Calendar Quiltlets and A Perfect Winter Day

These are my January and February qultlets for our BQL 2009 Calendar Challenge. January colours were from a walk beside the loch on a very frosty January day with the frozen loch, blue sky, and the reeds in their winter colours. The design ( which was done in raw edged applique and is the given design) reminded me of trapped air under the ice.

February's given design is a "stitch and flip"method on a calico foundation cut in a triangles. My colour choice is the sight of the snowdrops coming through the woodland floor------so greens and white and a mottled brown. I have heavily FMQed it with a silver thread to remind me of frost------which we have had such a lot of this winter!

Today was one of these perfect winter days with the snow still lying in pockets in the fields, gardens and around the loch, wall-to-wall sunshine and blue sky and crisp clear air. At the loch, which is well frozen, the water fowl were close in to the edge in a patch of clear water and you could see the wonderful black and white markings on the Golden Eyed ducks as well as the Tufted ducks------did I have a camera? Unfortunately not, but I did think a quilt could be brewing in my mind with Golden Eyes as a theme!!

I am almost finished my "S is for Spring" stumpwork embroidery for the SWRI Regional Day, and my mind is now turning to the design for the invitation to a "Carnival". It is such a long time since I did any Calligraphy that I am practising a little every day-----I am actually hoping I can do the script with a computer font but I am waiting to see if that is "permitted"----more of that in due course.