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Gallery now in new look

The gallery is back as a link from the main menu. It’s made using NextGEN, which is a Plugin for WordPress. I think it looks much better than the old one and has some neat little features too. Try using the PicLens viewer. I like the way the photos are presented there.

Hola Odette

No puede explicar en español que tipo de proyectos se pueden utilizar los pies que he adquirido. Lo siento! Pero aqui son unas paginas de web con buena informacion.

And for the rest of my readers – these pages may be of interest too.

For the cording foot try this one.

For the tailor [...]

Art Stories

I stumbled upon this blog as I was googling for images – one of my favourite research techniques. Julie Duell is extremely generous in sharing her knowledge about many different painting techniques and other art related subjects. I have read quite a few of her topics and found them all very informative. I’m not [...]

Playing with paint and paste

I have been playing with paint and discharge paste on quilted surfaces. It has been quite fun and gave me a reason to practise my machine quilting. I made four small samples of about 8 inches square and did some fairly dense machine quilting, practising breathing at the same time. It’s true what they [...]

Decorative edges

Today I made a couple of small samples showing two different decorative edge treatments. I used 2 4 inch blocks that I had left over from another project. The beaded edge is made by attaching the binding to the back of the quilt and then hand sewing down onto the front. A seed bead [...]

Proof of concept

I made a quick proof of concept for my folding purse in fabric. It was worth doing because I now know where the dangers lie and where I need to be most accurate with my cutting and sewing. I just did some quick machine stitching where the hand stitching will go. I am now [...]

Straightening needlepoint

Here’s a photo of how I get my needlepoint to be as good as square again.

There are no before pictures – I didn’t think of it until now! But here’s one from last February when I started it It got even worse as things proceeded.

This is actually the second time [...]

Folding vase starting to take shape

I’ve had my nose to the grindstone the last couple of days trying to make some progress on my vase. I don’t think my time estimates are going to be quite accurate. I tell myself it’s because I work on it in small chunks of time so don’t get into the flow but that [...]

Drafting a vase

Although I’ve not had time in the last month to be doing anything for my coursework I’ve not been idle. I’ve been doing a lot of sampling in my head as to how to go about making my vase. Since having it all in my head is not going to get me any brownie [...]

Graphics editors that run on the Mac

I’ve enrolled in a course at Quilt University on fabric portraits. It’s given by Marilyn Belford, who has made many award-winning fabric portraits. I’m going to make a fabric portrait of my Dad from this photo. To make a pattern for the quilt, I need to take a photograph of the subject and posterize [...]