Archive for the ‘quilts’ Category
TweetThere I was, thinking I had nothing to share today. What had I done except race around like a demented muma – 7.33 deliver Abby to school for the 7.30 orchestra rehearsal, tear home to do the chores, 9.30 sprint across the carpark to work, 3.00 fly back to school to collect Abby and drop [...]
Tweetthere is a fireplace … and by that fireplace is a rocking chair … and on that rocking chair is a quilt and this is the quilt fireside it’s big … bigger than anything else I’ve done lately. I’m excited – about the quilting – I’ve been practising. But whilst the dream home may be [...]
Tweet when the rain comes, and I hear the water as it trickles down roofs, splashes onto paths, sloshes in the gutters, there is delighted, grateful relief that this precious gift is once again ours. If only for a day. all is wet and cool and grey and there is nothing nicer right now. especially [...]
TweetOoooh this finishing is marvellous stuff. You know, I think I may be getting more fond of it than starting! Last week – whilst in the throes of sick Mum and sick Abby (thank you all for your lovely warm wishes of wellness for Abby – she’s still in bed today, but she’s sitting up, [...]
TweetWe’ve had temperatures of 40. Tepid sponge baths. Beef tea with butter beans and green vegetables. And a trip to the doctor. Now we have tonsilitis and antibiotics. Hopefully we’ll have some recovering soon. Oh and we have the Brothers Grimm – for any story that lasts more than 10 minutes is too long and [...]
Tweetmini-quilt monday, courtesy of a-stitch-in-dye. What a lovely ongoing project to keep my fingers nimble, try out new ways of doing things and maintain that satisying “finishing” karma. Nevertheless, I don’t want to wind up with bundles of little quilts which have no purpose apart from being pretty. Bit wasteful and all. Now I know [...]
Tweet:: little quilts :: :: lots of prettiness :: :: little moments to finish :: :: lots of cheerfulness :: :: little people play :: :: big people help :: Little quilts – such fun.
Tweet Can you believe it! I’m still in awe. Julian and Abby say they never doubted my ability to finish a quilt. Mum, on the other hand, is suitably amazed. As to why I was suddenly captured with the fierce desire to add those last rows of quilting, put on the binding, finish those wretched [...]
TweetI saw one over here, and it looks so sweet. So, I plonked myself down on the back porch and began adding 1 inch strips. And how they did sing! Every strip added was full of cheerful colour and energy. Even looking at it laid out with pins upon the quilting machine made me dance [...]
Tweet :: felicity :: an attitude of mind, a disposition of the heart which manifests itself in cheerfulness, good humour, joy, happiness, hope, optimism, friendliness, courtesy, positive thinking, inner peace, self-acceptance and courage. We have been hopping with felicity here in Kangaroo Point. :-) [ the newly-beloved border for a new pair of pillowcases whose [...]
Tweet Oh yes I have! :-) This is the first quilt top I have finished since … I’m not sure … the Kaffe quilt last September? Thus, tonight I am truly excited. To paraphrase a remarkable man, this is not the end, nor even the beginning of the end, but it may in fact [...]
TweetWith the onset of autumn, the sun has lowered her rays and now pours onto the back verandah with almost the same heat as that in summer. And after enduring many a hot, sunny morning sewing on the porch, it finally occurred to me to LOWER THE BLIND! What a difference :-) Not only do [...]
