Thursday, June 27, 2013

National Quilt Championships

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Rather than my usual policy of being a tease, l thought l would start with the quilt I have had the most questions about. Seneca. This ...
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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

So far so simple

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Ok that seems to work. Guess l had better try to get some photos then. If anyone has any pictures of my quilts at Look Lomond could you send...

Sigh

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Well here is anther way for me to try and get back into blogging. l am hoping a new google approved device will help but only time will tell...
Thursday, March 07, 2013

Innova day 2

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I heard somewhere that it takes 100 hours to train you first machin and something like 80 to train your second. I guess that the time I'...
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Wednesday, March 06, 2013

Innova day one

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It's taken me a while to post these but this is my first play piece on my new machine. Don't look too closely, I hadn't got the...
Tuesday, March 05, 2013

Art quilts - impressionism

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Sunday I spent the day in Worthing teachin impressionist art quilts. The class is based on my quilt 'In full bloom'. I supply a patt...
Saturday, March 02, 2013

Feline assisted longarm assembly

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Yes it would be easier without the cat.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Meccano

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Is this grown up meccano or what. I am loving this.
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Friday, February 22, 2013

Sigh!

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I really hoped I was going to get back into the swing of regular blogging but it seems the universe has other ideas. I've not had much I...
Tuesday, February 05, 2013

Mostly I've been boring

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I know you aren't supposed to admit this but the truth is my life has been quite boring to the last few weeks. There has been paperwork ...
Sunday, January 20, 2013

Sneaky peak

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Here is a section of todays quilting on the applique. As you can see it is taking a lot of thread changes to blend properly, but it's fu...
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Saturday, January 19, 2013

Round 2 threads

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I've finally got the applique onto my new quilt. It's taken 2 weeks solid work to doit and my hand doesn't love me. Now I have t...
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Cutting out

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I've spent most of my time this week cutting out. If you haven't made this type of quilt it's hard to believe how long cutting c...
Wednesday, January 09, 2013

Quilting the background

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I wasn't sure how the background quilting was going to work. I wanted shading but I wanted that to be subtle and I needed the background...
Sunday, January 06, 2013

New project

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I've finally got my own project onto the frame. It's based on a piece of hand dyed sateen, by Heide Stoll-Weber. These are the threa...
Thursday, January 03, 2013

Cow head drying

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I thought you might like to see the front of the finished cow head. This is it pinned out on a thick piece of polysyrene to keep it flat whi...
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Wednesday, January 02, 2013

Back view of the front end of a cow

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I thought you might like to see the quilting on the cow head. It's always easier to see from the back, but the washaway stabilizer makes...
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Monday, December 31, 2012

Dusty's rulers

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When I was in Houston I bought two sets of rulers from Dusty and folks asked if I would put up a review of them when I had tried them. I hav...
Sunday, December 30, 2012

Cow on the frame

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As you can see I am making good progress with the cow now. Yes this does mean the tracing is all done. I am so relieved, it was getting real...
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Saturday, December 29, 2012

What's on the frame?

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Well, two things actually. I know that's a bit odd bit when I need a long table I lay a piece of polystyrene on the rollers. At the mome...
Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Quilt finished

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No I haven't been taking time off from quilting over the holiday. Did you really think I would? Yesterday I finished off a customer quil...
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Am I back?

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Hopefully this new phone will let me start blogging again. I can't get the new blogger software to do what I want and my handset got too...