Archive for the ‘quilts’ Category
TweetFirst of Feb – half way between the summer (winter) solstice and autumn (spring) equinox. If you’re in the northern hemisphere, today’s the day when you think “phew! we’re halfway there!” If you’re down here with us in the southern hemisphere, you are reminded “make the most of it honey! it’s almost over! ” For [...]
Tweet Looking out the windows this morning, you’d have sworn we were holidaying deep in a valley surrounded by mountains. That’s how thick the mist was over the sea – the water had vanished and all that remained were the tips of the bay’s mirrored headlands. And it didn’t clear. We ate porridge, drank tea, [...]
TweetWe found some ridiculously cheap but very sweet spotty stripes yesterday and bought half a metre of each colour they had. Almost a lovely rainbow – just missing the yellow. The intent for this fabric was a summery quilt – Chinese Coin style with almost white sashing, and a very sweet fox fabric Abby picked [...]
TweetNow that mum’s retired and all and living by the sea where it can be *very* *very* chilly, it was time to stitch her a beachy picnic quilt of her own. Naturally, Christmas was the perfect time. Most of the fabrics came from the stash but I did succumb to a few lovelies from Amitie [...]
Tweet The very day we flew out of Brisbane (just over a week ago now), I was frantically finishing the quilting of our new Father Christmas quilt and adding a super quick machine stitched binding (which, I might add, cured me of machine stitched bindings for ever – they truly don’t look nearly as lovely [...]
TweetOh the busyness! Oh the exhaustion! Oh the nerve-wrackingness of not being able to boot this silly little laptop up for a whole week. Oy! The last week has seen us finish up school for the year, travel to Brisbane, finish packing Mum’s house, experience the franticness of the big moving day, say au revoirs [...]
TweetSometimes the only way to tidy up the dreadful mess that seems to creep over every surface and floor in the sewing shed, is to sew my way through it! Last night, whilst sorting bits and bobs into the new dresser, I found this wee converse box. I shook it – it was so light [...]
TweetToday needed a finish … hmmm … what’s lying here in the chest high pile that could be finished in just a few hours. Aha! Babette :-) Time to put aside my quilting complex and get stitching. Curly flowers – some a bit wonky, some just lovely. The last block will almost certainly be the [...]
Tweet… it’s a desk chair for Abby! Thrifted from the Salvos this morning. What a find! Abby is smitten with yesterday’s quilted chair – she declared it the coolest chair she’d ever seen. And asked if I could keep an eye out for a swivel chair for her that we could patchwork. And look – [...]
TweetSpying six fully upholstered dining chairs on the footpath around the corner set me to imagining quilted chairs – some cheerful with scrappy patchwork, maybe some dresden plates, doilies? Oh – I’d talked myself into a right state of excitement – Christmas presents, birthday presents – and all using hard rubbish and fabrics from the [...]
TweetOh the quilted sunshine is finished! And I have heaps of notes and photos to write up … if only I could stop sneezing! So can I share some finished photos and hopefully tomorrow, have the energy to finish writing up the tutorial? Please :-) Thankyou dear folk … dratted spring blossoms! I’m so thrilled [...]
Tweet[ please note, this tutorial (instructions and pattern) is for personal use only, thankyou ] :: Setting :: A little sewing shed, tucked away among the trees in a Melbourne back garden. It is a spring weekend. However, the weather has turned blustery and bleak. Golden light spills from the open sewing shed door. Inside [...]
