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Well a 2 1/2 year journey has come to an end. I finished my final assessment piece for my C&G Certificate last weekend. We had to wait until this weekend to get some decent light for photographing as I only sewed the last stitch in the evening of Easter Monday. I have to admit that when [...] 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 [...] I’ve written before about the exhibition Quilts 1700 – 2010 that will open on Saturday at the V&A Museum in London. This last week the Guardian has had some interesting articles about it. Lucky journalists who get to see a preview of the exhibition before the madding crowds get there. And madding crowds there probably will be [...] I sewed the quilt label onto the back of the quilt in the afternoon of New Year’s Eve as the final task to completion. So I did complete it in 2009. It wasn’t particularly my goal to finish in the old year, but it was a nice way to close the quilting year for me. Looking back [...] I first read about the quilt being made by the prisoners in the high security wing of Wandsworth Prison in the Autumn edition of the magazine Intelligent Life. You can read the article here online. It has turned up in the news again on Times Online, as the newspaper is supporting the charity Fine Cell Work in [...] Having said that I was going to make a start on the quilt top I had to get into the studio at the weekend. It was raining and cold and generally a miserable autumn day so there was not much incentive for putting one’s nose outside the door. In fact I don’t think I did all [...] Well no-one came up with any ideas as to what my wall hanging was going to be, so here is another big clue. The full size cartoon for the wall hanging is rather daunting and is up on my design wall looking at me accusingly. Today I decided that avoiding it was not going to be [...] Last weekend was gorgeous weather – too good to spend in the studio. I did some gardening instead and then sat out and surveyed my efforts. It seemed like a good time to do some hand sewing, so I made a start on the next activity for the C&Gs course, which was to make a sample [...] Here is another piece of my coursework for C&Gs. I had to produce a patchwork block using inserts. My first thoughts were along the lines of flowers, which is what most people seem to do. But then I decided to try to interpret a traditional block using inserts. When I made my sampler from a pillowcase [...] I’m a bit concerned. I sent the photos of my proof of concept to my tutor and this was her reply: Well I’m done now and I’ve sent off the photos to get her feedback. I hope she is going to be satisfied. The [...] |
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