When I showed my sister my baby quilt-in-progress, she reminded me that her friends had expressed a preference for the colour red. Mmm, I really quite like the colour red, not that you would know it from looking in my stash where it is strangely limited in appearance. In a flash of inspiration (my sisters […]
Archives for January 2007
Playing with Colours
I thoroughly enjoyed my dyeing workshop yesterday. In addition to reinforcing some techniques I was familiar with, I tried some new exercises. Here are some indicative results – gradient of greens; transition from blue to fuschia; and a triadic set: And here are some resist/shibori pieces. The first is folded fabric and the second […]
Way over in WA
I’m off to a dyeing workshop today and hope to post some photos later. In the meantime, I have been enjoying the “Visitor in Your Home Town” meme that is making the rounds. Vicarious travel is fun but I will soon be making a very real journey across the continent to Western Australia. I have […]
Finding my rhythm
Whenever it feels like I am starting to get bogged down in a project, or it has been a while since I have had a decent stretch at the sewing machine, I find it refreshing and rewarding to make a simple cot quilt that doesn’t require much concentration. Accordingly, today’s project is made up of […]
A New Dawn
I won’t give you a blow-by-blow analysis of my time-keeping results to date. Suffice to say that, quite predictably, actual quilting time has been minimal and then not especially productive. For example, believe it or not, this is all I have to show for 7+hours of quilting on Sunrise-Sunset: Whereas for Unplugged! I quilted the […]
A hive of industry
Whoops, Maggie’s Mum was meant to be much too busy to be reading my blog and seeing what we are up to. To preserve the surprise element, yesterday was decreed to be a no-blog day. Besides, Maggie and I have been very busy. Together we have made 15 small quilts in less than two days! […]