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not-so-wordless wednesday #6
Feb. 9th, 2011 10:54 am
Y/day I had my dental surgery and today I am thankful for: painkillers, soup, ready brek (a fine milled porridge), quilts to snuggle under, some knowledge of energy medicine, salt washes, and the internets.
rain does not stop play
Feb. 5th, 2011 03:53 pmIs raining, and light is poor, but I have made good progress with sewing.
These are 1.5 inch HSTs that I'm chain piecing from borrowed templates, hence the imperial measure. The leaflet that comes with the templates is more than vague on what size to cut other pieces for the block, other than those using the templates.
Also, I have this hanging to quilt, marked and pinned and threads ready.
I want to practice a bit on scrap to 'train the muscle memory' before I quilt the hanging. Quilting the lamp mats and vase coasters the other day showed me i've lost some of my ease from lack of practice.
My hand stitching I show you another day. :- )
These are 1.5 inch HSTs that I'm chain piecing from borrowed templates, hence the imperial measure. The leaflet that comes with the templates is more than vague on what size to cut other pieces for the block, other than those using the templates.
Also, I have this hanging to quilt, marked and pinned and threads ready.
I want to practice a bit on scrap to 'train the muscle memory' before I quilt the hanging. Quilting the lamp mats and vase coasters the other day showed me i've lost some of my ease from lack of practice.
My hand stitching I show you another day. :- )
my creative space...
Feb. 3rd, 2011 01:00 pm... is working on too many things at once. More of that another day.
Yesterday, I made a pair of reversible lamp mats as a cheer-up gift.
Both are 'flower fairy' fabrics. The apple blossom is last year's range, and the sweet pea has been hoarded these many years. Layered with a scrap of Thermore batt, the blossom were outline quilted with 100g silk threads, top and bobbin. Simple but useful and cheery, no?
Yesterday, I made a pair of reversible lamp mats as a cheer-up gift.
Both are 'flower fairy' fabrics. The apple blossom is last year's range, and the sweet pea has been hoarded these many years. Layered with a scrap of Thermore batt, the blossom were outline quilted with 100g silk threads, top and bobbin. Simple but useful and cheery, no?
My creative space…
Jan. 27th, 2011 12:26 pm...is delighting in the work of my hands. 'Renewal; longing for spring' is completed; the first finish for 2011.
Hand pieced, hand quilted in the ditch and blocks, hand finished.
The reverse. The quilting designs were hand drawn.
Hand pieced, hand quilted in the ditch and blocks, hand finished.
The reverse. The quilting designs were hand drawn.
Reasons 2b cheerful: pt 26
Jan. 18th, 2011 01:29 pm~ gas man fixed the boiler and we have heating and hot water again!
~ new patterns added to 'i-should-like-to-make-one-of-those' box.
(there is yet a third pattern i have my eye on, by american jane, but it doesn't appear to be available yet. When it is, i shall pounce like pouncy thing.)
~ new patterns added to 'i-should-like-to-make-one-of-those' box.
(there is yet a third pattern i have my eye on, by american jane, but it doesn't appear to be available yet. When it is, i shall pounce like pouncy thing.)
Don't know exactly where i am...
Dec. 19th, 2010 02:33 pmAn icicle depending from the underside of the roof. Half a metre long.
This twisted tree, j'adore!
The yard. A 9" quilting ruler in the snow.
These scenes, it doesn't feel like the UK, although I endured similar last year.
This twisted tree, j'adore!
The yard. A 9" quilting ruler in the snow.
These scenes, it doesn't feel like the UK, although I endured similar last year.
Well, not really, no? I have only the blocks made into a top.
This is the Paganini schnibble so far. I intended to make it from stash and then a friend (who had recently been stateside again) surprised me with a Bliss charm pack and a couple half yards of the fabric. It all worked together well and I stitched half the blocks together, completing the top in a marathon effort last eve.
This morning, Sherri at A Quilting Life kindly allowed me to slide under the wire and submit my unfinished top for 'Le Petit- a year of small projects'.
I'm stalled on this until the extra fabric arrives for the borders. Maybe I start the winter quilt that I bought Kate Spain's 12 days of xmas prints for. Who knows?
This is the Paganini schnibble so far. I intended to make it from stash and then a friend (who had recently been stateside again) surprised me with a Bliss charm pack and a couple half yards of the fabric. It all worked together well and I stitched half the blocks together, completing the top in a marathon effort last eve.
This morning, Sherri at A Quilting Life kindly allowed me to slide under the wire and submit my unfinished top for 'Le Petit- a year of small projects'.
I'm stalled on this until the extra fabric arrives for the borders. Maybe I start the winter quilt that I bought Kate Spain's 12 days of xmas prints for. Who knows?
Hows this for cheek!
Oct. 26th, 2010 07:56 amLook out the kitchen window last afternoon and saw this on the bird feeder.
I remark on it and everyone comes to see. Yes, is a rat.
I remark on it and everyone comes to see. Yes, is a rat.
Still sick but recovering, I managed to be productive, in an odd sort of way. Although I recently started quilting, I bought magazines since 2001. I looked through to help pass the time and wondered why I kept them when so little on the pages appealed. So, I ripped out patterns I might make, or images I found interesting and made a folder to contain them. One box file out of nearly a metre stack of magazines, and 2 less boxes in my nest!
Reasons 2b cheerful
Oct. 27th, 2009 09:15 am~my fever, aching, painful throat, sneezing and sniffling have passed.
~cough medicine that works.
~sleep!
This is as far as I got Friday night before the virus got me.
~cough medicine that works.
~sleep!
This is as far as I got Friday night before the virus got me.
