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Secret Garden patchwork is a variation on the Cathedral Windows pattern. It wasn’t one I’d heard of before taking this C&G course. The only reason for the name that I can think of is that the finished effect looks like four petalled flowers. This piece has also been made in the evenings in the hotel bedroom. [...] I’ve been making holes in my fingers again this weekend while making my first attempt at sashiko quilting. It is a simplified version of the fan pattern. I didn’t have enough blue fabric that was fairly loosely woven so I used green instead. As I couldn’t find a local shop to buy the authentic supplies I used [...] I’ve been making pin cushions of my finger tips this weekend doing some hand quilting. The tip of the index finger of my left hand looks like raw meat I’m not a very accomplished hand quilter and I can’t say that I really enjoy it. I always seem to get into a fight with [...] As the appliqué was hand sewing I made a start on it in the week. I like to have this kind of craft work to do in the evenings. I find it quite relaxing so long as I don’t do too much at once. I finished the piece this morning. I didn’t find the technique as [...] It amuses me that this technique is known as the English paper piecing method. Just goes to show how we are influenced by the American view of the world. To me this is just paper piecing. It is in fact the first technique that I used to make a patchwork quilt at the end of the [...] 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 [...] When I started module 3 and was looking at the activities that were coming up, I thought what a coincidence it was, as I had just been reading about broderie perse at womenfolk.com. It is one of the techniques I am learning in this module. Take a look at the article at womenfolk.com to learn something [...] One of my activities for the C&G course has been causing me pain. I was to take a shape and use it to create a design with bonded appliqué. At the same time I was to think about the colours I was using. In a previous activity I took photos of shapes around the house. I [...] I was browsing the internet as you do – me I’m always googling words for inspiration, both text and images – and came across this “what if” blog. That really made me smile because if one thing stuck in my mind from my Self Expressions class with Myrna at QU it was to keep asking yourself [...] This is a small piece (about A3) based on a primary source. Here the primary source is the bamboo flooring that we put down in the first floor of the house last summer. At the time we were busy laying it, I thought it would look good as a quilt top. Now I’ve made a small [...] |
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