This has been turning out to be quite a busy week. On Thursday evening I went to a craft meetup, one of the many things on my “when the thesis is finished” list. It’s quite a cool group, pretty diverse in ages, if not genders, and a reasonable range of crafts, although of course heavily…
Back to work today (yesterday was Waitangi Day), to hundreds of emails, and struggling to get back up to speed with all the projects we’ve got on the go, but I’m sure by the end of the week it’ll feel like I was never away. It did feel very good to be able to shut…
No progress on (any of) the quilt(s), because I’ve been too busy the last couple of days being social and stuff. Dad came up yesterday, because friends of his were hosting a mini music festival out at Whitecliffs (about 70 km from Christchurch) today. He’d originally invited me to go out there with him today…
I finished binding the hedgehog quilt (which I think I should call Heidi Hedgehog, seeing as the original pattern I pinched the idea from was called Hazel Hedgehog) I’m really pleased with how it turned out – free-motion quilting is definitely a lot easier since I got the sewing machine repaired and can actually control…
I basted the flower garden quilt yesterday. Which is just a fancy way of saying I pinned the top, batting and back together so that it’s ready for quilting. Which means you’ve got to spread out the fabrics somewhere you can lay them completely flat before you pin, otherwise you get wrinkles in the backing. …
Or now? In case you’re still puzzled, it’s supposed to be a hedgehog (based loosely on this one, but simplified and a lot smaller). It’s destined to be a very mini quilt for Heidi, my other supervisor (not the one I made the baby quilt for), who loves hedgehogs, so her office is decorated with…
I finally made it to the fabric shop this morning, so I started work on my new project. It’s only a little one, but reasonably complicated (made even more complicated by the fact that I’m working from my own pattern – it’s based loosely on a quilt I saw online, but simplified a bit (yes,…
I’ve been kind of bouncing from project to project this week, I think because I’ve had all these things I’ve been waiting to get to work on, so I want to do all of them at once. I started today thinking that I’d go and buy the fabric for my new project, but then I…
The best thing about having a week off and nothing in particular planned for it, is that you don’t feel like you’ve wasted your time when you get unexpectedly sidetracked into a project – like totally reorganising how you store your fabric (to pick an example completely at random 🙂 ) Yeah. I started this…
2016 was an interesting year. For me it was of course dominated by my thesis – I basically spent the whole year in hibernation, working 50+ hour, 6-day weeks juggling a full-time job and part-time study. Of course, I did take a month off for Greece and Italy, which was pretty cool (and I promise…