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Saturday, 16 October 2010

Double Wedding Ring...Blogtoberfest 2010 - Day 16

I am totally jealous of owners of these AccuQuilt Go!'s because I have been hand doing a double wedding ring for ...ahem....18mths (longer if you add the time I haven't been actually working on it).

Sue at Alderwood Quilts is giving away a Go Cutter

I have read a lot about these little machines (and the lucky people who are winning them all over the internet - you have to be lucky to get picked out of >800 -1000 entrants) so I am letting you know that there is a giveaway of one of these HERE. You have till November 1 to enter*

So would you like to see where my double wedding ring is up to - you only need go back to this post to find out.
Yep I thought about it 4 months ago... bad quilter!
I'd better use this wild and windy weekend in Sydney being a bit more constructive and a little less thoughtful!!

thanks for taking a peek over the fence...

* of course I've entered so that lessens your chances..he..he..he

Tuesday, 6 July 2010

Some School Holiday Crafting

Brrr - it's cold and raining. I'm going to the snow (Thredbo) in a few days. There'll be two thirds of our family and several other families all travelling together. A sort of travelling snow circus! A weekend travelling snow circus!

Did I mention the cold? I don't have a beanie and decided to knit one from the first pattern I could lay my hands on and any leftover wool lying around.

I found this book buried on the bookshelf with a few choices of patterns. 8 ply wool - check; no. 7 needles - check; style 35 - check

Iv'e heard quite a few comments about it looking like a cupcake, but they all happily try it on.
Mmmm...looks like a bit of pompom overload!
The best part - it's really, really warm!
Apparently I am now making one in blue for Minky!

The Double Wedding Ring has come out of hiding, and is being spread out over any flat surface. It's all about cutting out little pieces to stitch into arcs. It's a bit 'Catch-22' really - if I have lots of those already cut out I get a move on sewing. Then I run out of pieces, spend some time cutting out more, get fed up and want to see some progress. So I sew the just-cut-out pieces together into arcs, then get stuck (and bury it again) because I have no more pieces to join into arcs...

Each Craft Fair I go to, I have a look at the 'curvemaster' machine foot demonstration, think I need one, then talk myself out of it. I am getting closer to buying it, but I don't know if I'm better off finishing this quilt by hand. I think I can ease the curves better if I do it by hand, but I see endless days of fitting curves together properly and shudder. Oh well, since I don't have the foot, I will still be working by hand till next year's show anyway!

So perhaps I will just gaze longingly at the growing pile of arcs and wonder why a beginner quilter ever thought that hand piecing a double wedding ring was a sane thing to try...

thanks for taking a peek over the fence...

Wednesday, 3 February 2010

Oh Brother!

Here is a picture of my Brother sewing machine...or rather the space where my sewing machine belongs.

It went to 'hospital' on Monday and it still hasn't called in (I do worry about the children when they don't keep in contact). I sympathise with The Handmaden who has had a similar story in the past week.

All I have to console myself with is what I managed to get done before the 'breakdown'

Here's me madly chain piecing Minky's quilt (remember the new year resolutions)

She might have even had a complete quilt top before her birthday (Feb 5) if I could have sewn 24 hrs a day for the past 3 days (self-delusion is one of my more attractive traits!)

The Mariners Compass is waiting patiently for it's next border. The border will have 29 pieced paisley hearts in red and reddish tones.