My little pumpkin

These last 6 months sure have been busy! The only type of crafting I've been doing is related to this wee one so figured I would post my Halloween fun I had with Isabel.

Hand quilted fox

I was asked by Molly Shore to quilt a square that will be part of a collaboration quilt for Jenna Roebuck's baby (my pretty much niece or nephew). I believe there are twelve of us taking part, all choosing a northern Canadian animal. This was my first time quilting, and I ended up hand quilting. I watched the entire Downton Abbey series while making this fox. I think I did a pretty epic job - thanks to Periwinkle Quilting & Beyond on Broadway for their amazing selection of fabrics.

I can't wait to see the finished quilt!

Drawing birds with coloured pencils

I was home sick last Monday and instead of staring at the t.v. I decided to open up a Christmas gift I got from my partner Thomas on how to draw various types of birds with coloured pencils.

This is something I have never excelled in, or really tried to do properly before. Working with colour is hard. It takes a lot of patience with all that layering!

This little Rufous Resting took me 3 hours to complete. I drew it while listening to A Storm of Swords audio book. It was a glorious sick day. My goal is to complete each bird in this book (hopefully I will improve each time). 

Not Chantelle Berg quality, but it's pretty good for my first one.