Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
As you can see, my self-discipline in the square cutting area faltered a little today. I have no excuse other than the fact that I have well-known butterfly tendencies and I just needed to see some results! It’s quite hard to cut and cut and cut and not really know quite what all those different […]
Stars in my eyes…..
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
I’ve been working on the Opening Day quilt – well, to be precise, I’ve been cutting out squares, squares and more squares. I’m trying to be systematic. Normally I would jump right in, cut a bit, sew a bit and bumble my way through. I did sew two of the centre stars in the beginning […]
Red square, beige square, red square, beige square….
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Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
Sometimes being the mother of teenagers can be a little, shall we say, stressful (I’m choosing my words very carefully here, as I never know who might be reading this…). This afternoon I decided that my resolution not to start anything new was going to have to go out of the window. I find piecing […]
Stress relief
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Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
I feel as though I’ve been writing about my Whirligig quilt for months. Well today, in between taking my daughter to start in a new class at school, washing the floors and visiting an old friend and her very new baby, I managed to finish the binding. And that means that it is really truly […]
Whirligig is done…it’s definite
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
I finally managed to sit down today to make a start on the binding of the Whirligig quilt. I had spent a couple of days pulling my stash out to try to find the perfect fabric for the binding. I have a propensity to only buy small cuts of fabric (a meter costs HOW MUCH?), […]
It has to be scrappy….
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