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This blackbird, who has a nest in one of our hedges, has been happily singing in the rain a lot lately! But bad gardening weather is good sewing weather and I have an unexpected finish this week! It’s going to be my May entry for the Color Palette Challenge – and it’s finished two weeks early […]
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As you’ll know if you are a regular visitor to my blog, I am very committed to trying new things so I love TNT with Melissa Cory at Happy Quilting. And this week, for the first time, I attempted foundation piecing and making a spiral quilt. I have always been enthralled by both spiral designs […]
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This month’s colour for the Colour My World Challenge with M-R at Quilt Matters is yellow, which I expected would be quite seasonal. Here are some very yellow photos I took in April last year… April in Pictures 2011 …but what has happened to Spring this year? I took these two photos yesterday… April 2012 […]
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This week I have two finishes – one old and one new. I’m linking the ‘new’, above, to QED at Color Me Quilty – Pat’s exciting new monthly linky party for embellished quilts. Tread Softly The ‘old’ finish is abysmal. In fact it was meant to be Abysmal – but not as abysmal as it turned out! abysmal waters Last […]
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Sasanka: Marked with the Hare is my submission piece for the January Color Palette Challenge. For this challenge, I decided to try using an old design – Gestalt Hare. GestaltHare In the notebook version the hare isn’t there, by which I mean there is an area of black paper left blank and the hare is […]
Read More…I’ve never altogether understood what makes a quilt ‘modern’. This is looking pretty modern to me but it seems a bit ironic if my first ‘modern’ piece of sewing is a copy of an ancient symbol… What does modern mean to you?
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RAINBOW HARE 