Straight and Narrow Challenge Quilt
Ahem. This is the quilt for QuiltArt Straight and Narrow Challenge. I’m on a high from the glue spray I used => why don’t I ever follow advice? Don’t breathe this stuff friends of…
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Journal archive
February 2005
From the journal archive.
22 entries
Sunday at the Beach
A big day of fishing and sailing in Inverloch Around 4pm the beach was inundated with fishermen. Riscy told me that he saw a rat and it ran up one of these trees. I hate rodents!…
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Sunday Pastels
All the skeins so far from my dyed fleece. I’ve decided against knitting this into a vest… the wool is too crispy feeling. I think I crochet it into granny rug squares with some…
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Two Posts in One Day
In the spirit of me returning to my sewing room I present a finished quilt, I was so keen to have this finished, I sewed the binding by machine instead of by hand. Hand would have…
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Photoshop Fun
Computer innards look pretty fascinating to me. I was admiring an old graphics card today, I love the minature roads and houses and decided to take a photo or two. Graphics Card I…
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In the Mail
I received this postcard in the mail today from my sister Meg. Chicken Pox by MegLeg Meg is a painter. I think she’s having trouble doing art consistently as a young mother of an…
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Too busy for Creating
Well this sucks! Last night was the first time in ages that I haven’t created anything. We had our last game of touch footy in the round robin season, we had to win to make it to…
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The Knitting Bag is FINISHED!
Bev’s Knitting Bag I’ll be sad to give this one away, but I’m sure Bev will get plenty of use out of it 🙂 We attended the Victorian Chilli Festival in Jindivick today. The…
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A Bit of Everything
Tonight I did a bit of everything: Cooking – I made vietnamese noodle soup called pho. This was my favourite food when I lived in Vietnam in 1996. Reading – I got another lot of…
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More knitting and spinning
I’ve got to finish the bag I started on Sunday so I can stop feeling guilty for spinning wool instead LOL. Check out today’s accomplishment This is the first skein of yarn I have…
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Spinning Corner
I spashed out and brought some fancy storage boxes from Freedom Funiture for my spinning supplies, wool etc. I have also found that they are good ‘tables for my flick carder,…
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Knitting Bag
Late last afternoon I started this bag, which I had planned to give to Bev today. I’m pleased with the way it’s turning out, but I don’t think I have time to finish it 🙁 This is…
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More Spinning
I’ve been busy spinning and dyeing this week. I’ve managed to ply every bit of yarn I’ve spun so far and I’m now faced with the daunting task of KNITTING something. I’ve stocked…
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Adventures with Dye
I don’t have a clue what I’m doing, but I won’t let it stop me from trying anyway: The Raw Product The fleece after washing. I forgot to pick the clumps apart in my excitement.…
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The Things You See
I had to go to Buchan today (yes it rhymes with the swear word and I get a jeuvenile pleasure from saying it). On the way there is a town with this in the main street: Monument on…
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Drum Roll Please
I present here my first ever bona fide hand spun yarn. My first hand spun yarn! Dark brown Corridale from Jumbuck Wools in Bairnsdale and dyed Ashford Corridale from Benambra Blue…
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Love Actually
We just watched Love Actually (again). I really like that film :-). Unfortunately that means I didn’t have time to completely finish my pear quilt… but I’ll show you the almost…
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Saturday, Saturday!!!
I’ve been quilting all afternoon. Here is a sneak preview, I hope to have the grand ‘reveal’ tomorrow night. Sneak peek at a new quilt project Yeah, Yeah, I know… those are pears…
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Meme
Deborah tagged me with this Meme, I too didn’t know what that meant. Total Amount of Music on your computer? We filled our 40G ipod, I’m told that’s a lot of music. The last CD…
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Back to the Spinning Wheel
I’m tired tonight, going to bed early… but not before I post some pics of the progress I’m making with my spinning. This is my first spool. I had a minor mishap caused by me…
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Smoked Out
I got back to my sewing machine. It seems like forever (well it has been over a week!) I previously posted that I love to draw pears… when I can’t think of anything to draw (most…
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The Journey
I almost didn’t blog tonight because as a quilter I’m doing a hell of a lot of spinning and there are only so many photos of a slowly growing spool of yarn that I can post here…
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