Category Archives: Knitting

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 finished quilt anyway (just the backing and binding to go)

It took me all day to quilt the background, which is a bunch of vertical lines. I then attacked it with paint to get a mottled background… It went from looking pretty cool to looking like a high school art project (or more so) 🙁 I’m going to finish it and hang it though ’cause our walls are too bare.

If I really hate it after a few months, I can always make something else and put this one on the bed for the cat to sit on LOL.

My second spinning class is tommorow. I’m going to learn how to ply. I was all set to start another spool this afternoon, but it didn’t seem to fit my wheel.
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I’ve been quilting all afternoon. Here is a sneak preview, I hope to have the grand ‘reveal’ tomorrow night.

Yeah, Yeah, I know… those are pears (what a suprise!). I’m going to hang this quilt next to our bookcase, that’s if I don’t wreck it tommorow, a real possibility since I plan to paint the background after I’ve quilted it!.

I’ve also been spinning, trying to make a veriegated yarn. I find it hard to get a consistent twist, so I could end up with a heap of useless crap, regardless, I’m going to attempt to knit it.

I was listening to Cyndi Lauper tonight, she’s great to quilt to, She Bop gets me everytime LOL
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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 of the time) I draw a pear. Tonight I drew eight… on my sewing machine.

I’m going to connect them all together into with my hand spun wool and they will be a concertina book… like the one I’ve been talking about for the Straight and Narrow Challenge on the QuiltArt list.

In fact this may BE my peice for the S&N challenge, as my childhood memory idea isn’t working for me at the moment.

I was inspired by June Underwood’s burned edge post the other week, so I tried it out on my little pieces. I breathed in a lot of smoke and now my throat is feeling scratchy, so next time I will do it outside. I’m pretty happy with the results but the edges are quite fragile which means they wont make a durable book.

On the spinning side of things. I’ve finished one spool. I tried to spin some merino, but it sucked (as I was told it would), so I’m going to leave it until I’m more experienced, that’s if I don’t felt it first LOL. Continue reading →

Things are getting back to normal with my blog (just the About Me page to set up), and also in my normal life (the tennis is now over; Lleyton lost the final, *sniff*).

Yesterday arvo I tried to sit down for a couple of hours to do some sketching for my challenge quilt. I drew one thing, then got really sleepy and had to put my head down on my desk for a little shut eye.

I’m not happy with my progress even though I have six sketches (I plan to do 10 panels), I just can’t help but think I have come up with a very uninteresting idea 🙁 I like the concertina book idea, it’s the cartoon sketching part I’m not sure about, the images aren’t right.

Should I be diciplined and continue? Should I move on and try some quilted jewellery ideas I had yesterday? (hey, I could make a 5:1 mini quilt pendant!). OK I’ll try a sewing session with the idea (perhaps it is just sewing machine withdrawal). If I’m still unhappy, I’ll abandon ship.

Tonight is my spinning lesson 🙂

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