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Tweet (looking gorgeous in Urban Chiks 1974) Isn’t it funny how when you look at a quilt you may see one thing, and then later it becomes something else entirely. When I began measuring and cutting my squares to make a 36 inch Square Deal, all I could see was half square triangles. Then I [...]
Tweet I love painting – it’s certainly not a talent – but sometimes for Grandad’s birthday, I pick up the paintbrush and paint and set to work. Grandad is very family-history oriented – so the paintings always reflect something from his life or past – which is maybe why I’m always pleased with these canvasses [...]
Tweet You know what happens to those! They go wildly astray. Friday turned from a scheduled stitchy-Jacob’s Ladder day into a “dear friend needs a movie and lunch” day, followed by a “goodness there’s a spare ticket to the Queensland Theatre Company’s production of The Importance of Being Ernest” day. There was a wee bit [...]
Tweet Still smitten with creating my little quilt wall! So on a bleak and blustery afternoon, take 4 fat quarters and a small cup of coffee … Add an extra light blue if it’s looking heavier than expected … Avoid the furry pedal – it doesn’t work so well … Ooh – nice! I’ve always [...]
Tweet In the soft scenes of youth when cares are small and few I’ll show to others of my age what busy hands can do. Henrietta Moseley Thompson Feb. 1830 No, I’m not being pompous – that’s what the binding for the little churn dash quilt says :-) I’ve dropped the daughter at school, am [...]
Tweet I know I wasn’t defeated by an empty bobbin last week whilst sewing in the dark. But when I felt the bobbin give way a few minutes ago – well, I just don’t have the energy to wind it again … and there’s dishes to be washed, showers to be had, and I need [...]
Tweet Righto – the blocks are set – after a bit of indecision. This was my initial impulse – alternate – pink/green, purple/orange, pink/green, purple/orange and so on so forth – but because of the limited size, this layout made the purple/orange blocks look like an afterthought. So then it was this – and this [...]
Tweet And I’ve collected Abigail from school, visited the market for tonight’s dinner ingredients and am back at the sewing machine. Well, after retrieving all my green and pink half square triangles from whence they had been blown in the build up to this evening’s storm. Sew … sew … sew … I’m besotted with [...]
Tweet … the orange and purple blocks are finished and it’s time to collect Abigail from school. (and the pink and green half square triangles are done – I think we may get there!)
Tweet Is it possible for Lily to start and finish a project in a day? Hmmmm … that would be contrary to her whole way of being – but hey! I thought it might be fun :-) After looking at Lucy’s beautiful quilts yesterday, I am made to keen to make something that looks like [...]
Tweet Yes it’s me again! I’m just so tickled by the photos I took this afternoon of the tomtens romping through the back garden, I just had to share some … They were very keen to get downstairs and play – even though their stuffing was still poking out! They quickly lined themselves up to [...]
Tweet What-ho Sheila! There are tomtens in that cottage! Goodness George, you’re right! And there’s more here! Ooooh Sheila …. there’s even one sleeping in the garden! What kind of place is this George!