Posted by sewjournal on February 28th 2011
It seems I may be allergic to unwashed fabric {sigh}. You know what that means. This is loads three and four. How many more to go? Well your guess is as good as mine. On the up side I have only been collecting for 2 years but that’s still a lot of fabric! Wish me luck!
Posted by sewjournal on February 27th 2011
Wonky stars! Who would have thought they were so hard? I kept getting them the wrong way round and with no points and etc., etc., etc. My first attempt ended with a mutant wonky star which you can see below. My second attempt was more presentable but I felt bad about all those failed attempts and wasted pieces of fabric. So I pieced all [...]
Posted by sewjournal on February 26th 2011
The block I made for my swap partner, Linda, in the Block Swap Adventure has finally (after 3 weeks!) arrived at her house so I can show you how it turned out. Here it is. It was hand-pieced and I made it using freezer paper templates.
Posted by sewjournal on February 25th 2011
Mr Tiggy decided it was high time he penned his own blog post and tried to mucscle in on the keyboard as you can see. Unfortunately his spelling left a lot to be desired and so he was banished pretty swiftly. In the meantime his outdoor “brother” Mr Roscoe was pretending to be a sleeping tiger blending [...]
Posted by sewjournal on February 24th 2011
The other day I received this pack of fabrics to make a wonky star block for Jessica. Such interesting fabrics. I’m having a hard time deciding how to use them. This will be the first time I’ve made a wonky star block I’d better go and look out my Gwen Marston Liberated Quiltmaking II book and get cracking!
Posted by sewjournal on February 23rd 2011
I usually try to keep to quilting and handwork related subjects on my blog but I think the importance of this video cannot be understated. If you live in Australia I would urge you to write to the Minister for Health, The Honourable Nicola Roxon MP at nicola@nicolaroxonmp.com and ask her to ask her department to investigate bringing [...]
Posted by sewjournal on February 22nd 2011
It’s been a bit like that with my husband and me at the moment. He’s been working most weekends and late nights to help process all of the thousands of claims for assistance from the Queensland and Victoria flood, Queen;and and Northern Territory cyclone and Western Australian bushfire victims. So Sunday was a rare day we had together. We headed into the city with a bit of [...]
