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I finished in time …. I’ve also been putting little presents in the pockets as well – hair clips, stickers, lolly snakes … I’m also making some christmas T-Shirts. I didn’t stabilise this enough – see all of the puckers? And it took two hours to stitch out – with all of the thread changes [...]

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Advent Calendar – 4

The binding is done … This is the first time ever that the binding went on easily. I followed the instructions for a continuous binding from here.

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Sewing Squares Together

I’ve started sewing the squares together for my Mod 9 quilt. and I’m not sure if I’m sewing it together in the most efficient manner, but this way I can keep on top of which square belongs where.

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More Sock Knitting

I tried to knit these socks, but decided that as a lace pattern is completely lost on self patterning yarn, it wasn’t worth all of the effort (and stress). I then thought I would knit a plain sock using the same yarn, but could not get things to go right – I started about six times. [...]

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Mod 9 Quilt Started

I’ve started cutting out the fabric …

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Modular 9 Quilt

This is the current plan for my next quilt… Each of the squares is 3 inches. The quilt is four identical blocks (see below). Each block is rotated 90 degrees from the previous block. I spent a bit of time today scanning the fabric and using PC Quilt to see how it would all come [...]

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More Suduko

I’ve cut the binding, the hanging sleeve and designed the label. The black rectangles in the above image are where I removed my name. I use a mixture of software to create my labels – Scansoft PC (Easy Layout) – this is janome software and very old and out of date - to create the words [...]

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Suduko Again

I’ve been thinking about this quilt again – I still need to bind it. I have decided to use all of the fabric in the blocks to make the binding. I plan to do a continuous binding and I found a fabulous tutorial here. It also needs a hanging sleeve and a label.

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The Tension

A bit more free motion practice. I decided to try the fill stitching before stitching the outline. As the bobbin thread ran out, I needed to fill a new one. I bought more of what I thought was the same type, but the new bobbin created all sorts of tension problems – see below See [...]

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I worked on my flower… I have found the sewing machine speed that works for me and I am pleased with the results – it’s not perfect, but if I wanted perfect I would digitise a flower and use my embroidery machine. As you can see in the below image, I’m still going outside the outline [...]

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