And yes, more Dresden Plates! These are the last of the ones I’ve made up for now… not quite finished. 5 plates made, 2 appliqued down, 3 to go… and then need to add circles. Will have yellow centre when finished… This will have white with pink… Will use the purple spot… Pink/raspberry spot… The [...]
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Well The Parsonage Dresden Plate Exchange is off and running… with 6 of the 9 girls meeting at the annual Quilts in the Barn on Saturday. I showed you my sample blocks last post and you can see Jayne’s blocks here, so I’ve posted another couple of the girls blocks. First off is Catherine’s yummy [...]
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Once again, I’m making Dresden Plates … this time, for the first time, curved edges, only 2 colours, using clear, bright colours, spots, stripes, geometric patterns etc… Every year for the last 3 years a group of friends have had a weekend away at The Parsonage in Maldon and every year we’ve organised an exchange. [...]
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It always astounds me how generous designers are out there… and here are some more wonderful things available out there in the blogosphere: Dorothy Baker’s Sweet Nostalgia – this 12 month stitchery project based on vintage children’s illustrations has just started, I’ve downloaded Month One – because we don’t yet have Cosmo threads in Australia, [...]
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This past weekend has been full of festivities to celebrate Flossie’s 70th birthday, starting off with a day at the Glenharrow Spring Stitch-in on Friday, with a lovely day had by all, that miracle of miracle’s actually included me doing some stitching instead of gum flapping for a change. Two lovely little kits from Rosalie [...]
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Well, we’re just stopping to have lunch and an update of our progress below. We’re a bit behind, because we’re working on two quilts at once, but going ok so far! Mum’s quilt. Mine!
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Well, my week has been sorta cruddy in regard to stitching, late work nights again! And just tired and out of sorts, has seen me do very little work, apart from continuing to work on the 1930s Dresden plates… So, another one of Flossie’s quilts… Magpies in the Air… Seems appropriate to show this quilt, [...]
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