on my desk and round about

I have been working on a new quilt.

Pattern's in the Denyse Schmidt Quilt book.

A Flock Of Triangles based on a Flying Geese pattern. I have used lots of little bits of the stash and only needed to go shopping for the white!

I have decided to quilt it directly onto a beautiful cream woollen blanket that I found in the op shop a couple of years ago. So this is first for me and I don't know whether the practice is frowned upon in quilting society, but it's worth a try.

Also in a moment of blog surfing I happened upon a giveaway on the wonderfully inspiring Pepper Stitches blog. She has made some divinely rugged male be-bearded dolls. I was smitten by Folk Man. He looks JUST like my red-headed son when he wears a fake red moustache and beard (yes he HAS one!) AND as if that's not enough, my daughter's name is Pepper. So I thought I was a shoe-in to acquire Folk Man.

A random draw from the universe had him on his way to us!

And here he is!

Settling in very nicely.

Thank you Pepper/Shaz of Blogland. We love him.