Saturday, April 28th, 2012
One of the great things about having children who are no longer little and helpless is that they are actually happiest when their parents are neglecting them. Husband and I ran away at lunchtime today and took ourselves off to a restaurant by the lake of Zürich to eat Fischknusperli (battered fish pieces) and bask […]
Lakeside
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Friday, April 27th, 2012
Do you ever have the sort of day when you really shouldn’t even look at the sewing machine, never mind sit down and start faffing about. It’s the pinwheels – but I guess you’d probably guessed that. Today has been a beautiful day. I had my first proper run since Christmas – it was just […]
Jinxed
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2012
Today I’m starting to tackle this month’s block for the Stitch Tease bee. I can’t show you much as the finished result has to be a secret – but I can tell you that I’m doing pin wheels for Di. Why did I think this was going to be easy? OK, maybe it wasn’t such […]
Secret Sewing
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Saturday, April 21st, 2012
Hopscotch by Camille Roskelley, made with Terrain by Kate Spain with iris and white solids, stipple quilted in white and bound in iris. I started quilting Hopscotch last night – using white thread and just stippling. I decided that this is a quilt that has more than enough going on without any Miss Fancypants quilting. I […]
The meditations of a long distance stippler!
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Friday, April 20th, 2012
Thank you so much for all your tips and hints on the subject of spray basting. I can see I’m going to have to give it a whirl. Most people seem to swear by the spray for smallish items at least, but several have warned off trying to tackle large ones. I suppose at the […]
Bottom in the air….again!
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