First Day at Sea

The quilt we're doing:
Tropical Waves

First full day at sea, and a quilting class to enjoy at the same time. We are slowly learning our way around the ship, thank goodness. Sea has been very calm until this evening, and now the ship is banging and crashing through the water, and we walk like drunks down the corridors.

Another great quilt:
Tropical Flowers

Sylvia Pippen teaches sashiko (Japanese decorative stitching) and our lesson today was for a wall hanging called “Tropical Waves.” Both Tanis and I are taking the class, and enjoying it hugely. Sylvia's luggage was sent to Manila by mistake (She hopes that it catches up with her tomorrow in Hobart, Tasmania.), so we could not see any large quilts, but she did have some wonderful examples of small quilts which were in her carry-on---rather than clothes.

Tracing the design

Prepared cloth

Starting to stitch sashiko

Small fish for applique

Beef medallions

Looking down into
the Grand Atrium

Captain's Welcome Champagne Cocktail Party was this evening, which was a formal evening. After a dinner (great beef medallion, med rare), Tanis and I went to see the stage show, and then went to bed (except for me, working on my blog).