Today was a miserable good and grey day. A good enough reason to not venture out of the house but stay in and make more progress. I finished off the needlepoint cushion cover I started last year at about this time 
It is now on stretcher bars becoming square again. I can’t work with frames because I like to curl up in a chair and sew. So the finished object is almost always nowhere near square and needs the spray water treatment. I’ll try to get a photo when the light is better.
Well a day has gone by since I started this post. I was doing my needlepoint whilst watching the New Years Concert from Vienna yesterday. It has become quite a tradition for us to watch it when we are at home. This year Daniel Barenboim was conducting.
I spent some time in the afternoon on the folding vase. First of all I added some finishing touches to the exterior fabric.
When I was ready to start making my quilt sandwich I was a bit stumped to begin with because the pelmet vilene was being a nuisance. It had been rolled up in a fairly tight roll and was refusing to lie flat. In the end I decided to iron the interior fabric onto it and hope that helped. Luckily the heat and steam was enough to flatten it so that I was able to start quilting. I first sewed in the folding lines as I had done a bit of experimenting on a spare piece of pelmet vilene and decided that the sewing line acted rather like scoring cardboard. I hope it will give nice clean folds. Then I did a bit of outline quilting around some of the shapes. I used monofilament thread for this as it is all with the aim of securing the 3 layers together ready for the quilting as part of the design.
It is actually quite tricky getting the thing under the needle sometimes. Having successfully flattened out the vilene I then had to start rolling it up again! How’s that for perverse.
I hope to get some more done today. My goal is to have completed the vase before I go back to work on Monday. It’s looking achievable now.
