tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246967536995581602024-03-14T01:41:11.625-07:00Pin Fiddle QuiltsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09282172547204199553noreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24696753699558160.post-25919431091940276482015-03-22T08:57:00.000-07:002015-03-22T08:57:16.063-07:00Modern Irish Bee March Block <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I finally got my Bee blocks completed today.</div>
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Or go to the Modern Irish Bee blog for a link to the You Tube tutorial. An American man sewing as only an American man could sew.</div>
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This block takes about 10 minutes to do, so very fast, but you need to concentrate and be quite methodical.</div>
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Not much else in the way of sewing around here at the mo.</div>
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I'm next in the Bee so I have to get planning and ready to post my block.</div>
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Look at my beautiful whippet.</div>
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He absolutely knows he's a gorgeous boy.</div>
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At the weekend I decided to have a long stare at my bird quilt that has been sitting about feeling unloved in every way possible. </div>
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I considered cutting it up into smaller pieces.</div>
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But when thinking of where to cut I kept finding bits of it that I liked that would be lost in the process.</div>
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It was actually the middle strip that was annoying my aesthetic brain.</div>
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The dullness. The this isn't doing anything bit. And the white circles should be under the water with the fish and not in the trees with the birds.</div>
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So I experimented with discharge paste on a smallish section. Surprisingly it didn't work. It didn't remove any of the colour. Perhaps it has a use by date. I bought it from Art Van Go about three years ago.</div>
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So I used bleach!</div>
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Watered down a bit.</div>
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And that worked, and what a joy it is to paint bleach on a surface and watch the colour change before your eyes.</div>
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It lightened up the whole feeling of the quilt.</div>
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And I coloured in most of the circles with my inktense blocks and added more colour on the left side with the inktense as well.</div>
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And now I like it.</div>
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Here are a few details.</div>
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I have since coloured most of the white circles on the right too.</div>
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I wish I could enter it for the reflections exhibition but it is too big, as there is a size limit of 30 inches.</div>
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Playing around with ideas....</div>
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I'm thinking about trees reflecting on windows.</div>
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These inner blocks are about 2 inches by 4 inches and the grey strips are quarter inch.</div>
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Thought I would play around with a bright fabric for the fun of it.</div>
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It all feels a bit soulless in a way.</div>
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The trees are flat and lifeless.</div>
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No excitement.</div>
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But wait to you see this!!!!!</div>
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This is an image I have on my phone taken straight off google images.</div>
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I think this is amazing. </div>
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A quilt waiting to happen.</div>
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And there is so many similar images mostly of buildings reflected on buildings. Or machinery, cranes reflected on windows. </div>
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I think this is just waiting for me to explore.</div>
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On Saturday Alicia Merrett came to the Patchwork Guild and her work was beautiful.</div>
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I really enjoyed seeing her map pieces.</div>
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She can be Mapwoman.</div>
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I am Windowwoman.</div>
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Last but not least I have to get on with my blocks for The Modern Irish Bee.</div>
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We are doing a star burst block.</div>
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I have had a go, but unfortunately my block didn't work out right.</div>
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I will conquer the block today.</div>
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If you want to see the block and the tutorial scroll down through the blog to the post on March 1st.</div>
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Each of the squares finishes just one inch, so I'm glad it's only two blocks.</div>
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It got me in the mood again.</div>
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And I have an idea already for my month, which is April!</div>
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The Northern Ireland Patchwork Guild have an exhibition in conjunction with The Irish Patchwork Guild in May.</div>
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I have been pinning ideas on Pinterest and Flckr(which I am new to)</div>
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This is a picture I took on my local beach.</div>
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The light is reflecting on the wet sand.</div>
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I quite like the light reflecting on the rippled sand.</div>
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Quilt Finished and hanging on the line.</div>
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Sorry for the rubbish pictures. I have actually worked myself into a bad mood doing this blog because I use my son's apple mac and it was upgraded and I am useless at tech stuff and got lost every which way I turned.</div>
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I feel that the quilt doesn't work particularly well as a whole, but that the different bits of it are lovely.</div>
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Sorry for this awful image but this is the quilt way back in the beginning stages.</div>
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It's me and my bird quilt here.</div>
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Yes we are still plodding along together ,but if there isn't completion soon I think one of us will jump out the window. And although there is snow on the ground I think the landing will be fatal.</div>
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A bed quilt for Beth.</div>
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I have been gone ages and have not been near anyone else's blog for absolutely ages either. No excuse available. Just got out of the swing of it.</div>
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While flaffing about and getting distracted by all sorts this summer I have worked a little tiny bit on my bird quilt.</div>
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I sprayed it with procion dyes in warm colours.</div>
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Just a few details so far. I have machine and hand stitched into it and I am pretty happy with how it's going. It's just going a bit slow, and I am at the stage where I am thinking about what I want to do next.</div>
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Oh, and the Liberty dress that Martha gave me got shortened for summer and I wore it to the Somme this year. I thought it appropriate because of the red poppies in the print.</div>
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This is where it's at at the moment. A few more branches added.</div>
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These last ones are a bit mad, but I quite like the very first one with the white circles.</div>
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On a completely different and more energetic note I completed my first ever half marathon yesterday. </div>
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It was 13.1 miles running through the beautiful Mourne Mountains.</div>
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I got the top of the baby quilt finished yesterday.</div>
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Here it is hanging on the line.</div>
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It measures about 60 inches by 50 inches.</div>
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Now all I have to do is motivate myself to sandwich it and quilt it.</div>
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Oh the weather is too lovely outside. </div>
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There is a female blackbird sun bathing on the lawn and there is a pair of blue tits in and out of a nest box on the shed.</div>
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Other strange things have happened in the shed over the weekend.</div>
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Charlie cut the grass yesterday and simultaneously the hens went AWOL.</div>
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We discovered them in the shed roosting on the front wheel of one of the bikes.</div>
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I had to 'man up' and rescue them.</div>
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I don't usually go more than a step into the shed because we have a spider the size of a mouse in there.</div>
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As well as completing the quilt top, I made a bag for my friend Gillian in work. </div>
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Here's a very quick run down on how it was made....</div>
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4 yummy batiks.</div>
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cut into 2.5 inch strips by the width of the fabric 45 inches, then pieced together.</div>
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2.5 inch strips cut across the fabric and joined to form one long strip.</div>
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then another strip added to the other side.</div>
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This is about 30 by 12.</div>
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place it on some light wadding and quilt.</div>
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I quilted wavy lines in a variegated thread.</div>
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turn right sides together and sew up each side, then box the corners.</div>
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I sewed two inches in from the corner on each side.</div>
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It looked gigantic, too long and skinny,</div>
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compared with my wee bag which is a perfect size for my lunch for work.</div>
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So I cut a few inches off the top.</div>
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Made two handles 20 inches long.</div>
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I pieced together two 2.5 inch strips then tucked a 1.25 inch piece of wadding right up to the seam.</div>
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I got the annual letter from the council to renew my allotment lease for the year.</div>
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1. My dog Sam had to be put to sleep.</div>
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2. I got a promotion in work to Deputy Sister. yikes. The interview was last Monday and I found out on Friday that I had been successful. The two weeks before the interview I literally did nothing except study. So that was some good news. </div>
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3. More good news. My brother in law, James, and his wife Licet, had a baby girl.</div>
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I let them run around the garden and my hub tries to herd them back into their pen. I love to see them investigating all the corners of the garden. Freedom at last or something like that. But they do scratch and dig and root up plants and scatter leaves. But when I am out in the garden they follow me about and I feed them slugs and worms. Is that weird? Or cruel? </div>
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My little ray of sunshine (sometimes) Beth joined all us serious stitchers on Thursday night at the Merville group. So 3 generations there, which was great. And she said she really enjoyed it because all the girls were lovely and there was a warm relaxed atmosphere. Her words.</div>
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Although Jean my oldest hen died during the week.</div>
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OK so I am going skiing tomorrow with my hub and leaving my two beautiful teenagers behind. </div>
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So far only one branch is in along the width of the piece. </div>
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I have made only a tiny little bit of progress with my birds.</div>
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My garden is a quagmire.</div>
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The chickens are going to disappear into this quagmire if the rain doesn't go away.</div>
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Yesterday morning I started the day with a great walk up through the muddy wet lanes and fields beside our house. </div>
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I really like the shape of this bird and I made a stencil this shape which was tucked inside the book.</div>
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So I played about with it for a few hours, along with my new Inktense blocks which I purchased months ago but hadn't got round to using.</div>
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This was all in my sketchbook using the blocks, black paint, white acrylic paint applied with a roller.</div>
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The white cotton was not pristine to begin with, there were marks on it made by being in close proximity to me and my messy sketchbook work. But this is an advantage.</div>
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This is the cut shape of the bird, inktense applied then watered down quite liberally.</div>
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I love the effect this has, and it also creates a resist for other layers applied on top.</div>
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I worked into this piece with further layers of inktense blocks applied like a watercolour wash, and random marks made with the edge of the blocks. The spirals are drawn with a permanent pen. The outline of the bird with a black ink pen.</div>
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Second piece. Cream cotton, the same stencil. The same methods, but also using a spiral stencil, cut from card. The stencils can be used below the fabric too and treated like a rubbing.</div>
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And my number one favourite play essential. Paper doilies.</div>
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Look at the gorgeous marks made by the doily and white paint.</div>
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The image above is the stencil used on a large brown envelope, which was scrunched up, ironed flat, paint rolled onto it and then the image applied. </div>
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I love brown paper. I might try and sew this in some way onto cotton. There is an accidental tare down the middle but it adds to the appeal. Old and worn look.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09282172547204199553noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24696753699558160.post-87431535277269923122014-01-12T06:02:00.000-08:002014-01-12T06:02:47.130-08:00Ginger, Jessie and Ann.<div style="text-align: center;">
Ok, so I'm not very good at blogging on a regular basis. </div>
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But I am going to turn over a new leaf and have a more productive and creative 2014.</div>
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Over the last few days I have spent the odd hour here and there sorting out my scraps</div>
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2.5 inch strips, 2 inch strips, 1.5 inch strips, 2 inch and 2.5 inch squares, and larger pieces, ironed.</div>
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This is actually quite a long process, but very enjoyable and relaxing. Not much thinking.</div>
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I may just continue to do this every now and then over the next few weeks and months until I get to the bottom of the pile.</div>
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I also need to back and quilt Beth's quilt.</div>
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But what I really want to do is start some work based on nature, birds, the seaside.</div>
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Maybe start on some small pieces in print, or paint. I don't really know yet.</div>
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My head is full of images of sea birds, and footprints in the sand, berries on the trees, blackbirds.</div>
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On a totally different note, I got three new hens last week, after losing two in the last few months.</div>
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Lucy died in November and Honey died just after the New Year.</div>
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My new ladies are Ginger, above, Jessie and Ann.</div>
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Ok, so I haven't made a cushion fit for a gallery, but I have made one with some Art Gallery Fabrics. (Carnaby Street by Art Gallery Fabrics) </div>
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So now it's soooooo easy when you know how. The house will be coming down with piped and zipped cushions.</div>
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I got my small quilt finished and delivered to little Evan, a very special patient who has been in the ward I work in for over 9 months.</div>
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The good news is that he is possibly being discharged home this week. This is obviously absolutely fantastic for him and his family, but we will miss him so much from the ward. He is such character, and full of personality with lots of smiles, and frowns, and staring matches, and trying to talk going on all day long. Our wee sweetheart.</div>
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I kept adding a few borders around the original layout which brought it up to quite a decent sized cot quilt.</div>
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It was washed and tumbled before I gave it to Evan's mum Jenny.</div>
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I think she liked it. She's into patchwork, and crafts, and knits a lot. She is responsible for my lovely sheep that I have in the car....</div>
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I have only just recovered this morning I think. Last week was spent organising things and worrying about it, and the weekend was spent tidying and cleaning, and sleeping it off. </div>
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Flipping Heck, I havent been on here for a month. I am not a very good blogger. But then I haven't had anything very interesting to blog about. All work and no play.</div>
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Last week I decided to make a small quilt for a very special small person I know.</div>
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I bought this fabric at the Festival of Quilts and it has been looking at me for months wondering what it will be turned into.</div>
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The fabric is Scamper by Birch fabrics.</div>
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Now over the past few months I have been finishing off Beth's quilt....</div>
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.... and I got pretty fed up making every block exactly the same. ( this quilt still needs quilted and bound but I don't even really like it anymore and keep putting off finishing it) Bad girl!</div>
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So for my small quilt, for the small person, I wanted to work more freely and decided to kind of grow it on the design wall.</div>
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Yesterday I spent a not so relaxing Sunday at a Northern Ireland Patchwork Guild workshop covering the basics of printing, taught by Paula Rafferty.</div>
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This was my table with my papers prepared for transfer printing.</div>
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I used a feather stencil as a rubbing plate and rubbed over it with a back oil pastel. Then the transfer paint was painted over it in some cases, and over the background, leaving the feathers white, in some cases.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So I got out the most gorgeous fabric to make myself the most gorgeous bag. Not all bags are gorgeous. Just like not all babies are gorgeous. Well I am the mummy of a new bag and it's definitely gorgeous.</span></div>
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I need a new lunch bag for work. This one I have been using for about a year...</div>
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I still love you little bag but I have some beautiful fabric needing a bit of love and attention too.</div>
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With one exception (the second one up from the bottom) this is all Carnaby Street, from Art Gallery Fabrics. This fabric feels beautiful... lovely quality.</div>
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I am going to make the bag pretty random, with a scrappy look.</div>
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I need two pieces 16 by 12 inches and a bottom piece 16 by 5.</div>
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So the piecing is all improvisational, cutting and stitching until it grows into the size I need.</div>
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At this stage I intended to box the corners to make it into a more bucket shape, but I thought this is a lovely bag, an everyday bag, too lovely to put my sandwiches in and squeeze into my locker.</div>
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The pointed corners annoyed me a bit so I ended up boxing the corners slightly at this stage.</div>
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Boxing the corners 1.5 inches in from each corner gives it a slightly bucket shape with the base about 4 inches.</div>
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