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Sunrise Over the Belait continued
In my last post I descirbed how I painted and prepapred the background for my latest wall hanging. The picture below shows the next step with the palm fronds pinned in place ready to be fused, then...
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Birds and Flowers_2
It’s been far too long since I updated my blog and one of my New Year’s resolutions for this year is to write more regularly, so I hope I can stick to it. New year, new project and I have just started...
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Purple Challenge
I belong to an online challenge group linked to my Janome 6600 and 7700 sewing machines and last month’s project was to create something using at least five different purple fabrics. This appealed to...
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Jungle Leaves
I recently signed up for a Craftsy class with Gloria Loughman called “Linear Landscape Quilts”. It’s a really good class and the first sections on choosing colour schemes and fabric painting are...
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“Tumbling Birds”– The finished quilt
After several months and many, many hours of work my “Birds and Flowers” quilt is finally finished and hopefully on its way to Birmingham (or maybe even already there). Virtually all the applique was...
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Iban Design Continued
Recently I’ve been experimenting with the back basting method for hand appliqué after buying the excellent book “Back-Basting Appliqué Step by Step by Barbara J. Eikmeier. I have found it to be very...
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Seed Pod Reflected
I started work on a new appliqué quilt wall hanging in November and just got it finished last week. This design is inspired by the seed pods of the Pom Pom tree that one can find washed up on the beach...
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Isle of Wight landscapes
While I was at The Festival of Quilts last year I was impressed by the beautiful landscape quilts by Kathleen Matthews. I bought her book “Stitched Textile Landscapes” but it is only now, six months...
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Meet my friend
For the past few years I have been going back to England for the Festival of Quilts at the NEC in Birmingham and several years ago I met up with Deborah O’Hare from The Blue Hare and Quilt Routes....
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Forest Giant revisited
It doesn’t seem like like I’ve been back in Brunei a week already. In some ways it feels like I’ve been back longer, and the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham feels like an age away. Having my own stand...
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Flying Home
It has been an awful long time since I updated my blog but one of my new year’s resolutions for 2016 is to try and write more regularly, so here goes with my first post for 2016. I recently tried out a...
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First attempts at fabric design
I am between quilting projects at the moment so while waiting for inspiration I have been having a go at designing my own fabrics and was excited to receive the first samples of my work last week from...
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Ice dye vest top
I used to do a lot of dress making for myself, then quilting took over and I haven’t done anything for years. With my recent interest in fabric design for digital printing I was inspired to get my...
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