A personal archive · 2005 — 2014

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Journal · page 18

More notes, discoveries and moments from the journal.

12 entries

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…

News Flash

Riscy and I will be moving to Nhulunbuy in the Northern Territory in 6 weeks time. Nhulunbuy is a town located on the Gove Peninsula where the main industry is bauxite mining and…

Cow

I drew this cow in my journal yesterday. The page was already painted the pinky colour with the blue and white smudges. after I finished the drawing I decided to add a the green…

Sponteneous Jewels

I dragged out my little stash of buttons this morning. I put my hand into the lucky dip that is the button bag and came out with this beautiful morsel of plastic. And without…

On a Jet Plane x 6

Tommorow, Riscy and I are flying to the Northen Territory. Three flights up and then three flights back on Tuesday. We are going here. I’ve been trying to get some suitable…

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…

Plugged

 The above image is taken from one of my little journals.. .the drawing is of the elecrical plug for my iron. Have you noticed that these yellowy greens are a current obsession…

Hats

I have been making stuff. Just not blogging about it. I think this could be because Riscy and I have some stuff going on and I really want to share it with you, but I can’t.…

Spring Cleaning

We spent this weekend cleaning. The house is fresh and sparkly from front to back … and I have new cushions in the lounge room. So it really does feel like we are emerging from…

Grey Stripe

Remember the little grey painting I showed a few weeks ago? It is now a grey and yellow painting and is one of three. I’m definitely going to hang them somewhere. It has been a…

Felt Mania

I’m right into felt this week 🙂 Last night I made this hat… which was an utter disaster (think scull cap) until I started playing with the creases. Now don’t go thinking that I’m…