tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87396272028405511042024-03-06T11:39:20.378+10:00Jane madly quiltingWords and pictures of my quilting lifeJanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03509105171456833346noreply@blogger.comBlogger264125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8739627202840551104.post-57874699164880813972018-10-19T18:32:00.000+10:002018-10-19T18:32:00.742+10:00Back after along break<div style="text-align: center;">
Life has certainly been busy.</div>
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Recently an old friend said to me "So you are still keeping busy then?"</div>
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This year has passed me by in a flash, I did an interesting job at my work for the first few months-learning, then co teaching the new Digital Hospital program at my hospital. </div>
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Then I got a new full time day job, after 38 years of shift work, day work it is for me for a while.</div>
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My quilting has been happening in the background, luckily my wonderful husband loves to cook.</div>
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A few weeks ago I had a wonderful experience judging the Tasmaian Quilt Guild annual exhibition, I was one of the TQG early members, and it was lovely to be back in my home state again, amongst friends. One of the other judges I have known since I was 17, the other is now a friend!</div>
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I had some success at the recent Queensland Quilters Exhibition- two second prizes and a judges commendation (one of those special coveted prizes!).</div>
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This is Mood Ring- Because I can!</div>
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A fun quilt to make- because I wanted to....its about 2 m square, big.</div>
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Floral Medallion- started about 25 years ago, inspired to get on with it in a class with Gwen Marston , and finished at last this year.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Things I learnt - I did not even do any classes!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Straight line quilting rules! -The power and simplicity of straight line quilting on modern, traditional and art quilts is evidence that straight line quilting has never gone out of fashion.</span></div>
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Melbourne is as ever, beautiful, easy to get around, great food to be found for any meal at any time. Small bars are wonderful! <i>Embla</i> being the bar I found - it's OK to be a woman on her own sitting at a bar with a very nice glass of wine and a bar snack for dinner with an attentive waiter!</div>
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Quilters from all over are happy to chat. I have a lovely chat with Judi from Hobart from my previous life there. Brenda from NSW and I had a serious and welcome chat about the Monthly Art Project (MAP) and its predecessor the Weekly Art Project (WAP). I am inspired to continue the WAP to enable me to gather some momentum, ongoing design and construction flow and to encourage me to document my proceses and learnigns and to blog more often, while continuing with the MAP.</div>
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The quilts being produced and shown (thankyou fellow quilters) are inspiring, I wish I had more time (perhaps less time on social media) to sew. Hopefully now I have a day job, I may become more organised....</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have started a day job, Monday to Friday- day work after 37 years of shift work! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A significant change in our lives! A little less time for stitching, but if I am organised, more time as I will not be so tired.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last year I was highly motivated and was doing the Weekly Art Project - which encouraged me to make something and blog each week. An excellent plan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This year I am participating in the Monthly Art Project (MAP), I am keen to get back into the weekly art 'thing' as it was quite satisfying, and now that I working day work, it could be a litle easier to manage, and be organised.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am inspired by Nancy Crow and the modern quilters of the rest of the world!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It looks tricky in the beginning, but the rulers can help the home quilter achieve fantastic designs with just a simple curved ruler. I use my Bernina 440 to demonstrate at the classes- a machine with a smaller throat space, it works quite well, however at home I use my larger machine. Ruler work on the domestic machine can be a little cumbersome with a very large quilt, but is able to be done. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Complicate looking yet simple designs can be achieved with a simple curved ruler, I have added some sample pictures below, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I now use a small strip of non slip mat under my rulers, it is not stuck on- just sits under the ruler to stop slippage- if it gets dirty or I need a different size, I cut a new piece, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- it comes on a roll and is really quite cheap.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Two simple block designs, no marking as I have used my seam intersections for ruler placement guides. The rulers allow me to make the 'skeleton' of the design then fill with fun and individual fillers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had a lovely treat this week, 2 wonderful ribbons from the Modern Quilt Show Australia that was held in Sydney last weekend. My quilt Shirts Refashioned was juried in and then won a Judges Commendation in the Improvisational category and a Judges Choice! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These are some of my husbands old shirts, they are really soft and well worn, it seemed a shame to send them to Vinnies, so I cut them up and repurposed them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It started with 5 days at the Brisbane Craft and Quilt Fair, working with Bernina as Ruler Guru! This was my last week working with this great team.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have made many new friends, found old friends, and learnt a lot along the way!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are some of my ruler demo samples, I was using pieced blocks for some of the work as they are perfect to show how easy ruler work is on a domestic machine, then my Cindy Needham Ultimate stencils to create a grid to make some fantastic designs.</span></div>
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A <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">small treat at the Queensland Quilters Quilt Show as 2 of my quilts were awarded Highly Commended, in a strong field of entries I am really happy with this result.</span></div>
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Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03509105171456833346noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8739627202840551104.post-49115372837113071522017-09-24T14:50:00.000+10:002017-09-24T14:51:48.769+10:00Farmers Wife blocks 80 and 81<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Moving right along here, I am making slow progress. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have been trying to get this rather large quilt quilted this past few weeks, it is large and I have been busy with other things that had deadlines!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I am not quite sure what possessed me to quilt this design, it is working but is quite tedious, perhaps an all over may have sufficed!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another project underway, one to do when I have no energy for the others and that does not need much concentration, and I have so much red fabric!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03509105171456833346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8739627202840551104.post-17922888759102470802017-09-13T21:16:00.002+10:002017-09-13T21:16:45.794+10:00Farmers Wife block 79- almost there!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today is day 7 of 8 in a row working at paid employment</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> stuff has happened</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I have had a migraine</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> work has been busy- nothing like September in a maternity unit!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have made one Farmers Wife block, the end is in sight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am also trying to get some competition quilts finished and some project quilts done. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of my current projects, I am really happy with the lessons learned at a class with Sophie Standing, and have been using some of those learned skills and ideas </span></div>
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Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03509105171456833346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8739627202840551104.post-85685641215449487312017-09-12T07:07:00.000+10:002017-09-12T07:07:31.323+10:00Birthday treats<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I ran away to the beach at Burleigh Heads for a few days last week for my birthday. A nice apartment with beach views, two days teaching rulers on a domestic machine classes, and a relaxing time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The beach was wonderful, a little cool to swim just yet, but I did have a paddle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The reason I went south was to teach the classes, but decided to take a midweek holiday and have a day off for my birthday in the middle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The classes were such fun! a steep learning curve for some, most of the quilters ended up with a fantastic portfolio of ideas and designs for further reference and many ideas to go home and expand on. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ruler work is a different mindset, and can allow the quilter to achieve consistent straight or curved lines with minimal marking. I have had a lot of fun with the rulers and am really looking forward to my next Bernina work at the Brisbane Craft Fair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Only one Farmers Wife block this week. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">It was a bit fiddly and I was tired, so the points are not perfect.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My group are working towards an exhibition of works inspired by Margaret Olley, this is the start of one of my larger pieces.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Its called "rainy day" as a working title. More to be explained later</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lastly, I gave myself a little treat, well my daughter is giving me the book, and I decided to get a template as well- just because! Super fast postage, I am happy. </span><br />
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Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03509105171456833346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8739627202840551104.post-52066646452254040112017-08-31T17:50:00.001+10:002017-08-31T19:12:23.891+10:00Farmers Wife blocks 74-77<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Moving right along with the Weekly Art Project and the 4 Farmers Wife blocks this week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They have been fun to make. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You may wonder why red and white and why The Farmers Wife?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Red and White because I love red and have a reasonable collection of red fabrics collected over the years, also because my first patchwork teacher, after my granny, was Joy Pratt in Hobart. Joy loved and made several red and white quilts, so this is sort of a homage to her and the passion that she injected into my fledgling quilting life in 1983. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The other reason is that my lovely son, Alec, bought me the Farmers Wife 1920's book a few years ago as a gift. He found it himself without prompting, I am really proud of him taking the time to find something that I love- a book- any book, but a patchwork book with some nice stories as well was a bonus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have added a little to my red and white fabric collection, and now have enough fabric for about 6 quilts!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have also today handed in my Queensland Quilters quilt exhibition quilts. Made 2 new bags to present them in and covered the labels- what a job! but it is done and its all up to the judges and the wonderful quilt exhibition committee.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am looking forward to the October Queensland Quilters yearly exhibition, partly to see the quilts, but also because it is my last show as Bernina ruler quilting "guru". </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What an amazing opportunity I have been handed, to be able to share my joy of quilting and using the Bernina rulers with the quilting community - and to stitch all day!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got really excited and finished the baby quilt, and made </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have had some good stitching time this week, starting work at 1045 pm gives me a nice time in the evenings when the house is quiet and I can concentrate. Its a bit annoying to go to paid work just when you are getting stuck into the work at home, but this is what pays the bills.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I made 6 farmers wife blocks, and started 2 challenge quilts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Some fun with spots! this might be the inspiration to start another improv piece, these blocks are fun and easy to make, and I have lots of scraps and small pieces, the pile does not go down much after sorting and using some though!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The baby quilt is done, good for a floor mat or a bed!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A before quilting shot and then after quilting, this was fun and easy to make, the arrow blocks are 10 inches.</span></div>
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Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03509105171456833346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8739627202840551104.post-45904885737832436682017-08-16T20:48:00.001+10:002017-08-16T20:50:19.703+10:00A new week and a new quilt<div style="text-align: center;">
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Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03509105171456833346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8739627202840551104.post-86818582612069124272017-08-10T21:06:00.000+10:002017-08-10T21:06:50.941+10:00Back to the Farmers Wife<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Three very busy weeks, both with paid work and one week as Bernina Ruler Guru at the Melbourne Craft and Quilt Fair, then a week holiday with my mum, has left me a little behind on my Farmers Wife schedule.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have made one block this week, a little fiddly, but a nice one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I should have made some blocks in advance, but I really had trouble just functioning at a basic level just to get the rudimentary things done. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also have taught 4 quilt classes in the past few weeks. So many quilters have amazing tools and equipment and need some encouragement to use them to their best advantage. I have really enjoyed these classes, but go home quite exhausted. My word to you is that if you have bought 'tools' to enhance your quilting- try them out, take them to your group to troubleshoot and then go home and practice practice practice!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In these classes I have found new 'tools' to enhance and improve quilting, some are great , but some so fiddly, that I wonder if they are really going to help the average home quilter, or just confuse and frustrate? One of my own 'tools' that is wasted on me is the triangle cutting ruler, I have had it for about 15+ years and used it twice! I usually cut a square then stitch and cross cut for half square triangles, it does give more stability when stitching, especially with small blocks. My 6" x 24" and 6 1/2 " x 6 1/2" and 12 1/2" x 12 1/2" rulers are perfectly serviceable for my needs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I have been working with Bernina at the Craft and Quilt Fairs to demonstrate the Bernina machine quilting rulers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love using these rulers, and have been having some fun with my Cindy Needham Ultimate Stencils to create some fantastic and fun mandala style blocks. It is amazing to think that with a few basic curves and a straight ruler I can create amazing shapes. I am not using fiddly rulers, sometimes I may not use the whole oval or circle, but I am creating really pleasing repetitive designs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now if only I wasn't so tired after a very busy birth suite night shift, I might have the energy to sew....</span></div>
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Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03509105171456833346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8739627202840551104.post-4546127877055074032017-07-26T11:45:00.000+10:002017-07-26T11:45:04.771+10:00Where did that week go?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This past 2 weeks have flown by without time to draw breath! work and then some teaching machine quilting classes have taken all my time and energy, with my creative time being limited to class prep and recovery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So here I am with no Farmers Wife blocks this week, and no hope in the next 2 weeks, and I was doing so well....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stitching time for myself has been sadly limited.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am trying really hard to finish some pieces for the Queensland Quilters yearly exhibition, 2 weeks away now and my time is even more limited.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am going to Melbourne as guest artist with Bernina on the Q20 demonstrating ruler work, come along and see what it is all about if you are in Melbourne. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then I am really looking forward to a week with my mum, sitting and hand sewing and walking the beach- even in winter 'our' beach in Tasmania is marvellous!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is one of my exhibition pieces, I am up to the binding, it is an improv piece of some of my husbands old shirts, they are so soft, it will be a lovely quilt to snuggle under- perhaps for his teardrop caravan that he is starting to build....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our son has been living in Colombia teaching English for the past 16 months, our daughter recently visited with him for 2 weeks, they had a marvellous time together. I asked for a Mola souvenir. They chose these 2 pieces, one is a bag and the other a fantastic panel. They know that I like red, and I am impressed that they chose pieces that I love! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Being surrounded by textiles their whole lives seems to have paid off.</span></div>
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Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03509105171456833346noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8739627202840551104.post-9263198888667746212017-07-17T18:54:00.001+10:002017-07-17T18:54:27.168+10:00X plus quilt - a family gift<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One sad and lonely block this week, and its very late.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had hoped to get some more done,but life got busy. Paid work- can you believe it! house guests , and many nights out with friends!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This block was deliberately pressed with the seams open, it worked well, till I stitched it upside down! The centre isn't quite right the second time around, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but I am not undoing it again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week I am trying to quilt this rather large XPlus quilt for my cousin for a 21st birthday gift. The birthday was last week, the quilt top took 2 weeks to make.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is a bit special as I have used mostly her late grandmothers fabrics. The grand plan is to get it quilted and ready to bind before I head to Melbourne next week for my demonstration on the Bernina stand at the Craft and Quilt fair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I do have a lot of work to do between now and then, some blocks to prepare, its good to have a pieced block to demonstrate ruler work on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below is one of the variations of quilting designs, I really like my plastic sheet, I found it at the art supply store, I do have a border of masking tape so I don't accidentally draw on my quilt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had a busy day yesterday and pieced 4 more blocks, I am happy to say that I am using my new light fabrics. However the box of red and white fabric is not reducing at all!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have been piecing another quilt this week, a birthday quilt, can't show it yet, but I think that the recipient will be happy. I was trying to reduce a particular stack of fabric, it appears to be no differen</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">t even after piecing a queen sized quilt!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course, I had to do a little machine quilting today, this is a class sample (fat quarter size) for my class tomorrow, ruler work on the domestic machine. I have a lot of pieced blocks, but a whole cloth is fun. Lets hope my students have fun too!</span>Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03509105171456833346noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8739627202840551104.post-46891199388286917972017-06-30T13:09:00.002+10:002017-06-30T13:09:29.716+10:00A little win and a very big weekend!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First the good news, I won a prize this past week, third in the Modern category in the NSW Quilt Guild show. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am a little excited, as it is such a big category with many talented quilters entering!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks to the sponsors of my prize- Dayview Textiles, Berry Quilting Retreat and Sue's Top Finish Quilting service, and of course QuiltNSW.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The light was interesting at this show, however it did show up my quilting very nicely indeed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had so much fun. Most of my samples were on the black fabric, although I did have some pieced blocks which were excellent for showcasing how easy the rulers are to use.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below are some of my black samples, done using a Cindy Needham Ultimate stencil for the base grid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> My Farmers Wife has had a to wait a while this week while I have been recovering form my weekend and make a start on another quilt - yet to be revealed .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Block 58 came together very nicely, block 59 on the other hand needs a rethink and a restitch, there's not many that I restitch!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oops this is not going to lay flat - ever- no matter how much starch I use!</span></div>
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<br />Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03509105171456833346noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8739627202840551104.post-15337992502223258972017-06-21T12:56:00.002+10:002017-06-21T12:56:39.215+10:00Farmers Wife blocks 55, 56 & 57 and some distractions<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I have been distracted this past week, a lot of busy shifts at work- a baby boom!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Planning for the Sydney Craft and Quilt Fair where I am one of Bernina's guest artists! demonstrating ruler work on the Q20- I am really excited and a little nervous!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below is one of my sample pieces, a mandala style quilt, made for a competition where it did not fare well.... so it will be on display with some other works at the various craft and quilt fairs as part of the Bernina stand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below is a modern improv cross quilt, my husband decided that these shirts were too big and too old for him now, so I cut them all up and made a fun improvised cross quilt. I had a moment in the night where I remembered the yellow shirt, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it was just perfect for some light relief.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The quilting is coming along nicely, and the back is so much fun. Another picture next time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Yesterday I made 3 blocks for the Farmers Wife. I dug a little deeper into the box for some different fabrics, it seems as though some days I just skim the top of the fabric selection. I really need to tip it all out and mix them up a little. I also need some more really light fabric, perhaps I will see some this weekend in Sydney at the quilt show!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I often wonder if I am better to hand piece some of these blocks with many small pieces, then I think that - just get on and machine piece, its not too bad. I do use a fair bit of spray starch and find that I do get some shiny areas, they will wash out I hope.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This has been a really good exercise in putting different prints together, I am usually afraid of choosing more than one print, so this project making me think outside my little square and be brave in my fabric choice decisions!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This block is a little fun, I just love the black with red!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am really looking forward to 4 days of sewing, and hopefully some wonderful inspiration!</span></div>
Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03509105171456833346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8739627202840551104.post-56988454301720183572017-06-11T12:19:00.002+10:002017-06-11T12:19:32.731+10:00Accurate seam allowances- Farmer's Wife<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two blocks this week in my Farmers Wife quilt, I am at the halfway mark now!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hmmm, I am not sure about the fabric choices here!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I visited the Ipswich Art Gallery this week to view the Annette Gero Wartime quilts, one of the most amazing things was the piecing accuracy achieved by the makers- mostly men. The fabrics were thick, the pieces quite small, yet the accuracy was quite amazing! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Obviously they were hand stitched, no rotary cutters, and probably a paper or cardboard pattern- which can quite often become misshaped or trimmed unexpectedly to result in an odd sized pattern!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These quilts are quite amazing given the conditions they were made in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even with today's conveniences of stitching, many quilters - including me sometimes - are unable to achieve that repeated perfection with piecing.</span></div>
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Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03509105171456833346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8739627202840551104.post-64757010920728074202017-06-02T18:06:00.004+10:002017-06-02T18:06:40.330+10:00Got my mojo back!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a very busy week- again at work, I have been very tardy last week and did not stitch any Farmers Wife blocks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I did, however make a small quilt for the Spotlight competition!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's nothing like starting at the last minute and stitching like crazy till its done!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week I have done 4 Farmers Wife to try to catch up with my </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">own self set timeline.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With these blocks I am using some different fabric combinations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Usually I just pull out a dark and a light and start cutting !</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> There is always the question of whether one should press the seams open or to one side, I always have the quilting design in the back of my mind when I am piecing, I do like to stitch in the ditch a lot, so am very wary of pressing seams open. Every so often some blocks need to be pressed open to avoid bulk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Preparation for the Craft and Quilt Fair in Sydney later this month is my next deadline, where I am Bernina's guest artist on the Q20, doing ruler work!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week brings 2 blocks, using fabrics that I found while I was searching </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few days off work after 4 night shifts and I have been madly quilting and trying to clear some projects from my sewing room. A few more days off and I can clear some more unfinished projects.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Week 18 brings me to blocks 45 and 46. The fabric choices got a boost this week as I searched for something else and found some more red prints. Sadly my selection is lacking some lights, I am determined not to use a solid light fabric, even though I have some solid reds. All the light fabrics are red and white prints.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some fabric is soft and loosely woven and easy to use, but can distort a lot when used in such small pieces, especially triangles, some fabric is so stiff that it feels almost twice the thickness of the softer ones. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am resisting the urge to look at the next few blocks to see exactly how many baskets there are! let it be a surprise!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A very slow but otherwise busy week indeed!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometimes paid work takes over from fun work- how annoying!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I managed to cut out two blocks last week, but only stitched one, before I went for a lovely weekend to Sydney with my mum. so relaxing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The inset pieces caused a little hiccup, the one I measured and pinned was dreadful and needed unpicking, however the one I just stitched was perfect!</span></div>
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Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03509105171456833346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8739627202840551104.post-77221140740273576442017-04-30T09:30:00.000+10:002017-04-30T09:30:46.610+10:00Farmers Wife week 16 - a trip to Bundaberg and a busy week<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have worked full time for 3 weeks, nothing like trying to get things done at home while you are exhausted from work- we had a very busy few weeks! a baby boom!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another basket in the patterns this week, makes me think the original patchworkers were making their homes pretty with flower baskets when their gardens were bare.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had the pleasure to travel to Bundaberg last weekend to teach 2 classes; Improvisational piecing. What an energy filled weekend! apart from the lovely company, there was great food, and an abundance of creativeness!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many of the ladies started from scratch with their fabrics, some used older previously pieced blocks and revamped them. There was some painted fabric which got a new life, also some very planned colourways. While I do have a few pictures, I am saving them for the quilters themselves to show, many of the pieces are still in progress.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Teaching and planning- did make me think about classes and being both a student and a teacher recently ( several times as both).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At one stage, I had the thought when I was student "when am I going to get my money's worth?"- that is - the teacher does not come my way very often.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then, when I am the teacher- I am very conscious of getting to everybody </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have a system to rotate from one student to the next and then go round again and again- in the same order- always.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I did do some calculations! in a class of 12 over a 6 hour class- taking out introduction, general class instructions and class recap (approx 1</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> hour), that leaves 5 hours. Divided by 12 students gives every student 25 minutes each individual time over the day, broken down into several visits by the tutor (that is the maximum time per student in a class of 12- if I don't stop to give general class information from time to time). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If there is general class instruction or a longer recap- which happened last week, or someone leaves early, or comes late, it reduces the time per student to less time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Its a tricky balance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If I take 1 hour to cover the class as a recap- that is to go round each student and discuss design and show work, planning and taking it home to finish- which is nice to do as a group - the time per student reduces to maximum 20 minutes per student- or less if there are more students. In my mind that is 4 individual visits of 5 minutes each over the class day! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So while my brain is helping you choose colour and designs and troubleshoot - I am acutely aware of the time restrictions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope that I have got it right and that my students are happy, it takes a lot of energy to teach a class! A primary school music teacher once said to me that every class she taught was like " a one woman cabaret show- every class!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometimes I feel like that - especially with the improv class,but the end results are worth it.</span></div>
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Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03509105171456833346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8739627202840551104.post-15148563524090495882017-04-20T21:51:00.002+10:002017-04-20T21:51:52.326+10:00Farmers Wife week 15!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have had a busy few weeks at my paid employment!, however I found time this week to cut 4 blocks one night and stitch them the next night. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometimes I favour one particular red print, but sometimes I dig to the bottom of the bin and find a new one!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometimes as with the flower basket, I use the same fabric! then stitch the block the wrong way! I am not unhappy with it so it will stay as is for now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is a challenge often to find a fabric that is OK for what is obviously the basket!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We did get washed out by Hurricane Debbie a few weeks ago, but tomorrow it is!</span></div>
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<br />Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03509105171456833346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8739627202840551104.post-90551111735726564382017-04-16T14:30:00.000+10:002017-04-16T14:30:56.045+10:00Farmers Wife week 14- pressing the seam open!<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One block this week, I had grand intentions of making 4, however work has been so busy I have no energy left- must have been a power failure nine months ago- so many babies due! and being born!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This block (which is block 36 of 111) required some accurate templates and sewing, I can see where I restitched the centre seam again, will need to do some repair work!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is one occasion where I have pressed the centre seam open, usually I strive to press all seams in the one direction - I do a lot of quilting in the ditch for stabilisation and block definition, sometimes the intersections where lots of small pointy triangles meet can be tricky to press flat... no matter how much spray starch I use!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I used a specialty template and a paint colour chip for a challenge a few years ago, sadly this hand stitched cushion top has been waiting to be finished for ages!</span></div>
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