Dream in colour, create in fabric, thread, yarn, words, whatever you have to hand
This is my submission piece for the April Color Palette Challenge. scrappy yin yang made from 1 inch squares This was the colour palette, selected by Vicki Welsh from Field Trips in Fibre and I did find these colours very challenging! For some reason the brown/orange combination is way outside my comfort zone. I thought I’d […]
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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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Yesterday I finally finished piecing the top of my Happy Star/Pernilla’s Parrots picnic rug quilt and I tried to take a picture – but the wind had other ideas! I don’t know why it looks so giant, compared to Lucy here – it’s 65 inches square. Is that big enough or should I be adding […]
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Have you linked up with the festival of half square triangles | linky party at Canoe Ridge Creations? I was wondering what I could make by Sunday (the closing date) and I realised I made this within the last six months and it is at least 75% hsts… Ruby Butterfly …so I’m off to link up!
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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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It seems that each Wednesday, when I look at my WIP, I have less and less to show for a week’s sewing! ————————————————————– Here’s my WIP report for this week: No progress: Unicorn Stars Quilt Flora Quilt Started: 1 Finished: 1 This week’s stats: Completed projects – 1 New projects – 1 Currently in progress […]
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First: Other people’s pictures [edited to remove some images from pinterest]. My currently in progress quilt is a kind of illustration of the post but on Tuesday my lap top broke – I hope I will find out later today if it’s coming back restored or beyond economic repair. Yesterday my phone broke and that […]
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Last Friday I posted A Question? My question was about this… … and I didn’t say anything else about it because I didn’t want to influence the response at all. And I would really like to thank everyone who replied. I so much appreciate the thoughtfulness and consideration that went into all of your responses. […]
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I’ve just had a virtually blog free week but not a sewing free one. This is what I’ve been working on and I would love to hear any really honest views on what vibes this sends out. By that I mean I don’t want you to be polite or to try to be nice. But […]
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