Sew2Speak

I am still playing with threads on various sample blocks. This weekend I finished another four blocks and went back and added some extra embellishment to a couple of the original blocks. There are still another 4 blocks to go. I am now a week behind with my homework Two of the blocks were [...]

My gold foil and fabric paints arrived in the week so I was able to play with them at the weekend. This is continuing the class I am taking at QU. We were supposed to paint fusible webbing and then apply it to our patch. The metal foil was then to be applied on top of [...]

Well I’ve been quiet for a time now. We were back in the UK at Christmas so I took my knitting and made good progress on that.

Since being back I’ve joined a QU class to learn about using different threads for quilting. Not only that, but in the first lesson I have learned a whole lot [...]

I finished the quilting and beading on my colour burst quilt yesterday. I even got out the monofilament nylon thread again for the first time in ages. There were too many large areas where the sandwich wasn’t sewn together and after trying some quilting with sewing thread I went back to the invisible thread as I [...]

Had a pretty hard week at work so I didn’t do any quilting in the evenings. Did start some knitting though. Last weekend I discovered a new-to-me wool shop in the next town to us. Came out with some lovely lilac wool to knit a sleeveless pullover. I did make a start on that. Will have [...]

The final bursting has been added to the centre of my quilt. I didn’t use all the different bits that I bought, but I bought enough to have the right choice for the centre. I constructed the centre burst from wired blue marbled ribbon, orange and white feathers, bronze coloured cord and the butterfly before attaching [...]