We've had a lovely weekend. I was able to concentrate on finishing the 'X' project and at the same time I had a little free time. It was a hot weekend. The garden is parched and the air was hot with a north wind so a birthday party round the swimming pool with the Grandies,…
Category: Capture & Create
The ‘X’ is done.
I completed the quilt top today. Its not the best photo. The feet are 3 dimensional appliques and will come out over the red and white stripe binding. The hands and arms are illustrated. The flags will be at the top now. Exreme, because this will be Miss Jaya's Quilt and her Dads busines is…
Designing the ‘X’ treme Quilt.
Gees there are so few words you can use beginning with 'X' 'X' for Xylophone just doesn't cut it. so this quilt will be for son Jamie who's business is 'X'treme Productions. 'X'treme This morning I decided to continue the flag theme, so I drew the same flags as I have on the 'x' image…
Right now I'm creating the quilts for the Alphabet book but before that I need to make a sample for class. I've been waiting for the fabric I designed to arrive and time is running short so I just have to draw some of the fabric and use what I have. I don't know if…
Yet another evacuation.
I took a little time off work yesterday and it was a joy. I had lunch with friends and then we visited the Art Gallery of South Australia to see the much anticipated Turner Exhibition. Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851) was an English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker,…
Still quilting.
I'm having difficulty with the 'composition' link on my blog…. its really frustrating and takes ages to get a blog published. I think it must be a problem with the workings of Typepad. I've been up in the wee hours working on the quilting of this piece. I probably have about another 20 hours of…
I’m very much swinging in the branches.
Goodness 3 days with out a blog post. We had a very busy weekend… and by the end of each day I was just too tired to write. Thanks to those of you who were worried I'd dropped off the tree. I'm very much swinging in the branches. The photo below is of my favorite…
My Gal, Cal.
The blog has been difficult to do tonight, just a little glitch in the computer. I spent hours at the central market today buying mountains of food for an event. No, I'm not cooking, I don't like spending hours over a hot stove. Our daughter Callie is the chef. I'll explain. The dinner is an…
My Drop Box for problems
Ooh the pitfalls of the internet. I just found 30 messages in my class page that had not been forwarded to me from the web site Its my fault, I had the wrong configuration but I've rectified it and I do apologize to everyone who thought I was ignoring them. When I have problems like…
Thank You.
Thank you one and all for your generous support with the book. I was a bit overwhelmed really, but thrilled. Its been busy this morning and your books will be in the post today. Thanks also for the comments on the new blog format, I have to add to it a litte more, but many…