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…
artankiwi has announced a “quilt-along” for a quilt she’s designed, and I’m so tempted to join in. It’s an amazing design, featuring all sorts of paper-pieced birds, with loads of different options for the final layout. And I really enjoyed doing the wee challenge with the butterflies, seeing how everyone interpreted the pattern differently. But. …
Three more squares done, using patterns from the ‘A Few Scraps‘ blog: “Topography” – I like this one almost as much as the wood grain one – nice and easy, forgiving of mistakes, and looks cool when it’s done. “Leafy Branches” – a bit trickier (lots of backtracking!), but looks great. I was really starting…
It’s 2015 here in New Zealand, even if most of the rest of the world is still to catch up, and has dawned a lovely sunny day after yesterday’s rain. I reckon that augurs great things for the year – and even if it doesn’t, I fully intend to have a good year anyway 🙂 …
“Square meander” “Nesting boxes” – further proof that I’m not good at the structured, regular stuff. Of course, I could have done something sensible like draw in chalk guidelines first, but where’s the fun in that? “Paisley” And then work ground to a halt because I ran out of cotton. So I’ll have to walk…
This is the second time I’ve written this post. This morning I wrote a long (and, of course, incredibly witty and entertaining) version of it, but when I hit publish WordPress just laughed at me and ate it. And I didn’t have time to re-write it straight away, because I had to run off and…
definite theme is developing with this quilt: find ways to use up all those random experimental blocks that I made to try things out but then didn’t actually know what to do with. Oh, and break the rules a bit and don’t do things you’re supposed to do with proper quilts. Which is why I’ve…
Remember this? I’d started making a wee lap quilt back in August, but put it aside when I got busy with other projects, and the squares have been sitting in a pile on my desk ever since waiting for inspiration to strike. With all of my Christmas projects out of the way, and wanting something…
Now that Christmas is out the way, I can finally show you all the work-in-progress photos I took of the secret project I spent the last few days working on – a Christmas/welcome home/house re-warming present for Lytteltonwitch. Planning: Sewing: Quilting: And the finished product: I’m pretty proud of my work 🙂 I stumbled across…
Christmas presents for my workmates. The theory was I’d make something quick and easy that I could produce multiple of in slightly different designs so I wouldn’t have to think about it too much. Except that, as always, I forgot just how much time cross-stitch takes (about an hour per letter, in case you were…