Sewjournal

I’ve told you of a few fund raising efforts recently that are all for good causes and all somehow related to sewing. The first one was the Action Kivu Sewing Workshop Fundraiser which was held by Alissa over at Handmade by Alissa and then there was IBOL which was run by Art La Flamme. There is another sewing related charity [...]

This coming weekend is a long weekend in Australia. I’m hoping to visit the Sydney chapter of the Southern Cross Quilters at their get together on Saturday and then on Sunday I have friend arriving from the US. My friend is a keen gardener and another quilting friend alerted me to the Leura Garden Festival in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. There are ten gardens [...]

First of all let me thank all of you who either commented with helpful suggestions or sent me emails. They were all very helpful and actually more or less in agreement. I had a play with pattern last night and you can see that the extension of lines works very nicley. The only thing I realised once I had [...]

Did I tell you I had started quilting the “Which way?” quilt? Well I started a week or so ago and then had to put the machine away. I managed to ditch stitch the block seams and then I did some of the decorative stuff. I’m going to try to finish it this week as I have friend coming from the US [...]

Well stranger things have happened I suppose but not much. I actually won something! I joined Catherine’s Place Pinmoor co-op and ordered 200 Pinmoors and 200 long pins. Then I went to add my invoice number to Catherine’s Blog to enter for the Friday Freebie and I won! Want to see my prize? Here is is: Thanks Catherine! [...]

Remember the Arabesque? Well, I just knew I wasn’t going to leave it the way it was. Not after I spent so much time on it. I just couldn’t face unpicking it straight away though so I let it lie awhile. Anyway, on Thursday I took it to sit and sew and sat and un-sewed. It took [...]

The postie came yesterday and today bringing goodies I had ordered. The first was some of the white fabric that Hitomi Kimura uses for her base fabric for screen printing. I ordered this so that I could add white to my quilt that uses her fabrics. She also added a little bit of her screen [...]