tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69876006827824724172024-03-19T01:46:24.607-07:00fabric-scrap-happySewing, weird knitting, recycling/upcycling and lots of ideas to improve on and copy! All in the absence of whinging.........Penny Chatteyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05726351355677980314noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6987600682782472417.post-46463519063227389422018-02-17T19:15:00.005-08:002018-02-18T09:38:44.368-08:00<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">George Clarkes Amazing Spaces (Channel 4). I've been mourning leaving my big house and wild back garden for a tiny flat and not being able to build my cob house or geodesic dome (hadn't done that in the previous 2 years though....). Suddenly realised that I am in my own Tiny House now. What a numpty!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">News reports of the new portraits of President Obama and Michelle Obama. I really like the portrait of Michelle Obama (ok, it looks more like a singer than the First Lady) but I loved her dress especially when I found out it was based on a <a href="https://vimeo.com/50174695">Gee's Bend</a><span id="goog_1886812481"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a><span id="goog_1886812482"></span> quilt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This set me off on another Internet time-destroyer, looking for pixelated quilts - soon lost interest. Not pixels then but circles or balls. I started falling off Vimeo and the Gee's Bend quilts and landing on YouTube and finding <a href="http://www.jessikajacob.com/vmpgkak7vht2ianbh1194z0iqfus7e">Jessika Jacob</a> and her amazing artwork of just different sized painted dots. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This lead onto searching for 'textile art' on www.thisiscolossal.com and found Multi-coloured Orbs by Serena Garcia Dalla Venezia</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.thejealouscurator.com/blog/">The Jealous Curator</a>. This blog showcases contemporary artists and podcasrs of interviews with them. Check out the Gallery and Podcast pages - they are amazing!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Also, spent a lot of time on the <a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/press/news/2017/open-access">the Metropolitan Museum of Art</a> and it's online collections, with images free to use as you wish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Sewing:</u> Those damn, damn, damn cushion covers for the Cricket Club. Note to self: stop offering to do stuff I don't want to do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Used my bread machine to bake a loaf. Dear oh dear oh dear - it was so scrummy! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Working my way through The Atlantic's 50 best podcasts of 2017 starting with #50 - Alone by Michelle Parise <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/radio/alone">here</a>. Almost skipped this one as it's a love story (yuk) but it's really good. The author is a Canadian (oh, Canada...!) journalist and the story is not sappy. Love stories are something I avoid like the plague normally but I am glad I stuck with this one. Love podcasts whilst I'm sewing (or sprawling....)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Radio 4:</u> Nicola Sturgeon on 'A Good Read' talking about how important reading fiction is to understand other people lives and recommending books she has particularly enjoyed on her Twitter feed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Silent Witness on BBC1. I've not watched this before but am really enjoying it. Stories are in 2 parts but both parts are in the same week so there's some chance of not forgetting the plot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Spiral on BBC2. French detective drama. Main character is female and in charge but she's a bit sappy. Still hooked on Scandi noir but giving others a chance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">How to Get away with Murder, series 3. All really far fetched but better escapism than other wallpaper tv like Eastenders or Coronation Street, both of which are becoming more and more unbelievable. If I'm going to suspend belief, I'd rather it be for a better story!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Took me ages to find this again and subscribe. It's now owned by The Quilting Company (quiltingcompany.com) and takes a real bit of work to find QNNtv videos but I watched Thomas Knauer Design Studio - Palimpsest (no, I don't know what it means either!). This video shows how to use print to quilt your project and I shall use these ideas on my quilt challenge for my local quilt group <a href="http://mimramquilters.org.uk/">Mimram Quilters</a> which I shall start sewing next week after finishing (finally) all the Cricket Club cushions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51kl6IqUtck">Needle threading witchery!</a> I tried but can't do it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Still can't find my little sewing tins with all my equipment in from moving, so recovering some cushions for local Cricket Club - yawn, yawn, yawn........</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today was fab! Shevvy did a show and tell about improvisational quilting and had loads of pieces with her. Basically, it's wonky log cabin, wonky stars etc but she had made 2 really cute little bags by sewing together lots of left over triangles. She also had a great quilt (sadly, didn't fit into my backpack......shame.....) She had cut 3"x2" rectangles and sewed left-over triangles on 2 opposite corners then just sewed the rectangles together. Simplest ideas always the best, aren't they. This is another similar quilt she showed but using the same idea of triangles sewn onto 2 opposite corners. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Quite hard to see how simple the pattern as the feathers are just amazing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Shevvy is so good at explaining stuff and even better at making everyone feel confident to try improv. quilting. I so enjoyed this day!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Shevvy blogs <a href="http://shevvylondon.blogspot.co.uk/">here</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and the London Modern Quilt Guild blog is <a href="https://londonmqg.wordpress.com/">here</a></span></div>
Penny Chatteyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05726351355677980314noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6987600682782472417.post-48327792765272426292015-02-10T13:57:00.004-08:002015-02-10T14:24:44.485-08:00January swaps - better late than never?!<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is my January postcard swap to Jane in Idaho (part of the monthy postcard swap <a href="http://www.quiltingboard.com/">here</a>, posted just after January perished! It really isn't as wonky as it looks? Must pin down stuff so it doesn't look so manky!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But, the seams on the other set were too small to rebaste so, they were used here. I think this flower is even more effective, even though I am crushed by my carelessness. Here is how Janet used them and I'm just so impressed:-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was especially mortified as Janet runs the swap <a href="http://inchyhexagonswap.blogspot.co.uk/">http://inchyhexagonswap.blogspot.co.uk</a> and I sent silly-sized hexies to her.....well, you live and learn, don't you! Incidentally, Janet also blogs <a href="http://cariboucrossingchronicles.blogspot.co.uk/">here</a> and I've been following her for ages - it's a small World.</span></div>
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Penny Chatteyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05726351355677980314noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6987600682782472417.post-71574095215017676692015-02-10T13:47:00.000-08:002015-02-10T13:47:03.575-08:00Codicote Tuesday - February<div style="text-align: justify;">
Codicote Tuesdays make my heart fill with joy: wonderful, inspirational company and lots of laughs. What more can a person want or need. Well today, we got a glimpse of Honor's Di Ford quilt and it is just amazing. Such detailed hand-work. Truly, an heirloom.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A moment of twee-ness! I grew up with the 'Little House...' tv series and today is the 148th birthday of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the author. So, I'm going to read the first one in the series tonight, published in 1932:</span></div>
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Less twee and far more accurate and properly researched will be Pioneer Girl, the real memoir of Wilder's life that was rejected as 'not suitable for young children'. It was published last Autumn by <a href="http://pioneergirlproject.org/2013/07/09/pa-ingalls-fact-or-fiction/">the South Dakota Historical Society Press</a> but is consistently out of stock. It is on Amazon though but it's quite expensive at around £25. Being <strike>cheap</strike> keen to use my local Library, I've reserved it.</div>
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Then I thought, I should make a Little House quilt............Nah......a modern Dear Jane would be better. But how to do it? I don't want it to be pictorial but a block design from a modern icon, logo, whatever. You know, like the Corns and Beans block doesn't actually look like corns and beans - that sort of thing. Need to think on a bit.......</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is such an inspirational exhibition of around 50 quilts made by beginners to clearly very advanced members of London Quilters. It's also, the magic word, free! I had such a good day there today and spent quite some time at the Workshop table learning how to raw edge applique circles. Others were sewing squares together for baby quilts and some were make cathedral window blocks. There will be a workshop there each Saturday from 10am-4pm and all that is asked in return, is to buy a raffle ticket for this quilt made by the members:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I asked for icy and pastel colours for my quilt. These are the ones I received from Jan in Georgia, USA and they are just perfect!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The photo really doesn't do them any justice - they are much brighter. I need to really learn how to use photoshop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I forgot to take a photo of the ones I sent to Edda in Iceland. Damn! Only this sneak preview one that I should have posted on the Inchy site:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Penny Chatteyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05726351355677980314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6987600682782472417.post-71294184148495978682014-09-02T15:32:00.000-07:002014-09-02T16:31:15.970-07:00Crazy Quilting Sampler with Button-Button<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm also taking part in this swap over <a href="http://button-button.co.uk/">here</a>. I can't just do as I'm told so instead of making a square, I made a circle.....and covered both sides. And, I sewed the pieces onto wadding instead of fabric. I pieced it by the stitch and flip method explained on Julie's blog <a href="http://button-button.co.uk/crazy-quilting-tutorial-part-1-making-patchwork/">here</a>. I didn't sew up to the outside 1/2" and turned those to tidy the sides of each 'arm'. I've no idea what happened on the right-hand side?!? I just whip stitched the edges.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the bowl sewn together with some of the stitches that Julie showed <a href="http://button-button.co.uk/crazy-quilting-part-2-embellishing/">here</a> and <a href="http://button-button.co.uk/crazy-quilting-sampler-part-3-more-stitchin/">here</a>. Julie uses a wall paper seam roller for pressing like I do! You can't see the stars I embroidered up the joins on the front or the herringbone stitch joining the sides on the back or the button-hole stitch around the central circle. Just as well, I think!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm going to make more bowls as we had the most inspiring talk by Sheila Cetti who showed lots of her quilts and fabric and yarn bowls which she just tossed across the room to members! You can see some images from that evening <a href="http://icknieldquilters.co.uk/page32.html">here</a>. I'm making a more traditional crazy quilted bowl at the moment, using the first photo on Julie's Pinterest board <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/juliezryan/crazy-quilting/">here</a> and will use most of the stitches on Julies' pages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm also taking part in Julie's Orange Peel Quiltalong <a href="http://button-button.co.uk/orange-peel-quilt-along-materials/">here</a> but just cannot decide on my fabric choices - oh make a decision! I really liked Brioni Greenberg's Petals, which was a workshop at FQR, so will likely use this colour combination.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Secret Sister package arrived from Celine. OMG as the young people say. It's just amazing.......</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She has a really good blog with lots of ideas and inspiration </span><a href="http://espritpatch.blogspot.co.uk/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">here</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> which I can highly recommend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A great modern quilt (and I just joined the London Modern Quilt group), a mug, a Yankee candle (I just love those), ahhhh Paris stickers, super-smooth lip butter, a sewing case and pincushion (ooohh hexies!), stitch ripper and ribbons including two really snazzy French ribbons, a notebook and 3 pretty pens and 2 bars of Green and Blacks chocolate - no, I don't know where the other bar went? Finally, and best of all, good quality thin applique pins (I've been searching for fine applique pins for ages and these are just perfect to continue with my Green Tea workshop with Jen Kingwell at the Fat Quarterly Retreat a little while ago). I just love the quilt and have put it on my sewing wall to remind me how important friends, especially quilty ones, are.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've packed some hexies to piece in my new sewing kit to take out with me tomorrow for some guerrilla basting in Clinic!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm just so thrilled with my Secret Sister swap - many, many thanks Celine - it's just perfect!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope my Secret Sister won't be disappointed with her small swap package. I sent a notebook in a golfing cover </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And a cat that I adapted from my Body Farm Bears pattern. I made the legs slightly longer and it actually stands up on it's own by <strike>pure accident</strike> design improvement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Penny Chatteyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05726351355677980314noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6987600682782472417.post-21090537586605802572014-07-27T01:24:00.001-07:002014-07-31T10:08:47.090-07:00Tidying the garden - who knew what I might find!?!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Can't believe my luck! Bethany and <strike>me</strike> <strike>I</strike> me were cutting down the branches of my over-hanging trees, so that Jo Public could actually use the footpath behind my garden without fear of loosing their heads, and what did we find!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Firstly, this tree:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I know, I know. How hard is it to loose a tree...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But, what's this? Limes?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, we consulted Dr Google and, guess what?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's an conker (Horse Chestnut) tree!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've lived here for 24 years and this is the first time this tree has had anything weird on it (except for the boys, when they were younger) but had they known about this, it wouldn't just have been cherry pips they threw over the fence at poor unsuspecting passers-by. Could have been a serious problem.........</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's not all good news though. My 'bumper' harvest of runner beans: all 4 pods, was a huge disappointment. Not because of the <strike>paucity</strike> number, but the un-eatable-ness (surely there's a proper word for this?). They were woody and chewy, completely inedible (ah, there's the word). Turns out, they were borlotti beans and should have been dried. Well, there's always next year to exercise my <strike>black</strike> green thumb! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But, that's not all. We found this nest with 2 pigeon eggs in it. I know we're not supposed to encourage pigeons, but...........</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had the most amazing time at my first Fat Quarterly Retreat. It was just so much more than I had expected: truely lovely people, fantastic tutors,workshops - what more could anyone want......! Oh yes, a goodie bag!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Friday class was the Mail Organiser, that gave everyone here a good laugh - organised? Really? This is as far as I got but I think I really got to grips with foundation piecing and if my trusty old Bernina really is terminal, I now know that I want a Janome XL601. It made me jump a few times (electric-trickery and all that new fangled stuff) but once I got used to it, well....... want one, want one, want one! It was so quiet....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These are everyone else's. How did I manage to not put mine on the table? Ah well, underneath is my stab at foundation piecing. I think I really have got to grips with it now, at last. Although, apparently, I haven't got to grips with Picasa!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is my effort that leads a bit of pressing, although Jen told us that she never presses her blocks until the whole quilt is finished. Don't think I can wait until then to 'encourage' mine to lay flat! This is as far as I got, but Jen explained hand-piecing so well and now I know that matching edges greatly improves stitching accurately on the marked lines, with only the occasional flipping over and checking. N</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ow I know what to do with that tiny (add a 1/4")brass wheel I've had for years!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beautiful drawstring bag made by Di of willowbeckdesigns.blogspot.co.uk</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sadly, I didn't get to the Retreat on Sunday: my new kidney had to recover from the shock of buying all that Oakshot fabric the night before! I'm so pleased that Sue (Libertyjsy) was kind enough to send me the raffle prize I was lucky enough to win - another Jen Kingwell pattern, the Circle Game - yippee!!</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Although I missed out on the Oakshot fabric and Fractured Quilt workshop (sob..), Sue also sent me a copy of the instructions for the Fabulously Fast Quilt workshop. So, if you ever get to read this Sue, thank you!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I just can't wait for next year now and to meeting all those lovely ladies when I'm feeling a bit more on form. Roll on 2015!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I can hardly breathe I so excited to be going to my first retreat tomorrow. I'm going to the Fat Quarter Retreat in London and just can't wait. I'm not at all worried about going there on my own and I wouldn't even have known about it if I hadn't joined the Siblings Together Bee 2. So, I am very grateful to those kind ladies who never once complained about my poor piecing or lateness! I've not yet met a quilter I didn't like - shame that couldn't all say the same thing! I also made a complete hash of adding my blog to their blog - I did it twice. Sort of. And, I'm still not sure I've done it right....ah, well!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is my Sibling Together Bee 2 Quilt and that's the first thing on my list to finish. I seem to remember thinking last Monday that I should, perhaps, start quilting it? My usually trusty old Bernina just went into a complete sulk for not giving her notice in triplicate several weeks earlier, so I had to quilt it by hand.....! Arggghhhhhhh............. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I was binding it today I noticed 6 un-quilted squares but.....I don't have time to stitch them today: I still haven't prepared the linings for the Mail Organiser workshop tomorrow. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm also taking the Screen Printing and Sweet Tea and Green Beans (I know this is the wrong title for the workshop but you will understand the name change once I mess it up completely!) on Saturday and the Fractured Quilt workshop on Sunday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I still haven't cut all my strips for the strip swap. Or, packed up all my sewing stuff and fabrics for tomorrow. Or sorted out what I will be wearing (can't believe it will be in the '30's - I will explode. I hate the sun, heat and all that hideous Summer stuff! Roll on Winter and grey coloured slush! We might get a thunderstorm though, so that will make up for a lot!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These are my 'body farm' bears that I am taking to the swap. They are neither use nor decoration, as my mother used to say, so quite appropriate from me. Get out your violins now....!</span></div>
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Off now to print name badges for my bears......ooooh nooooo! Haven't made my name badge yet either. Perhaps I should just write pilchard on my forehead instead.....</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here I am in my local paper. I was so happy to be included in the event and so enjoyed the day, chatting to people and helping to sign up many to the NHS Organ Donation Register. But...</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">..shock...horror...how huge I am!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I have been racking my brains to remember all the advice I have been given in the past to help me loose weight and here's what I remember:-</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Make gallons of veggie soup </b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Plan each day's meals beginning with 5 portions of veggies and 2 portions of fruit</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Look up portion sizes and measure everything for the first couple of days and then once a week so portion sizes don't sneakily increase</b> <i>'<strike>it's not the portion size that increased, it must have been the spoons..honest</strike></i>'</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Have around 400kcal/meal</b> <i><strike>but, sadly, only 3 meals a day. Can people really survive on that?</strike></i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>If you're still really starving later in the evening</b> <i><strike>God, yes I am...</strike></i> <b>have a bowl of packet porridge but put it off for half an hour, when the time's up try to put it off a little longer.</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>If a meal is missed, it's gone</b> <i><strike>can't have double for the next meal...</strike></i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Drink plenty during the day</b> <i><strike>apparently, not alcohol. Strange?</strike></i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Try to keep busy or distracted during your 'stuffing your face with abandon' time</b> <i><strike>not allowed to keep busy by cooking chips or the like</strike></i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Clean teeth when wanting to eat extra</b> <strike>but <i>I've just got used to the mixture of toothpaste and cheese..</i></strike></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Don't buy unhealthy food or food that you know will start a binge. It's not good for you or your family</b> <i><strike> and you can't pretend it's for the children/friends/pets/passing burglars..</strike></i></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Lengthen your stride to ensure hips are engaged</b> <i><strike>all of them..</strike></i></span></li>
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Penny Chatteyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05726351355677980314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6987600682782472417.post-19414639536774037162014-07-02T03:06:00.002-07:002014-07-02T03:23:31.688-07:00Look away if you might be offended.....!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Usually, I'm quite a fuddy-duddy patchworker but just occasionally, something really sparks something...I saw Annabel Rainbow's quilt previously (and was quite shocked that h</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">er pieces were frowned on by some with a lot of tutting and head-shaking) </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">at the NEC. I soon started <strike>stalking</strike> following her online and started reading a magazine that she started with her friend Linda Kemshall. This is a </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">free online magazine</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and I think it's just the bees' knees. Have a good wander around this ISSUU site, too. I couldn't quite believe how many free, high quality magazines are on this site about all matter of subjects.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the <a href="http://issuu.com/laurakemshall/docs/throughourhandsmagazinemay2014final">second issue</a> of the magazine, the first issue can be found <a href="http://issuu.com/laurakemshall/docs/throughourhandsissue1">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And, <a href="http://annabelrainbow.co.uk/">Annabel Rainbow</a> is the lady who's work I love. Please don't be offended and, apologies if you are but I just think her work is honest about how our bodies truly are and these are only a small part of her work!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She has also written a free e-book about her method of working. Of course, I have downloaded but not yet read it!</span>Penny Chatteyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05726351355677980314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6987600682782472417.post-47097614336749444182014-06-29T15:15:00.000-07:002014-06-29T15:15:20.989-07:00Scrap bags and what I made with them - the before.......<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are such lovely people at my quilt group, Icknield Quilters. They save up their scraps for me! I used to put them all in a box together but have now started to keep the bags as they were given to me and to then take them back to the group so that person can see what I have made with their scraps - with a dead-line for their use!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is a pile of pieced bits that I've managed to bury but I'll post all the bits and what I used them for before July 8th (so I'm ready to take them to the next IQ meeting)!</span></div>
Penny Chatteyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05726351355677980314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6987600682782472417.post-22377239896960914062014-06-28T10:36:00.000-07:002014-06-28T10:36:52.648-07:00Back to the Body Farm.....<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've slightly revised my pattern for the Body Farm Bear. I now print the pattern onto the fabric (buy sticking the fabric right-side down onto freezer paper, then putting it through the printer manually) and folding it in half. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is just a pile of such double-fabric pieces for hand sewing underneath this heap. I hope you can see where I've sewn on the top pieces. I have tried to sew this by machine but the pieces are prohibitively too small for the machine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yet again, such fab pressing!</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">SB2 is a group of quilters that is a UK only off-shoot from the Siblings Together Flickr group. We all are making quilts for a charity, Siblings Together, that supports children separated by the Care system which provides a summer camp so that they can have a holiday with their siblings.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Sibling Bees have taught me a lot! Having mostly sewn by hand and only pieced my own stuff before, I now realise that my cutting had a lot to be desired and, as for 1/4" seams, well...what can I say? Apparently, it's not just enough to have a quarter inch foot on your machine - you actually have to use it! I've marked the 1/4" with masking tape on my machine and now see that the edge of the foot should actually follow the edge of the fabric (actually, a thread or two in from the edge of the fabric). Who knew......?!? Think I should have!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, those ladies who received my 2 blocks each month must be angels! Nobody 'returned to sender'! I learnt a lot and it just shows that we can all too often become complacent with what we do. All of a sudden, my stuff actually looks good...well, I never!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, excuses excuses excuses now out of the way, these are the blocks:-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm fi</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">nally over nasty infections in my new kidney, problems with Blogger and inaccessible InterNOT, so I no longer have any excuses for not getting some posting done, at last! I think when they put that new kidney in, some of my mojo slide out. It's been gone for a long time but, it's finally slinked home thanks to all the lovely ladies and their interesting blocks in the Siblings Together Bee 2! More to come about SB2.........</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I can't quite believe that I found one of my quilts on Pinterest! Amazing! And, on quite a few boards! The blog it came from said that the centre had been painted.....oh, no it wasn't! It was painstakingly and never again, pieced! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The blocks are from the Dear Jane book but I altered the size to give it a bit of a 3-D effect and the background is the Confederate Flag (of the time when the original quilt was made). It's all hand pieced and a never-to-be-repeated project!</span></div>
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<br />Penny Chatteyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05726351355677980314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6987600682782472417.post-47816400248419120352012-06-14T07:20:00.001-07:002012-06-14T07:22:36.686-07:00Oh nooooo.....what will I do now...?<a href="http://www.wwwdotcom.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Press here for the worst news ever!</span></a>Penny Chatteyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05726351355677980314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6987600682782472417.post-15917907909854848862012-06-11T09:01:00.001-07:002012-06-11T09:01:09.945-07:00This is another project for the drawing board<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't know quite what the outcome will be, but I'm having a shot at doing one of these of me. Not quite as accomplished, but mine will be a lot easier to do, given all the empty space! My son took the picture of my silhouette and <strike>when he finished laughing</strike> thought it an excellent project to attempt. Isn't this one just so goooood? It's from <a href="http://welcometoprojectville.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/detailed-self-portrait-diy.html">here</a></span></div>
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<br />Penny Chatteyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05726351355677980314noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6987600682782472417.post-43960931254533685162012-06-11T08:40:00.000-07:002012-06-11T09:04:19.215-07:00Let's get it started...(or, cut up and put in a box)<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These are the two scrappy wallhangings in the works. They both use 1" strips and 1" squares. The first is called 'Ohmygosh' and is by Sue Garman. I forget where you can find the pattern but it is alternating blocks of Double Nine Patch and Churn Dash, and I think it's the bees knees. It's from Sue Garman's site <a href="http://suegarman.blogspot.co.uk/">here</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The other is from one of my favourite blogs OhFransson <a href="http://www.ohfransson.com/">here</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a map of the Tokyo Underground, but mine will be of the London Underground (minus rats, buskers...............)</span></div>Penny Chatteyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05726351355677980314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6987600682782472417.post-10698276260505321482012-06-05T01:36:00.001-07:002012-06-05T01:42:16.559-07:00Press on link below to Make Everything OK!<a href="http://make-everything-ok.com/">The magic button — Make Everything OK</a>Penny Chatteyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05726351355677980314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6987600682782472417.post-76538811556846137172012-05-05T14:03:00.000-07:002012-05-06T13:24:23.403-07:00Patchwork Concertina Art Book<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cut a piece of heavy card, slightly smaller (about an 1/8") in both directions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cut a piece of lining fabric (I used calico, as it will not be seen), and cover the card, either by stitching or glueing:-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cut a piece of wadding (any sort you want to use up) the slightly smaller than your piece of card (again, about 1/8th"). Glue it on with tiny dabs of PVA or School Glue:-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lay a length of ribbon, long enough to tie into a bow on each side, across the centre from left to right. This will be the closure. <span style="color: blue;">You might wish to knot a loop of elastic and sew to one side, but remember you will have to sew the matching button to the main fabric of the other cover before layering.</span> Place your fabric/pieced fabric on top, right sides up and whip stitch/glove maker stitch/buttonhole stitch to the lining fabric, catching the ribbon/elastic but not the card:-</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Make a second cover for the back, in the same manner and exactly the same size.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next cut a length of Cartridge paper, about 1/8th" smaller than the height of your book cover. Lay one end on top of your book cover and fold so that the folded piece fits comfortably on the lining side of the cover. Concertina fold the paper until it is all used. Cut to the last whole page.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The book may be opened from either side. It doesn't really matter if you've mixed up the covers and your book opens from top to bottom (unless of course, the covers have a picture!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It doesn't matter which side you use, as opening from the pink cover uses one side of the paper and opening from the blue cover uses the other side of the paper.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, have some chocolate, and that's an order!</span></div>Penny Chatteyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05726351355677980314noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6987600682782472417.post-54169543768422762442012-05-05T13:42:00.002-07:002012-05-05T14:30:16.643-07:00Handbag Tissue pack cover<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Seam allowance is 1/4" throughout</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are using Kleenex tissue packs you need to cut the <span style="background-color: yellow;">main fabric at 6" x 5 3/4</span>". If you are not binding and are hemming your edges or if you have bought another make of tissues, see blue box below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cut <span style="background-color: yellow;">binding at 1" x 5 3/4"</span> (or head-foot measurement)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First , measure you pack of tissues all around the 'tummy' and all around from head-foot-head. The head-foot-head measurement is then halved (giving a head-foot measurement) and 1/2" is added for seam allowances.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are binding your open edges, your main piece of fabric should be cut to the actual measurements for all around the pack. <span style="color: red;">I cut my fabric at the actual measurement as I am binding my open edges. . So, I cut the main fabric to the same 'tummy' measurement. If you are hemming, remember to add the seam allowances, as seen below. I added the 1/2" seam allowance to the head-foot measurement</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"> I cut my main fabric at 6" and the head-foot-head at 5 3/4" </span><span style="color: blue;"> </span>If you are hemming the opening edges you need to add 1/2", if turning over once and 3/4" , if turning the hem over twice (this is much tidier)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Add binding strips to both sides of the main fabric, making sure that the binding strip and edge lengths match. Press towards the binding strip, then flip fabric over and press raw edge of the binding strips to meet raw edges of seams:-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">LEFT edge shows the main fabric pressed towards the binding</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The binding is then top stitched to hold it in place. Too late for glue...?</span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is when you realise that your ruler is broken and you have cut your main fabric far too wide (it's supposed to look almost like a square. How does this happen? Well, if you <strike>have to chop a bit out</strike> want to add to your design, why not add in the binding fabric in the centre?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Turn the fabric piece over so that the right side is uppermost. Fold the edges towards the centre. You could fold the entire piece in half and finger crease the centre and fold both edges towards the centre to make the opening exactly central.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, sew down both top and bottom. Just to confuse you, this is now sideways on - so sorry, the Houseboy will now be beaten.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next, poke your finger into one of the points and flatten it so that you have a triangular point on the right and the binding vertically on the immediate left. Sounds confusing but if you do just that (hopefully!) all will become clear! That Houseboy has lost this picture - you just can't get the staff. The object is to make a boxed bottom at the head and foot of your case (exactly as you would make a bag bottom) When sewn, it should look like this:-</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chop off the ends of the triangular points parallel with the seam just sewn and cut off any long threads. Save these for another project - you will never throw anything away again - you partners will love me for that!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Turn right sides out and stuff in your tissue pack. I think it's quite important to make the case fit snugly - it just looks nicer.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, have a cuppa!</span></div>Penny Chatteyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05726351355677980314noreply@blogger.com0