I finished off the binding on Monday night, but pretty much every evening this week that I’ve been home before dark it’s been too wet to hang the quilt on the line so I could photograph it (and I really wanted to take the photo outside in natural light). It’s supposed to rain again this…
So much for my good intentions of regularly posting to my blog – that seems to have fallen by the wayside a bit! Partly because I’ve been busy (last week I went to Toastmasters on Tuesday night, my craft group on Thursday night, and a union Rainbow Te Kahukura function on Friday night. And this…
Today was the sixth anniversary of the 22 February earthquake. The big event for the day was the unveiling of the new memorial wall, much discussed and debated over the last few years. We needed a blog post for CEISMIC, so I offered to go to the ceremony and write up my impressions. I won’t…
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. …
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…
ay for five-day weekends! (Tuesday is a university holiday, on top of the usual Easter public holidays). I’ll admit my first instinct was to treat the long weekend as three extra days I could spend in my office coding my data (a long and laborious process – I’ve got tens of thousands of instances of…