Ok, so some of the curves aren’t the smoothest, and I totally failed at keeping my speed constant, so the stitches are all different lengths, but I’m still very pleased with it for a first attempt. And I reckon the recipient, who’s not a quilter, won’t even know that those are errors 🙂
o, I left you with all those loops of squares, and promised you a really clever bit. Well, the really clever bit is that you unpick one seam from each loop, to turn them back into strips, but you unpick a different seam on each one. Which means that each strip starts with a different…
DD was down for a couple of weeks, and it’s amazing how much the urge to blog strikes when you don’t have a platform! Of course, now that it’s back, I can’t remember any of the stuff I wanted to write about, so I’ll have to content myself with pretty pictures of crafty things I…
Sorry about the delay in posting. A combination of being too busy, and having many many photos I wanted to add to a post, but my computer’s been playing up again (I’m about to give up and pay someone to fix it properly, because my “wiggle a few wires and hope” fix keeps failing) and…
Thanks to the generous allocation of University Holidays around this time of year, plus of course quite a few Public Holidays, and the judicious use of a couple of days’ leave, I’ve got a whole two weeks off work. And much needed it is too, after a very busy few months (that break in October…
Amazingly, the sun actually came out over the weekend, and the forecast for Thursday and Friday is now just “drizzle at time”, rather than rain. Drizzle at times I can handle. Drizzle at times means just ducking under the shelter of the marquee for a few minutes until the sun comes out again. Drizzle at…
After doing a pretty good job of trashing Queensland and the North Island, Cyclone Debbie reached us last night. This far south, it’s not a proper cyclone, just a lot of rain and a bit of wind, but it’s still been pretty miserable weather. The Press this morning was saying we’d get an entire month’s…
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That looks awesome!
Good for you for going ahead!
Woo hoo!!! Well done- what a great job! Really great, can’t wait to see what you get up to next.
This is a fantastic first attempt, I really encourage you to keep at it, you are doing so well! So glad to hear you got the courage to try- and hope it continues to bring you joy in your quilting!!
Thanks! I count that as high praise coming from such a talented quilter as yourself. Your book is definitely on my wishlist!
Congratulations – looks so so good. And how brave of you to even attempt it.
Gold Star award !