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Thoughts for groups booking speakers and tutors
Quilt book author and teacher Linda Seward has put two articles she wrote for The Quilter, the Quilters' Guild of the British Isles quarterly members' magazine, on her blog. The first was written...
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On my travels
I'm in England for a few days and managed to fit in a short visit to The Bramble Patch near Northampton. Hilary Beattie and Jennie Rolfe have an exhibition there until April 11th, and the other half...
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World Textile Day is in Frodsham on Saturday
We're in Frodsham, near Chester, on Saturday 11th April, at Frodsham Community Centre, Fluin Lane, WA6 7QN. All the info is on the World Textile Day website.These photos were taken at WTD Wales at...
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World Textile Day North - some photos
Here are some of Bob's photos from World Textile Day North at Frodsham Community Centre on Saturday. We had hundreds of visitors - the photos give a sense of how busy we were! Put next year's date in...
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Summerhouse progress - the last shingle!
Our ceramics tutor Nancy Fuller sent me the photo above a couple of days ago. It is one of my onigawara roof ridge end tiles I made at our evening class. There's some photos of the first stages in...
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The Micra Mystique - a future classic
We got one of these cute little Nissan Micra cars (they were called the Nissan March in Japan) last Autumn, after spotting it for sale second hand at a local garage that we often drive past. The two...
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Summerhouse - window sills and trims
Today has been lots of fiddly finishing off jobs on the window sills and trims, with Glyn doing a lot of whittling and shaping with a craft knife to get the parts to sit tight together. The shingles...
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Car repair and quilt inspiration
We put the replacement door on the Micra last night, removing the one that was very badly dented a couple of weeks ago. I want to make a small quilt (or perhaps a couple of back seat cushions)...
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1718 coverlet book talk at the AGM
I gave my talk on the making of the 1718 coverlet book at the Quilters' Guild AGM and Conference "A Celebration of Quilting" on Friday morning. I was only the second speaker of the day, after Katie...
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Summerhouse barge boards and roof trims
This weekend, we are hoping to get the barge boards designed, cut and added to the summerhouse gables, and get the onigawara roof finials on too. Like this large onigawara ("demon tile") near the...
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Summerhouse - cutting the barge boards
We started on the barge boards by marking the position of the roof joists and rafters on the back of the first board and I sketched the design straight onto the board. It was the easiest way, rather...
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Summerhouse - cutting the barge boards 2
The barge board design still needed some tweaking, as it didn't look detailed enough after the first few cuts. So I added some more tomoe commas to the design and some small circles to fill up some of...
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Summerhouse and web domains
Photos from Sunday evening, when the rain stopped and Glyn managed to get the barge boards onto the back of the summerhouse. He had a little toast to celebrate.No more progress to report at the...
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Return to Quilts UK
We will be back at Quilts UK at Malvern from Thursday to Sunday this week, in my usual spot in the marquee, near the bottom of the ramp. I wasn't there last year because I was invited to the Loch...
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Sashiko in Perth - forthcoming workshops
I have two sashiko workshops coming up at The Peacock and the Tortoise in Perth soon - Sashiko for Summer (above) on Friday 12th June and Introduction to Shonai Sashiko (below) on Saturday 23rd May....
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Quilts UK 2015
We had four days at Quilts UK last weekend. The photo above is from Friday. On Thursday, it rained all day and was really miserable, but after that the weekend improved.The main hall has had quite a...
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A trip to Tewkesbury
The last seven days have been very busy and I haven't had much time to blog, so I am only catching up with photos now. On Monday last week, we went into Tewkesbury on our way home from Malvern. We...
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Sunday birthday
After a busy week, I had a relaxing day at home for my birthday on Sunday. The weather was nice enough for some outdoor quilting, with a jumper on standby when it clouded over. Glyn popped the...
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The first 1718 quilt top from the book?
Lynn Durham might be the first quilter to have finished a top using "The 1718 Coverlet" book's patterns - at least, she's the first person who has posted a photo of a finished top on the 1718...
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