quilts
lunchbox treats and some lovely bits of fabric
Thursday, August 28th, 2008Today was Thursday, visiting grandparents day, so no time for sewing but a little window for fabric shopping and tonight we needed some emergency lunchbox treat making.
Whilst on my walk this morning, I came up with a good possibility for the sashing of the little houses - a pale grey/blue polka dot - and I [...]
spring is coming
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Spring is coming - the jasmine is frothing with divinely scented white blossoms and the jacarandas have blushed gold in preparation for their coming lilac magic.
Have you ever raised seeds in papier mache pots? I haven’t, but every time I read about this, I am sure it must be very satisfying. You make simple papier [...]
taking the tumblers for a turn
Thursday, August 21st, 2008The tumblers are all sewn together, so today I called into the patchwork store near Nanny and Grandad and picked up a nice piece for the borders. I had planned on black or chocolate - but upon viewing, that was definitely a bring on the muffled drums moment. My goodness, it was very gloomy - [...]
today was my first patchwork class
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008… a bear is nice
… an ikea catalogue is very jolly
… and flowers for Moomintroll to dance through are such bliss …
but then, a curly, sneaky thought began to lurch about in my tummy … was tonight the first of the scrappy group patchwork classes?
YES!!!!!!! And I had not finished preparing for it - [...]
quilting Beth’s Sampler
Thursday, July 31st, 2008Beth’s Sampler has to be quilted. And in keeping with this quilt’s heritage, I decided to quilt it with 1 inch apart diagonal lines. (Actually, I read that the Amish used 2 inch apart diagonal lines, so started with that and it looked hideous - definitely needed them closer.) So I started on the weekend [...]