Today’s’ theme for the Friday Photo Challenge organised by Postcard from Gibraltar should be fairly easy for me as it’s purple, my favourite colour! I have purple in the garden, in our home and in my wardrobe…so a bit of a warning, I have LOTS of purple photos!!

I have lots of purple flowers in the garden, many in my Amber and Amethyst garden.

This is  my current Travelling Sketchbook for the Embroiderers Guild, the cover embroidery is one I stitched at the Knitting and Stitching show a couple of years ago on the Rowandean stand. The wool embroidery was from a mini workshop held at my Embroiderers Guild.

My pride and joy!! This is my Down the Rabbit Hole quilt wilst it was being pieced, I’m now hand quilting it. The quilt is in a lovely palette of soft purples and greens.

Heln wanted a colourful elephant quilt last year, so there were a lot of purples, pinks and blues. The elephants did look cute!

My Flower Lattice (my other pride and joy!!)  also include some purple stitching, the diamond with hydrangeas and wisteria was one of my favourites.

This chair is where I sit to hand quilt my Down the Rabbit Hole quilt. I went to an upholstery class about fifteen years ago and this was the last item I tackled. It was an old chair left in the house when we bought it, very shabby but very comfortable. I stripped it down to the frame, padded it with horsehair and recovered it in a gorgeous plum fabric. I still love it.

Catbells…I do seem to squeeze Catbells into an awful lot of these photo challenges! These were the embroideries I stitched for the Sisterhood of the Travelling Sketchbook which travelled the world for it’s entries.

I seem to have made a few purple quilts too! These are ones I gave as presents, though I’m collecting them back at the moment as I’ve a talk to do at my Embroiderers Guild in November about my quilts, it was quite scary to count up just how many I’ve made over the years!!

The Apothecary Cat Quilt

My Secret Garden

Rachel’s Quilt

Jelly Roll Race

A few from my wardrobe in various shades of purple.

My sewing room, I have to admit it hasn’t looked this tidy since, in fact my daughter just looked over my shoulder and laughed, she said ‘ Is that what it looks like when it’s tidy!!’

So there’s my 50 shades of purple! Do follow the link to Postcard from Gibraltar to see lots more purple.