there's nothing like a deadline to get things finished! Highway 16 Quilters have our biennial exhibition this weekend. Come along to the Kumeu Community Center between 10am & 4 pm on 21st or 22nd June.
With any luck there will be 4 quilts by me on display. If I can complete the 15 metres of handstitching binding in the next 3 days...
Last weekend would be the most boring for a long time - a whole king-size quilted between 8pm Friday and 4pm Sunday. I love to machine quilt, but that was a bit concentrated even for me. The best part was that all my problems with needle-breakage and thread snapping seem to be over - so that was all stitch-time!
See you at the show!
...and redo
I just discovered how easily a blog can be deleted (not mine!) and that there is no backup. this would fill me with horror in my professional life, but here, it's like cutting the fabric - there is no turning back. You can piece it back together from scraps, iron-on mender if you're lucky, but the seams will always show.
Sarah
Sarah
Rip out and re-do
Happy new year!
Far too busy stitching to write... the strawberry sundae suit, perfected pants, a custom-fit top for HennyPenny.... and so much more. The fabric shopping is still staying ahead of the making, I've made good use of the sale at my current favourite store, New Lynn Fabric Barn
Night before last I completed the quilting of my group's annual raffle quilt, now just need to find a volunteer/victim to bind it. I'm standing down as group president, I hope that will give me a new lease of life for quilting projects rather than running meetings.
Maybe some photos next time, Kathryn :-)
Far too busy stitching to write... the strawberry sundae suit, perfected pants, a custom-fit top for HennyPenny.... and so much more. The fabric shopping is still staying ahead of the making, I've made good use of the sale at my current favourite store, New Lynn Fabric Barn
Night before last I completed the quilting of my group's annual raffle quilt, now just need to find a volunteer/victim to bind it. I'm standing down as group president, I hope that will give me a new lease of life for quilting projects rather than running meetings.
Maybe some photos next time, Kathryn :-)
One more stitch
One post does not a blog make! How do you people out there find time for this with all the other writing we do?
Quilting is sadly neglected in the pre-holiday season... so no progress on the Jaffa - and no photo either. One finish to celebrate: I will be taking a quilt "Nicole's Stars" back to my lovely mother-in-law Colleen on Christmas Day - we pieced it together, I've quilted it, and it will go to her granddaughter/my great-niece Nicole
Yesterday I decided to make a new outfit to wear on Christmas Day - strawberry sundae linen yum! but at 9.30 last night - after a shopping expedition, sleeve re-design and resolving a fitting crisis - there were still 2 seams and a hem to go.... looks like it will be a birthday outfit instead. Just as well there are a lot more fabulous outfits already made :-)
More in the new year, after all what else are holidays for....
Quilting is sadly neglected in the pre-holiday season... so no progress on the Jaffa - and no photo either. One finish to celebrate: I will be taking a quilt "Nicole's Stars" back to my lovely mother-in-law Colleen on Christmas Day - we pieced it together, I've quilted it, and it will go to her granddaughter/my great-niece Nicole
Yesterday I decided to make a new outfit to wear on Christmas Day - strawberry sundae linen yum! but at 9.30 last night - after a shopping expedition, sleeve re-design and resolving a fitting crisis - there were still 2 seams and a hem to go.... looks like it will be a birthday outfit instead. Just as well there are a lot more fabulous outfits already made :-)
More in the new year, after all what else are holidays for....
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