January with a NSFW tail...

Perhaps not the biggest list of makes for a month, but for me... I'm pretty pleased!  The blocks were the most fun, I was getting quite carried away. 

Other than that I've been stitching...  

Leanne of She Can Quilt is one of my favourite bloggers.  Having met her in London I can say she is such a lovely, calming, straight forward person - all around us was chaos and an absolute racket of noise, but chatting to Leanne was just so lovely all of that just faded away.  I enjoy reading Leanne's blog too, as her work is just awesome.  Her improv and her work with solids especially inspire me.  And I'm Scottish, saying something "inspires me" still makes me feel uncomfortable...  Ach, she's no bad.  Phew that's better.  Anyway...  Leanne said she was making a wall hanging with ways to say NO.  I asked if I could contribute a Scottish one.  She seemed keen...  (she hasn't seen it yet!!!)  Now the Scottish No is either no, naw, or nut.  So I elaborated a little and did the equivalent of "no way".    Its sweary.  Of course.   

I chose a flowing font and chose to do it in white because I didn't want this to look harsh.  I am not speaking for everyone in Scotland obviously, but in my opinion we / some of us / I swear quite a lot, and a lot of the time it is not actually said in any kind of harsh tone.  For instance, this would be more commonly used in situations where the implications of this response lie more along the lines of "No, not likely, and you're a little bit cheeky to ask".  I was going to do one that said "no on yer nellie" which is the same thing more or less, but apparently "not on your nelly" could be Scottish or Cockney!   Ah'm no havin that.

Looking at it on the photo I'm disappointed in the doodles... I had some super sweet pastel colours so I thought a little bit of doodling round the edges would be fun.  I did draw it out first, and in marker they looked enough.  However they seem to be disappearing and look a bit like an afterthought, which they were not....  Oh well, Leanne, feel free to ditch it!!

I certainly enjoyed it.  I'm working on another already.  In fact, I'm gathering quite the list of profanities and inanities...  Really, I'm surprised how easily they come to me......

It's not often I manage to get a post done on the first of the month so I'm pleased I get the chance to link up to Lily's Quilts Fresh Sewing Day.  Have a look there yourself!