tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63579969016478485382024-03-14T14:06:16.404+11:00QUILT WITHOUT GUILTQuilting and other things that catch my interest.Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13038520603667560328noreply@blogger.comBlogger151125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357996901647848538.post-70883631789419334052015-04-01T12:07:00.001+11:002015-04-01T12:07:18.854+11:00In the GardenYesterday was the reveal day for our latest challenge, the theme was 'In the Garden'<br />
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When I placed my folded flowers onto the background it brought to mind
my grandfather's garden, it always contained rows of colourful flowers
around the fence line - roses, sun flowers, tiger lillies, anything tall
and colourful with rows of pansies, petunias, snap dragons etc in
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The fabric for the flowers is glued together using vliesofix, cut into
circles and then stitched and folded to make each petal. I used my
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Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13038520603667560328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357996901647848538.post-29476064072146307562015-01-31T18:47:00.001+11:002015-01-31T18:47:09.194+11:00Okay, I'm still here and I'm backI'm back, I needed a break to get my bearings after a hectic18 months or so. I've still been quilting, knitting and enjoying the garden. <br />
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In our challenge group <a href="http://aroundtheworldin20quilts.blogspot.com.au/">Art Quilts Around the World</a> the latest theme was 'Structure' and I knew immediately what I wanted to do.<br />
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had a book by J. T. Unruh, Impossible Objects and I thought one of the
illusions would make a good quilt. I photocopied a couple of pages and
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Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13038520603667560328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357996901647848538.post-74758617349645702112013-08-01T20:06:00.003+10:002013-08-01T20:06:42.632+10:00Long/Short, Fat/Thin - Latest Challenge QuiltToday was reveal day for our art quilt challenge group <a href="http://aroundtheworldin20quilts.blogspot.com.au/">Art Quilts Around the World</a>. The theme for this challenge was Opposites Attract.<br />
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After a couple of flase starts I decided to use complimentary colours, opposites on the colour wheel. I have been in an orange mood lately so the first colour I selected was orange and I found a lovely bright blue to use.<br />
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Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13038520603667560328noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357996901647848538.post-163824642613422872013-06-01T15:47:00.006+10:002013-06-01T15:47:56.370+10:00Out of Asia ChallengeThis weekend is the publication of our latest challenge quilts with the group <a href="http://aroundtheworldin20quilts.blogspot.com.au/">Art Quilts Around the World</a>. <br />
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The Khanda is the Sikh emblem, it consists of three objects: <br />
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SPORT - Motorcycle Racing<br />
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Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13038520603667560328noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357996901647848538.post-74941134106597559462013-04-13T13:55:00.000+10:002013-04-13T13:55:52.628+10:00Scatterdays - Letter A<div style="text-align: left;">
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Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13038520603667560328noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357996901647848538.post-19713482078752144042013-04-13T13:38:00.000+10:002013-04-13T13:38:21.550+10:00Carnival - A challenge Recently our group <a href="http://aroundtheworldin20quilts.blogspot.com.au/">Art Quilts Around the World</a> published our latest challenge. The theme this time was Carnival. <br />
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Something Humorous, Feet, Furniture and A Quilty Dispaly.<br />
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My son-in-law Dean dressed as 'Paulie' from the movie Juno. Daughter was 8 months pregnant at the time and went as Juno. I'm not allowed to show her photo here and had to hide Dean's face.<br />
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Duck feet can be used for many different things - walking, swimming and eating!<br />
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Drawers from my lovely Singer Treadle Machine. This is one of the first gifts my husband gave me after we were married.<br />
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Below are some of my larger quilts. If you can't guess I really love scrappy quilts.<br />
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For more Scatterday fun have a look at <a href="http://www.lgfns.blogspot.com.au/">Cinzia's Blog</a> for other participants.</div>
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Money,Lots of People make their <b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Income</span></b> from the stock market.<br />
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The <b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Iron</span></b> Maiden, a sculpture made daughter number 2 from of recycled iron.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">MAMMALS: </span></b>Rabbit - I just had to use my daughter's life long friend Peter. He has lived with Daughter 1 since she was 2 days old. He is a little battered but much loved.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">TECHNOLOGY:</span></b> Remote Control -Where would my husband (and most other men) be without their Remotes, whatever did they do before they were invented??<br />
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<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">WIP</span></b>: If you believe it I have a quilt on the frame under all this fabric, I am in the middle of sorting some of my fabrics. A lot of things were just dumped in here over the Christmas holidays when we had visitors. This might motivate me to get it finished.<br />
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This little quilt was made at the request of 2nd daughter, a good friend to all my daughters and his wife just had their first baby, on November 27th.<br />
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I was pleased to be able to make a quilt for them from fabrics that were waiting in the stash for someone to have a baby girl.<br />
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The quilt measures 36 x 45 inches.Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13038520603667560328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357996901647848538.post-17384649814690663912012-11-25T17:08:00.000+11:002012-11-25T17:08:09.443+11:00ATC Swap Recently I was in an ATC swap and the theme was "Circles" These are the ATCs I received:<br />
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Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13038520603667560328noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357996901647848538.post-40551552452437967882012-11-23T06:03:00.000+11:002012-11-23T06:03:00.635+11:00I am still here..........I know it's been awhile since I last posted, no excuse - just laziness or maybe a very busy year. Daughter getting married, a new baby in the family, our first grandchild, a beautiful baby boy who is now 10 weeks old. <br />
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To ease myself back into blogging I took some photos around the garden yesterday.<br />
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I do have some new quilt pictures but not on this computer, lots of stitching and knitting going on this year. I will add them shortly.Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13038520603667560328noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357996901647848538.post-41794680814198186452011-08-16T13:50:00.000+10:002011-08-16T13:50:45.689+10:00Another Challenge QuiltRunning late as usual, just completed the 'Out of Africa' challenge for <a href="http://challengingourselvesfabricarts.blogspot.com/">Challenging Ourselves</a><br />
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The quilt measures approx 14.5 x 14.5 inches (37 cm square). <br />
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Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13038520603667560328noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6357996901647848538.post-52072738945282076832011-06-10T20:49:00.001+10:002011-06-10T20:50:54.897+10:00Time Flies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I have been keeping myself busy and doing lots of quilt top making. I now have lots of tops to be quilted. Here are some pictures of what I've been up to.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Self Portrait - I think I overdid the the lips</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jWuK-P8xXy8/TfHvIH6fQMI/AAAAAAAAA_0/e-1-VIz7ytQ/s1600/self+portrait+final.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jWuK-P8xXy8/TfHvIH6fQMI/AAAAAAAAA_0/e-1-VIz7ytQ/s320/self+portrait+final.jpg" width="221" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This was a tricky one, we had to name a colour we seldom use and then make a quilt using that colour -</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gKTaEJLLSvU/TfHvYyedxAI/AAAAAAAAA_4/V3SYOuIN6mM/s1600/pink+challenge+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="316" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gKTaEJLLSvU/TfHvYyedxAI/AAAAAAAAA_4/V3SYOuIN6mM/s320/pink+challenge+2.jpg" width="320" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Christmas Gifts - Emma's Trees. Made in memory of a friend's daughter who sadly passed away leaving a very young family.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1zb9RGLhj1w/TfHu9XnFilI/AAAAAAAAA_w/mt0g-dMm04I/s1600/Emma%2527s+trees+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1zb9RGLhj1w/TfHu9XnFilI/AAAAAAAAA_w/mt0g-dMm04I/s320/Emma%2527s+trees+1.jpg" width="259" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Baby Quilts made as gifts, Peter Rabbit was a panel that I free motion quilted.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1z84rISKuv8/TfHvmpAD1aI/AAAAAAAAA_8/UvwhLckqqWU/s1600/Peter+Rabbit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="195" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1z84rISKuv8/TfHvmpAD1aI/AAAAAAAAA_8/UvwhLckqqWU/s320/Peter+Rabbit.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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September 15th was the reveal date for the <a href="http://challengingourselvesfabricarts.blogspot.com/">Challenging Ourselves</a> Four Elements Challenge, Earth, Air, Fire and Water.I had lots of ideas but none that included all for of the elements. In the end I made four separate postcards, they were going to be stand alone pieces but I felt they looked better as one piece.<br />
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The completed quilts that I've seen so far are fabulous, click <a href="http://aroundtheworldin20quilts.blogspot.com/">Art Quilts Around the World</a> to see them.<br />
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