After a day in the city on quilt show business, my head is spinning. I’ve been tagged with the ‘7 things you don’t know about me’ meme but I prefer to let a little mystery continue. Instead, here are a couple of [clickable] quilting progress shots:
Technique:Quilting
Strata Embellishment
While I experimented with embroidery as a teenager, I am VERY rusty. My Mum is an accomplished embroiderer and a good coach but, in her absence, I consult The Embroidery Stitch Bible by Betty Barndon. It is a spiral bound book so it sits flat and the layout and instructions are clear and informative: […]
The beauty of going backwards (sometimes)
Last week, Heather posed a technique question: How is backwards stitching used in quilting? How would it eliminate the stopping and turning corners? I just can’t seem to picture it in my mind how it would be different from forward quilting. The beauty of using the reverse stitching/quilting function on your sewing machine is that […]
Pohutukawa Quilt Update
Thanks to Caity for her kind comments on the colour composition of this quilt and for sending so many people to have a look. I have the borders on now: And I’ve started quilting: Continuing the New Zealand flavour, I am quilting with a koru motif. Back to quilting…
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 […]
Thread shopping
As I contemplated a couple of quilt tops, I surveyed my thread collection and realised there are some gaps in my palette, particularly in the earth tones. Off to my local thread supplier, Althea’s Threads and Needles, and look what I came home with: It may look extravagant but I purchased 45 spools for less […]