Archive for the ‘quilts’ Category
TweetMy dear Aunty Cate has wanted to make a quilt for a long time and fell in love with Beth’s Sampler and the Our Lady of the Peas and Carrots fabric. What a glorious combination! So we decided to conduct little mini classes during her annual leave whereby I would visit every second day and [...]
TweetToday 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 [...]
TweetSpring 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 [...]
TweetYou know the old debate – are certain people violent because they watch violent television, or do certain people watch violent television because they are violent. Well, I’m in a similar quandary. (“Oh dear!” you say,”I don’t think I want to know this about Lily!”) Am I utterly discontented with living in 21st century Brisbane [...]
TweetThe 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 – [...]
Tweet … 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 [...]
TweetToday, confident that Little A was safe, I pulled out the tumblers I cut out last week and proceeded to sew them up. You see, Carolann had sewed ALL hers up last week and she cut hers out after I cut out mine. Not on! I just had to catch up! But unlike sensible Carolann, [...]
TweetI have been incapable of settling on any one project since the climax of the school dramas – instead, when not busy with Little A, I have been pulling out bundle after bundle of fabrics and having a dabble at this, and a woffle at that. I bought metres and metres of white and a [...]
TweetIt was a slow trudge. I woke up with a headache – you know the kind that pulsates behind your eye – was late for the school drop off, slow to put down the laptop and get off the sofa, then Carolann came over so we chattered and chattered and chattered and I provided [...]
Tweet… and today, we watch in amazement as lily attempts to finish ANOTHER project! Out comes the Matroyshka doll house quilt – will she find her scraps for making the borders ’cause we all know she leaves them in the most unlikely places!? Ah, success! She has the scraps. Now she cuts, now she looks, [...]
TweetBeth’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 [...]
TweetI know I said I hate machine quilting and I know I’ve whinged about it before and I know I’ve confessed undying love for big stitch, perle cotton, hand quilting – which I do love! – but do you know what? It’s slow and I have umpteen quilt tops folded up and shoved here and [...]
