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or trying to. I suppose there are two things that are currently competing for my attention apart from my day time job. One is our intended move to Spain and the other is my trying to get more focussed on my textile art. Both are related to each other. Since our return from Spain I haven’t [...] I have decided what to do about the quilting on my hexagon spiral. I’ve collected lots of neat quotes about colours and am going to quilt them onto the quilt. It’s not something that I’ve done before so I thought I’d better get some practice in first. This was my first attempt – a bit wobbly. The second [...] here is another link to an article about the Quilts 1700-2010 exhibition at the V&A. This time the article appeared on the Daily Mail website. The quilt referred to was made by a group of Girl Guides at the Changi prisoner of war camp in Singapore. One of the girls involved in the making, Olga Henderson, [...] 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 make [...] 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 know [...] 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 bought [...] 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. I [...] 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 down [...] 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 using [...] 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 Patterns [...] |
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