I finally finished the quilt top for the Little Squares quilt! SO MANY seams to match! I am starting to understand why people put sashing between quilt blocks. I’m really pleased with how it looks, though:
Now I’ve just got to quilt it. I’ve got a few ideas for what I want to do, but I think they’ll have to wait until next weekend.
(Ok, so Tartankiwi calls it a cormorant, but I’m a New Zealander – it’s a shag :-)) This one went so much better than the kestrel – all the seams lined up first time. I wasn’t sure whether I wanted to make one of the birds blue, seeing as I’m using a blue background, but…
ou know how I keep saying I have too many hobbies? And that I really really don’t need any more, especially of the crafty variety that involve a large investment in tools and material (not to mention time)? And that I’m really really really going to stick to just quilting and cross-stitch and lace making…
I went to another class at Make Cafe last week, this time on paper piecing patchwork. Once I got my head round the technique it was lots of fun, and again the class (a bit bigger than last time) was full of lovely people, so we had a great chat over the sewing machines. The…
You know how you get behind on something, and the further you get behind the bigger it gets, so it seems too impossibly huge to tackle, so you put it off even longer, and it just keeps getting bigger… yeah, that pretty much explains the massive gap in blog posts. I can’t even blame putting…
Phase 2 complete: (Photos taken by Lucy-Jane) Yes, the lights do flash on and off.
…start something new 🙂 I still haven’t made up my mind about the border for the Three Dudes quilt (which (prompted by Mum asking why it was called Three Dudes, and me realising that the answer was that it was based loosely on a quilt design that was based loosely on a quilt design that…