll have a go at that !

 

The idea is you buy a pack of gorgeous trimmings , make something

from them , put them up and wait for thousands of people

to repin them from pinterest as each pin counts as a vote.

 

Sounds so easy doesn't it.......

 

I stuffed around for ages and never got to it but I 

finally glued my trimmings

around little sewing spools a few weeks ago....

.....and then left them.

 

I then decided this morning I'd better do something with them

so I strung the spools onto thread with some lovely wooden beads.

 

Of course no one was home to take a photo for me so

I took one myself and you can see all my junk in the background.

 

 

Tough luck I thought .... I'll just get my entry in anyway.

So then I went to The Umbrella Prints Blog to get the address

to email my details to and discovered

 

entries closed four days ago !

 

This was all totally my own fault but I still had fun anyway.

(and I now have a pretty cool necklace)

 

Visit the pinterest board and pin your favourites and

see the talent that did get their act together in time .

 

 

and so it goes on

 

I first blathered on about attempting string piecing in January 2010.

Not to be put off I blathered again that month about the same thing .

Being very persistent I bored you again here . 

 

 

Here we are in May 2013 and I am putting the blocks together .

No square is square.

No block is the same size.

I am still not a quilter .