I decided to use this weekend to skip ahead a bit in the In Flight quilt-along, in an attempt to have the whole thing finished a few weeks ahead of schedule, and avoid that nasty clash with the start of semester. Having not participated in a quilt-along before, I’m not sure what the ettiquette is…
I decided to stick with the totally random scrappiness for the next bird, the swift, and I think it looks ok: It’s funny, as I was choosing which bundle of fabric to use for it, I found myself reasoning that I should use the bundles with the smallest number of fabrics in them for these…
ytteltonwitch and I had planned on going out somewhere nice for dinner tonight to celebrate her new job. Some might say we failed at that, given that we ended up eating from a food truck, but I reckon we had a lot more fun than we would have had in a fancy restaurant 🙂 Our…
ot home last night and found a parcel waiting for me in my letterbox. Even better, it was a parcel full of fabric! Mum had texted me the other day to say that a craft shop near her was having a closing down sale, and did I want her to see if she could get…
y resolve about not taking on new things is weakening. I was asked last night to step in as treasurer for my Toastmasters club, because our current treasurer has just resigned from the club. My immediate response was that I definitely couldn’t do it after the start of July, because I’ll be studying, but the…
arvestbird’s writing talent has been recognised with the inclusion of one of her essays in Tell You What: Great New Zealand Nonfiction 2015, which had its Christchurch launch last night. She invited me along to the launch, where she and a few of the other included writers read teasingly short excerpts from their essays. It…
ust had one of those “I love my job” moments. The polytech is running an architecture summer school, and as part of it they’d organised a tour for their students to look around the rebuilt Theatre Royal, an amazing heritage project that reconstructed (almost from the ground up) an Edwardian theatre badly damaged in the…
o I went and bought fabric for the Birds in Flight quilt yesterday. Just the background fabric, because I’ve decided to use a “scrappy” style for the actual birds (where you use a mixture of similarly coloured fabrics to make up the shape, rather than just one fabric), and I’ve got more than enough in…
ent out for drinks after work last night with the rest of the CEISMIC team, to a cafe just off campus. It was a lovely evening, so we sat outside, and it was all very pleasant. So much so that when everyone else started to drift away to gym classes and dates and children’s bedtimes,…
ou know that quilt-along? The one for Tartankiwi’s birds in flight quilt? The one I worked out I absolutely wouldn’t have time to do? Yeah, I just bought the patterns for it. And I’ll probably go and buy some fabric tomorrow. This is probably (certainly) a very stupid thing to do, because there is no…