We had a day out today and despite the fact that the burglar alarm in the studio went off twice… we had a lovely time. We sat under a red and white umbrella and sampled grilled barramundi. A good idea for a quilt? This little quilt has the blue of the sky, a funky…
Category: Design
The Design is in the Detail
via pamhollanddesigns.typepad.com I wanted to create a Christmas block… Should I piece it…? I have a lot of patterns, I designed a lot of Christmas blocks some years ago… Somehow I want it to fit in with the detail of the previous blocks so the inspiration for this one came from one a Christmas book…
Moving in on the Rhinos X two
I sort of hit the wall today… The Christmas link is too long and I need to compress it…I worked on it for days……..XXXXXXXX (Oh well, more time on the computer) now the pen isn't working on my sample piece for the rhino…. SO, I gave in and went to the movies with Kodi. We…
The Design is in the Detail
If you want instruction on how to do it….follow the link below and catch up on the progress of the next challenge block. Excerpt:- "I have a 50 metre roll of very thick vellum, it's actually the paper draftsmen use for their drawings. It's easy to see through and being thick it has considerable body…
It’s getting better and better, – taking quilting one step further.
I've had a good day today, the weather was superb, 35 deg and sunny. I finished another project and I'm thrilled with the results, but once again it's one of those that I can't show just yet….. oooh it's delicious…. I finished all that darn paperwork and got all the folders ready for the event…
On the road again.
I have been working on Agapamthus No 2. and playing with the texture in the quilting. The images are quilted with smoke mono filament. The thread in the bobbin is grey. However, the quilting below signifies the orange earth and as you can see in one panel, I will create stones in quilting for the…
Almost out – aggies today.
This is the sketch for the next quilt.
AgaPamthus No 2.
The temperature has dropped a little and I'm just about to illustrate the AaPAMthus. We're in our first official heatwave for November I decided to use different fabric for the background. I used a moda print on print fabric and over dyed it. Now I've just competed drawing the buds on the fabric. But I'm…
You never know what the day brings.
You never know what the day brings… Well first of all I knew it was going to be really hot. Then 5 year old Kodi has a virus so He couldn't go to school. Set up with snacks and ginger beer in the boot cup I got from the Dolly Parton roundup. He was propped…