Knitting

Knitting a little something

Chris goes back to work tomorrow so I’m taking the opportunity to try and finish this little jacket… Only the sleeves and closures are left to do 🙂 I’m following a pattern (!)…

Summer Quilt Finished

A finished shot of the summer quilt, lounging on our overgrown lawn 🙂 I sewed this binding entirely by machine, knowing that it would probably take me forever to get around to…

Scrap Pile

Because of all the fabric ripping for this quilt, I have lots of skinny strips of fabric and tread nests hanging around my workroom. I love the colours. So I chucked a pile onto…

Summer quilt

On a whim. I sewed up this patchwork quilt top today. A ‘no cut’ quilt. I just ripped the fabric to size and merrily sewed away I’m now officialy run out of orangey fabrics and…

More Little White Quilts

Well. That was quicker than I thought it would be. These quilts were based on some drawings I did last week in a little moleskine book. Suprisingly, I really enjoy drawing over…

White quilts

White Diptych 1 Melbourne was good. Too much to reflect on here, but the ballet made me cry (New Romantics) and the theatre was spellbinding/hilarious/titilating (The Burlesque…

'Ello, ello!

What have we here?? I’m back, and I’m quilting. I just went through a little creative dry patch. They happen occasionally, I’ve blogged about it here before. It is a strange…

New Quilt

However, a weekend frame of mind sorted me out and within about 30 minutes of sitting down to work on it today, it came together. I’m going to sit back and do some hand quilting…

A Little Bit of Hand Quilting

Nothing Profound

Step

A New Handbag

Birdies

Quick and Dirty - Jar finished

Q&D - a quilt top already

A New Year - 2007

Party Weekend

11 Things

Number 1: I found the missing quilt tops in my box of handspun yarn. So I’m happy now 🙂 Number 2: Dijanne reminded me to mind my values. Yes the fundamentals. And yes I had…

The Last Disruption

Imprint - Top Finished

Disaster Averted

Last night I realised I had made a big, big mistake when choosing the values for the lower layers of my quilt. The light background teamed with the dark fingerprint left me no…

Imprint Progress

Imprint - Halfway there with the top

Another post featuring the fingerprint

Cutting

"Do we have any sticky tape?" Is the hardest question in the world

According to Riscy. I eventually found some black electrical tape to assemble the template for one of the background elements (fingerprint) in my new piece ‘Imprint’:

A Double Take

This afternoon, whilst procrastinating from ‘getting the house back in order now that the builders have gone’, I was browsing through the latest issue of Art Almanac and happened…

Quilted and Cut

Fusible Web - Oh How I Love Thee

My friend Monica emailed me today and asked how I get my images onto fabric, so I thought I’d provide a little info here for those who have never used or heard of fusible web.…

Grass

Dredger - Finished

Some Techincal Difficulties and a Breakthrough

And a quilting we shall go

It is hard to say how much more quilting I have to do on the Dredger Quilt, perhaps 1/4 maybe less. It depends how much quilting I do in the trusses. This is where I was at last…

Impeller

Ah, so the brain is starting to wander onto new creations… even though I have not finished the dredger quilt, not by a long shot. Behold, a germ of an idea for a new piece

When only stippling will do

This photo doesn’t show my quilting very well, but I decided to use medium stipple as a background for the branches. I will outline the branches in a darker colour and I will…

The Dreaded Dredger

Not the effect I was looking for. I found this quilting too dense and it distracted attention away from the branches. So I spent a good hour unpicking. Next Quilting Move: I’m…

Are you sick of the dredger quilt yet?

The real quilting has commenced – this is the river diversion section Morwell River has recently been diverted for the 5th time for the continuing expansion of Hazelwood Coal…

Hello There!

Taken before I got into the groove. I’ve used light blue taylors chalk to mark guide lines on my quilt… could be a mistake considering I don’t intend to wash it. I tried the soap…

I Should be out of my PJs and Ready for Work

So this will be a quick post I started quilting the Big Dredger Quilt: The start of stitching As I mentioned yesterday, I needed to take the step of setting up my sewing machine…

Big Dredger Quilt - A Major Step Forward

This was a bit like untangling spagetti, it took me many hours down on my knees to sort it out. YAY, the top is fused. Though my knees are sore from crawling around on the floor…

More dyeing - will I ever get this quilt started?

Another day another banner. The background image is taken from some dye play I did tonight. When I was processing the photo below I realised the lino print section (spectacularly…

Do I really hate this?

I like the pod shapes. I’m indifferent regarding the quilting I have done, I’m not in love with the colour I have added and the lack of background quilting is really turning me…

A Thanks and .... a bit of sewing!!!

Thanks for the comments on my last blog post. It suprised me how much better they made me feel. I’m sticking with the philosophy that the only way to get through time cruch work…

Challenges

I’m making progress with my piece for the journal project which needs to be posted early next week. Although I forgot to email the next participant for their snail mail adress…

Some Jewels and Some Spinning Content

More Jewels Darlings 🙂 They are so much fun, rather addictive and not really what I need to be working on. But what’s new? I’ve also been dyeing up some merino. And spinning some…

Claire. Plan before Dyeing

I’ve had excellent cotton dyeing results using Adriene Buffington’s book Hand Dyed Fabric Made Easy. I don’t follow the book 100% but I normally chart out my plans prior to dyeing…

Is Less Really More??

Tonight’s Jewels: Orange Brooch Pink Brooch Once again, too much stitching. The orange piece was very good before I went crazy and stiched it to oblivion THEN hacked it up, then…

Bracelet

I’m not 100% happy with this piece. But, wasn’t I just saying recently that I need to accept the crap with the good otherwise nothing would be created at all? Matchstick Bracelet…

Jewellery

Ok treasured readers of Little Fish, you may have wondered if I was off my nut yesterday when I mentioned that I would like to explore quilt jewellery. This is a little piece in…

A Finished Object, Motivation and Fitness

First, I want to show you a simple little bag I finished tonight. It is 25cm (10″) high, from tip of handle to bottom, and 20cm (8″) wide at the base. The body of the bag is made…

Amulet Challenge

It seems like forever ago that I signed up for the Amulet Challenge hosted by Becky Kelly. It’s a round robin format with four participants in each group. The moment has now come,…

Sewing Machine Blues

This time last year I invested in a new sewing machine. The Janome 6500, my dream machine. I’ve been neglecting her a bit lately in favour or the spinning wheel. But tonight, I…

New Do

BEFORE AFTER I’ve gone with a fringe. It’s very radical as I had various awful fringes in the 80’s and early 90’s, the horrors of my Nan putting stickytape across my fringe to get…

Hanging Sleeves SUCK!

What possessed me to enter two quilts into the local show??? I’m sewing hanging sleeves every night, and it is terrible. Way more tedious than sewing the bindings on by hand…. AND…

Sophie's Bag

Check out this fantastic Blog: Daily Dose of Imagery. When I grow up I want to be a photographer like this guy. I’ve just got to start taking photos consistently. Riscy and I have…

My well ordered existance

As promised here on this blog yesterday. I ventured into my sewing room to tidy up the mess that has been festering there for a few months. I get into a frenzy of creativity;…

Creativity Gone Awry

My creativity has lost focus. Not terribly suprising since I have recently taken up spinning and knitting and Linocut and drawing in addition to my interests in making art quilts…

Friday Yay!!

Whew! It’s Friday. We are just about to head into a series of 4 day working weeks 🙂 Its Labour Day here on Monday then we head into Easter. An old friend of mine from High School…

Slow Progress on the Shave for a Cure bag

Tonight I WILL finish the bag for the Shave for a Cure auction. My excuse for it taking me so long is that I decided it needed more quilting than I originally planned. The fabric…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…