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Hello all you lovely Deskers, hope all is well with you this week! It's been a case of the same old-same old here in the JanCave, sewing up a storm when it's grey and rainy outside. However we've had some lovely bright weather as well so we've been out walking on the beach too, gotta be done!

This sums up what I've been doing:

Using up stash fabric to make tote bags, string quilt squares and syringe driver bags (not shown cos I passed them on without taking a pic, doh. I did 22 in all)

I find it impossible to do completely random choices with the string quilts - I simply can't put two colours together if they don't look right, sad but true.

Each square ends up having a certain tone or colourway!

I made some bunting for the new grandson of a friend of mine who lives up in the Cairngorms:

And the spelling is right, I double checked!

Even though I stabilised the tartan fabric, it still frayed quite a bit but it looks good though. The pivot function on my machine makes sewing around the letters a breeze, so much quicker than before.

I found an YouTube artist called Hu Art, he does watercolour/zentangle mash-ups which I really like so I blew the dust off my paints etc and had a go:

I had fun and soon went off piste when following the tutorial...

Ok for a first attempt, I'd do another! 

That's it for this week, hope your crafting goes smoothly and you have fun! xxxxxxx