Posted by sewjournal on March 31st 2011
When I went to Kiama one of the ladies drove down with me and she very kindly gave me a gift of these yummy Kaffe Fassett fabrics and a pack of Titanium Topstitch needles. Wasn’t that lovely of her? Thank you Heather. While we were down there we visited the local quilt shop in Berry [...]
Posted by sewjournal on March 30th 2011
After performing my civic duty by presenting myself at the Polling Station for the NSW State Election on Saturday morning, I went for a walk. The day had started rainy but by the time I came out of the Polling Station the sun was out and the strong wind was blowing the clouds away. It [...]
Posted by sewjournal on March 29th 2011
You didn’t know I’d been away, did you? That’s thanks to the schedule posting facility of WordPress. I’ve been to Kiama which is on the coast, 1 1/2 hours south of Sydney. The Southern Cross Quilters’ Retreat was on there. I didn’t go. I had been planning to but in the end decided against it. I did, however, rent a house and shared [...]
Posted by sewjournal on March 28th 2011
I’ve been working on my appliqué project and have completed the sun and the grass. I’ve basted the tree ready for needle-turning and so I thought I’d show you where I’m up to. What do you think?
Posted by sewjournal on March 27th 2011
In the Sewjournal Survey tutorials came out on top as the thing most people want to see. So I’ve been putting my thinking hat on to try to work out what tutorials would be most interesting to my readers. It’s quite hard as my readers range all the way from complete newbies through to accomplished quilters, though [...]
Posted by sewjournal on March 26th 2011
Reprinted with permission from the Volckening Collection, all rights reserved Yesterday I gave you a small taste of the wonderful quilts collected by Bill Volckening and displayed on his blog Wonky World. Today I’m going to show you around The Volckening Collection. The collection is divided into four sections: Cottons, Wools and Silks, One Pattern, Many Names and Rescue Quilts. I’ll show [...]
Posted by sewjournal on March 25th 2011
I recently came across a wonderful blog written by Bill Volckening, called Wonky World. Bill studied at Rhode Island School of Design, School of Visual Arts, New York University, and the International Center of Photography has been collecting quilts for over 20 years. I like his philosophy. It’s very similar to ideas I’ve mentioned here on this blog before and that is: [...]
