irst term of the semester is over, and I handed my first big assignment in yesterday, so I can pause and relax – well, for a couple of days, at least. I’ve got another assignment due in three weeks, so I’ll have to work on that over the break. And of course, I’ll still be…
espite appearances, I haven’t disappeared off the face of the earth. I’ve just been kind of busy. Semester started two weeks ago, and it was very much a case of straight in the deep end as far as workload goes. I’m loving the course though – it’s much more hands-on than the last paper I…
emester starts tomorrow, so I was hoping to spend the weekend on a last burst of sewing to get the last two birds done. But best laid plans and all that – I’m coming down with a cold (not *too* bad so far, but as almost everyone I know has had some variety of nasty…
An exciting wee parcel waiting for me in the letterbox when I got home tonight (luckily well-wrapped, so it survived the day’s rain/hail/sleet/general horribleness of weather) – a pack of “charm squares” (little sample-sized pieces of fabric – no idea why they’re called charm squares, but it seems to be the standard term in quilting…
I pulled myself away from the birds for long enough this afternoon to bind my experimental quilt: I “cheated” and machine-sewed the binding (otherwise it would have taken me weeks to hand-sew all that!), and there’s a few wee bits where it didn’t quite catch properly so I really should go back and re-do those…
Ok, so my plan for this weekend was to put the binding on my experimental quilt. But the three new In Flight patterns were tempting me, as was an idea I’d had back when I was making the original birds, of reversing the plain background and scrappy foreground. I never followed up the idea at…
Christchurch people (and anyone else who just likes to help preserve cool historic things): If any of you have fond memories of visiting the telescope in the Arts Centre Observatory on a Friday night, you might want to contribute to this fundraiser to help restore the telescope. It was badly damaged when the building collapsed…
First page of my Cool Cats birthday colouring book: As soon as I saw that face, I just had to colour him to look like Raji! (I don’t know if I got his markings exactly right, Mum, but don’t you agree that’s totally a Raji expression he’s got on his face???)
Three more quilt squares done! Feathers. Apart from a wee bit of wobbliness in the corner (mainly caused by not having enough fabric to be able to get a decent grip to move it properly), this one went really well. It looks really cool on the back, too: Next is Ocean Current. This was definitely…
Definitely a lot easier to see what I’m doing! I can actually backtrack along lines of stitching without having to guess whether I’m staying on the same line or not (of course, that doesn’t mean I don’t go off the lines occasionally still (as you can tell above!), but that’s more about getting my speed…