I had my market stall today. My brain is too full to make a decision about whether it was a worthwhile endeavour or not. More on that in another post.
I’ve discovered equilter.com! I’ve put three yards of fabric.
I shall use the brown dotty fabric and the pink hearts in my business (www.excessivelydiverted.com) but the green floral will be used in quilting. Even taking postage into account it is till cheaper to buy my fabric form equilter.com than from my local store.
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I’ve been doing dull things – like printing PR stuff for my stall. Also my real life is  interfering with my crafty endeavours. My children have had lots of different activities that I need to get them to – swimming lessons etc. Plus in my opinion it’s all about the photos and I haven’t got myself organised enough to take photos while the light is good.
 However, I have bought more fabric because, of course, you can never have enough!
I plan to use one of these fabrics in a new quilt – a waterwheel design (I really liked the one Amy posted about at Angry Chicken ).
I was thinking something like this …
There will also be at least one border, but I’m still thinking about that. I want something more complicated than my normal one piece fabric borders, but I haven’t decided exactly what yet.
What do you think of the block and quilt image. I used my new PCQuilt software package to create them. So far I’ve been really pleased with it. I love that I can scan my fabric and use it in my blocks and I love being able to see a quilt of the blocks. I had a bit of trouble at first with scanning my fabric, but that turned out to be user error (of course) and their support was great.
You must all be wondering if I ever finish anything and I’m wondering that too! I’ve got three quilt projects on the go – Snail’s Trail, Log Cabin and now this Waterwheel. I find those initial stages so exciting! Planning the project, finding the perfect fabric etc unfortunately commitment to a project is not my forte.
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I’ve been busy getting ready for my Market stall on the 29th. I’m very nervous because I’m not very confident about being in such a public arena – selling on the web is much different.
I’ve finished sewing and now I’m working on a brochure/order form and a glossy postcard.
I’m quite pleased with how this turned out – it looks much better in the flesh so to speak. I’m amazed at how long it takes to do anything. Taking the photos, editing the photos, taking the photos again, battling with different software packages, etc. I’m currently fighting with my printer – the black ink went a bit dodgy and I had to clean the heads twice before it looked decent.
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Happy Easter everyone!
I’ve been busy making stock for my market stall. The sewing is almost finished, but I haven’t even started on the admin stuff.
I’ve bought PC Quilt software. I’m hoping to use it to help with my quilt design. I can do individual blocks, but I wanted something to show me different layouts. Plus I thought it would be useful with my documentation – because I do plan to write tutorials for the quilts I make.
I haven’t had much time to play – but I’ve discovered I can scan in my fabric, rotate quilt blocks and print foundation blocks. I will post more when I’ve had more time to play.
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I’ve been thinking about quilting my log cabin quilt a block at a time. Rather than quilting it all at once at the end. The ‘Quilt as You Go’ technique. Quilters Cache have a great explanation with pictures. I’m thinking about quilting as I go because I struggle trying to manouver a full size quilt on my Janome 9000 sewing machine. This way, I think, I’ll be able to have more intricate quilting on each block. Usually I do straight lines that turn out wobbly. However, I’m a bit worried about all of the hand-sewing involved – that is, butting the batting and then whip stitching it together, and then sewing the backing pieces together. I think this will be quite time consuming and I’m wondering if the back will be a bit bitty. I am keen to try this technique at least once and I can see it would be possible to make the back decorative or even more impressive to make a reversible quilt. I’ve been reading the April issue of American Patchwork and Quilting and they have an article on quilt backs (pages 18 to 20). I love this magazine, but I can’t seem to subscribe to it in Australia, so I just check Newsagents and hope for the best.
I feel motivated to make my quilt back something more than a piece of calico.
Today I’ve been working on a T-Shirt commission.
The name will appear in the middle of three bands – like this one
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As it was a busy day today, not much work happened. I worked on my third version of the log cabin block.
I’ve swapped the red fabric and the green floral. At this stage this is the one I’m going to use.
I also started a little hand bag for my eldest daughter. I made one for my youngest daughter out of embroidery trials and of course what you do for one you have to do for the other one. She chose a water melon design from Bunnycup Embroidery . I’d post a picture, but the one on the website is much nicer than mine. For starters, I didn’t do it as an applique just embroidery on calico and it looks a bit bland. Now I just need to make it into a little bag.
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