Category: Patchwork & Quilting
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Quiet Quilting Days
Over the past few days I’ve been quietly quilting my How Does Your Garden Grow? Competition Quilt – stressfully patiently stitching row after row after row after row… I’m three quarters of the way through and I’m really happy with how it’s working out. With a big satisfying grin on my face, I find my self…
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The Beginning of Juicy-Lime Squares
It’s been a fantastical productive sewing day today with the construction of half a new quilt top. I’ve completed the five blocks that make up the top and now need to sew on the sashing etc to completely finish the quilt top. I think I’m going to call this one…..Juicy-Lime Squares. These are my two favourite…
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Sunshine Failure & Magazines!
So I was going to post up some photo’s today of the finished Gumnut Babies Quilt… However, I was having problems with the afternoon sunshine playing havoc on my shots. Everywhere I stood weird and unwanted shadows were being cast over the quilt and most pics were coming out over-exposed. So I’ll have to re-do…
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A Quilters Mind Never Stops Thinking!
Just only a few moments ago this afternoon, I finished hand sewing the binding onto the Gumnut Babies Quilt – escaping with only a few needle pricks and my sanity still in tact! Tomorrow I will label and photograph it, share here with you on my blog and then pass it on to the lucky…
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A Modern Approach
This week I’ve been getting stuck into the Gumnut Babies Quilt – playing and experimenting with a modern Log Cabin block design. The quilt top is now finished – yay! – ready to be basted and quilted. I purposely made the quilt top look patchy especially with the grey block fabric as I wanted to really…
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All In A Day’s Work
In my opinion, the best way to pass a cold and miserable rainy winters day would be to rack up a few good km’s on the sewing machine, pump out some extraordinary quilt blocks and projects and then sit and admire your accomplishments for the rest of the afternoon! That’s how my day was spent…
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I love my job!
Each freezing winter morning over the past week, I’ve reluctantly rolled out of bed with a heavy sigh, blasted my self with a welcoming stream of hot water in the shower, eaten my toast and then drunk a mug of delightful green tea – all to prepare myself for a wonderful day of sewing! With…
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Ohh….iMac!
I can hardly contain my excitement, as I am, at this very moment, writing this blog post on my new, very shiny, extremely fast, super-dooper awesome iMac! OH MY GOSH I LOVE THIS THING! Although most of the time I have no idea what I’m doing or where to find anything on the desktop, I’m…
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In love with progress!
I love a good dose of progress in any way possible and the past few days have been full of it! I’ve come to the point where I’ve almost, just almost, finished the Butterfly cot quilt and I’m so-so-so-so-so happy with it! While finishing this little beauty, I tried out two techniques that I’ve always…
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The Greatest of Intentions
So I had the greatest of intentions to commit myself to my sewing machine and to projects that need to be finished ASAP this weekend. However, as the way life goes, I got sick and was lounge ridden with near-to-no energy, killer sore throat and the worst headache that could ever be ached. But I…
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