Can’t seem to stop buying more books. These are my latest two purchases. I already have one book by Jennie Rayment about creating texture by various folding techniques. After finding the table of contents and some of the photos on a web site I decided that there was enough new stuff in this book to [...]
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My next assessment piece for C&G is to be a wall hanging with the theme of nature. That leaves it all wide open. Having felt restricted sometimes by the narrow themes for some of the other activities I am now spoilt for choice and don’t know how to start making up my mind. All I [...] I’ve been having some fun over the last few weeks doing something completely different. As the saying goes – a change is as good as a rest – and I felt like doing something other than C&Gs coursework. I’ve had the book Creative Cloth Doll Faces by Patti Medaris Culea for some time now. I [...] Well not in the books that I read about keeping sketchbooks anyway. I just bought myself a sketchbook. Up to now for my C&G course I have just been using a spiral bound pad of paper for my course work. The new sketchbook said it was a sketchbook and told me the weight of the paper. [...] The pillowcase quilt is now finished. It is 23 inches square. I quite enjoyed doing the free motion machine quilting this time. I must be getting better as I didn’t clench my teeth all the time When I discovered as I was almost finished that I had forgotten to put the feed dogs [...] I had a nice surprise today when the postman came. These two books arrived from my cousin Bernadette in the UK. Thank you! The one on the left is from 1987 and has some interesting ideas for using different materials in appliqué such as cords, ribbons, beads and buttons. There are also ideas for ways of [...] My next activity for the C&G course was reverse appliqué. I’ve done some on the machine before, but not by hand. Instead of just basing the design on one of my images of lines I decided to make something a bit more challenging. My first place to look for inspiration was the book 1000 [...] At the weekend I spent some time browsing through back copies of Quilting Arts magazine and various other quilting books for inspiration as to how to quilt my latest WIP. In the end the real inspiration for the design came from this book: I first learnt about this book in a QU class (Quilting Designs by [...] I was signed up for a second shibori class at QU, which was scheduled to start this coming weekend. Unfortunately it got cancelled. So I treated myself to a book on the subject instead. It arrived on Monday. I was only able to really start looking at it in any detail last night, as up to [...] While we were back in the UK I found this book whilst browsing in Waterstones in Truro, Cornwall. I had looked at it a number of times on Amazon, but couldn’t make up my mind whether I would find it useful or not. Being able to flip through it was enough to convince me that [...] |
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