Tyabb in the afternoon
Tyabb is a tiny town with a growing number of second hand shops ranging from salvage through collectables to imported antiques. After my visit to the MPPi Quilt Show it was a good opportunity to do a...
View ArticleCostume and character
The Bendigo Art Gallery has built a reputation for staging wonderful textile exhibitions. The Costume Designer: Edith Head and Hollywood is on until 21 January. I visited on a very hot day, but this...
View ArticleWhat’s in the tin?
At dusk, after another unbearably sultry day, in a not so remote carpark, a car pulls in next to one that has been waiting a short while. Drivers get out, an exchange of greetings and then a rusty...
View ArticleMystery en plein air
It is Quiltville Mystery time and this year we are making Good Fortune, with colours inspired by Bonnie Hunter’s recent trip to China. I found a rather ordinary roll of fabric strips, probably a raffle...
View ArticlePerfect seam allowance
As you read previously, I am making the Bonnie Hunter Good Fortune Mystery using a turn of last century hand crank machine. This week’s clue calls for sewing half square triangles which means a bias...
View ArticleMystery Maths
The size and colours I am using for the Bonnie Hunter Good Fortune Mystery are determined mathematically. I am using a precut strip roll which has four colourways in unequal proportions. This dictates...
View ArticlePause
The no sew option for Part 4 of the Bonnie Hunter mystery gave me the time needed to catch up on the first three parts. I was making great progress, hand cranking through squares and triangles then...
View ArticleMystery revealed
As soon as I saw the complete Good Fortune quilt I knew changes had to be made. To start, there were lots of borders and that does not work when you are making a less than full size version. A quarter...
View ArticleCleared
It seemed an impossible task; to get my cutting table free of all the stuff that was either a work in progress, or put there to free up space somewhere else. Miraculously, it has been done. But not...
View ArticleDevilish details
Who would have thought I would not only know how these edge treatments were executed…but also have a pretty good go at doing some for myself. Here is the general sequence of 4″ samples from my first...
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