Quilts can be pesky things to photograph well but your chances of getting good photos will be enhanced if you read and heed the thoughtful guidelines of Holly Knott and Andy Laird which are posted on Holly’s website at: www.hollyknott.com/stq/index.htm I’m sure that many of us will find this a useful resource.
Who needs a gym?
when your local council provides your very own stairmaster: Actually, there are many sets of steep stairs around Copacabana connecting those from the “dress circle” to the beach. This particular stairmaster has 58 steps conveniently spaced a stretched stride apart with a wicked incline from about step 32. It seems like no matter how many […]
A Quiet Weekend – Well Kind Of
Twas a quiet weekend – at least all quiet on the sewing and packing front. Back in Guild Exhibition Secretary land, it was a flurry of activity as we have allocated quilt numbers for this year’s record 377 (count them!) entries and I am now able to generate a bunch of different spread sheets, letters, […]
Quilting in French
I am indebted to Francoise from Belgium for coming out of lurkdom to introduce herself, her new blog space AND for letting me know: “To quilt” translates into “matelasser”. But for the craft, we say “quilt’ or “patchwork”. And “quilter” for the verb. “Quilteuse” for the (usually old) lady who does it. Francoise also writes […]
Some reasons to celebrate
Yesterday was our two year anniversary of taking up full time residence here at Casa da Praia (Portguese for beach house) at the “other” Copacabana and our five year wedding anniversary. To mark these two occasions, and to prepare for exploring the Pyrenees and the Yorkshire Dales, David and I decided to take our new […]
I’d Rather Be Quilting
But the time has come to tackle my “to do” list – it keeps getting longer and there are only a few more sleeps until we go on holiday. An unexpected (and unwelcome!) item appearing on this list was having to migrate my website to a new web hosting service. So that consumed a great […]