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I’m a bit concerned. I sent the photos of my proof of concept to my tutor and this was her reply: This looks fine, it will work, you just need to be very, very accurate. Well I’m done now and I’ve sent off the photos to get her feedback. I hope she is going [...] After trying out some traditional sashiko designs on paper I came to the conclusion something else was needed. A continuous design was going to cause untold headaches with the construction, so I turned my thoughts to a four petalled flower. From there my thoughts roamed to arabic tiling and mosaics, but that was getting [...] My next assignment for an assessment item is to make an accessory. I’ve decided to make a folding purse. It will be continuing my theme of folding. The idea came to me as I looked at the examples in the course notes. One of them reminded me of a little folding coin purse that [...] 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 [...] This little quilt is taking longer than I expected. I have used almost the entire pillowcase in making the quilt top. There are only a few scraps of the crochet edging and a small piece of the fabric left. I used the cut off selvedge seam as part of the decoration. It adds quite [...] I made this block last night between chatting to my sister on the phone and via Skype. (What a neat service that is.) It was really not much of a challenge. I should have made the half square triangle squares slightly larger and then trimmed them down as I learnt in Myrna’s class but [...] Well the next little project is completed. Either I’m getting settled into the routine of this course now or the exercises are getting easier, but I seem to be zipping through Module 5. This activity involved making templates, which wasn’t too arduous and then sewing the block. You could choose to sew either [...] The next exercise was to make our own pattern for foundation piecing based on an architectural theme. I spent a long time choosing an image. It is actually not that easy to find one that can be easily interpreted as foundation piecing. The first problem was with curved lines – tricky to do as [...] Made a little house using foundation piecing. I’ve made one small quilt in the past using the foundation piecing method. It was a kit that I bought from a quilt shop. It was about the second or third quilt I ever made. The kit supplied a paper foundation and I found it a real [...] I finished my crazy patchwork mini-quilt today. It’s 25 cm square and I actually did put a binding on. When I come to think about it I believe this is the first piece from the C&G’s course that I have actually “finished”. I’ve been treating everything as samples up to now and haven’t bothered [...] |
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