I look up at the clock on the wall and it tells me it's 8.00 pm…. I've been editing for 12 hours and I'm still in my pyjamas….. OK, so I don't have to get changed for bed, I can just fall in…..!!!! I've even had visitors today (lucky you can't tell my jamas are…
Month: March 2009
Back working on the Frida Portrait.
I've had to make a decision on what to put on the border of Frida….If you remember I decided on hand drawn tiles, somehow, they just didn't work for me. So now I've made a decision…. I'm going to illustrate the entire border and then quilt it in a similar way to the alphabet. In…
I just Love it.!!!!!
This is hilarious – Daughter Rachael who is a school teacher sent this to me this morning…!!!! This is the message that the Maroochydore High School Queensland, staff voted unanimously to record on their school telephone answering machine . This is the actual answering machine message for the school. This came about because they…
Thrift to Fantasy
This little gem has been pinned to a quilt on the wall in the 'shed' for many yearsSo, it's time to give it a more permanent home… I'm going to put it in a frame and put it by the front door…. I have a book in my library that I get out every now…
G for garden.
The “G” for garden, drappliqued and quilted.
I’m using a 50 weight Superior Masterpiece thread in the top and in the bobbin.
A 60/8 “sharp” needle
Catching up.
I spent most of the day booking plane tickets, hotel rooms and double, double, double checking the preparations for trip No 2. this year. Next was to clean the shed in preparation for uninterrupted work. But I thought you might like to visit my Summer House Studio, I added my little scrap book quilts to…
3 Quilts from one.
From adversity, I've been able to make 3 small quilts. They are quite heavily quilted….following the pattern in the fabric on some instances… The applique is raw edge, I stitched about 5 times around each bird… I used the new Janome foot… and feed dogs up….!!!! I added the pom poms to the bottom because…
Memory Quilts.
I've been busy with family, a dinner party and working on the Alphabet book. Our Guild Meeting was on Thursday night and it was a great meeting. The theme was memory quilts…I had no idea what the subject was for the evening, so I didn't take any of my quilts…But in retrospect almost all of…