Last weekend was the Lantern Festival, so on Sunday night I met up with Lytteltonwitch and (after a detour to watch Loving Vincent (which was… interesting? I liked the concept, and it was very pretty, but I thought the sound was badly done – it sounded too much like a radio play, and didn’t connect…
Thanks, StatsNZ! Actually, I heard from a reliable source that the internal recommendation from Statistics NZ was to include an “other” category, but it was rejected by higher powers (read: the Minister) because it would cost too much, and there’s not that many trans*/gender diverse people in NZ anyway (except of course the question has…
I spent this afternoon with Harvestbird and the mini-Harvestbirds at a garden party hosted by Dorothy’s pop-up tearooms (i.e. my friend Jan, who catered my graduation party). After cold and wet weather earlier in the week, it was a lovely afternoon sitting under the trees eating scones and cucumber sandwiches and an array of incredible…
Another very traditional block, the Ohio Star. But unlike the other blocks I’ve made so far, which have just used two fabrics (plus the background), this time I’m adding a third fabric: Technically you can make an Ohio Star with just two colours (or even one, if you kept the central square the same as…
Racing along here! The third block is called a Dutch Pinwheel. It has a lot of parts, but they’re all the same: half-square triangles. So the instructions are pretty short. Now that I’m feeling a little more confident in my ability to sew a proper quarter-inch seam, I decided it was safe to start using…
alf-square triangles and flying geese aside, it’s been a very busy couple of weeks, both socially and with the final push to get QuakeStudies 2.0 finished in time for the launch. We’ve been working on the upgrade (which is actually a totally new build, and then migrating all 148,000 items across from the old system…
The second Block of the Whenever is a nice simple Churn Dash. Nice and simple, but another block I’ve never tried before (possibly because of the whole “leap into the deep end before you try out the paddling pool” thing I’m so prone to…) Because this block has a plain centre square, I picked out…
Not to keep you in suspense any longer, I made that block again, this time being a lot more careful about my quarter inch seams. And it worked! It’s still a tiny bit smaller than it should be (I actually think my sewing machine is slightly out of alignment, because the needle doesn’t come down…
A while back, on one of my “the shipping is flat rate, so I might as well add a few more things to my cart” shopping sprees from Missouri Star, I found a layer cake of Kaffe Fassett fabrics on special. Kaffee Fassett is one of those fabric designers that you learn the name of…
Most important thing: I finished the Lego quilt last weekend, and Lytteltonwitch delivered it to her friend, who apparently loved it. I was pretty pleased with the finished product too: The invisible thread, even though it was a bit of a pain to work with, worked out really well, giving texture to the blocks without…