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Sidmouth quilt revisited - (part 3?)
I haven't added much to my version of the Sidmouth quilt for a few weeks, as I've been sewing potholders (more about those in future). I've added the larger hourglass or X block borders and it turned...
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Costume auctions - bottle green 1880 repro dress
I am having another costume clear out. The first one listed on eBay is a shot silk and velveteen promenade dress I made for the Llandrindod Wells Victorian Festival in 1998. Here's the auction link -...
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Festival of Quilts and Lindisfarne graffiti
I'm not trading at Festival of Quilts this year, but Glyn and I will be going on Saturday - partly as a visitor and party as an assistant on Japan Craft's stand. Katie has promised us lots of time off...
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WTD, Great Northern Quilt Show and my house move
World Textile Day in Norfolk will be on Saturday 7th September. Although we had planned to be there, the final stages of my house move have taken life over and there just isn't enough time to deal...
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Moving
From this.... to this...If anyone is waiting for a reply from me or wondering why I haven't been posting much this month, this is the amount of stuff we have moved in the last week. Packing and...
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Great Northern Quilt Show, Harrogate
Although I couldn't attend the Great Northern Quilt Show to teach and demo this year, as the house move spilled over into my show prep time, we managed to get down to Harrogate for the day on...
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I love having to change my phone and broadband accounts!! Since the move from Wales, I thought the easiest thing to do would be to keep my accounts and transfer them to our phone number up here....
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Perthshire Open Studios
There are only a few days left to go on the Perthshire Open Studios trail. We visited a few studios last weekend and hope to see a few more on Sunday. There are so many, it is difficult to choose!...
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Loch Lomond sashiko course, session 1
We had the first session of our eight part Yuza and Shonai sashiko course at The Studio, Loch Lomond, on Thursday. It has been great to have the opportunity to run a longer sashiko course, as the...
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Scottish Quilt Championships next weekend
I will be at the Scottish Quilt Championships at Edinburgh from Friday to Sunday, demonstrating and teaching. It is the first time I've been to this show, although I've been coming to the spring quilt...
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Scottish Quilt Championships
My quilt 'Maru' (Circle) was awarded a Judges' Merit, so it must have scored better than I expected it would. I think it works better with the gold cord circle, in the photo above. Originally, it...
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Building the summerhouse, Part 1
The concrete for our summerhouse base was delivered yesterday. I need some extra workspace, so we are building it from scratch, using some recycled materials (including the doors, windows and cedar...
View ArticleQuilt Week Yokohama
After a month with no broadband at home, I'm hoping it will be working when I get back! I will be in Japan for a couple of weeks, visiting friends and Quilt Week Yokohama, where I will be with Yuza...
View ArticleLast day in Japan.
Just starting my last day in Japan. I have had a wonderful trip. There are too many photos to spend time uploading now, so I'll do them when I get home. I couldn't log into my Google account from...
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First photos from Japan - Quilt Week Yokohama
Quilt Week Yokohama was just a day and a half for me, as I headed up to Yamagata city on the Friday, to visit friends there. I managed to pack in a LOT! Yuza Sashiko Guild had a large exhibition and...
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Back in Yamagata city
After Yokohama, I went up to Yamagata city by shinkansen (bullet train). The Tsubasa ('wing') shinkansen has made the trip to Yamagata city from Tokyo very easy since 1992. When I first went to...
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Happy New Year!
The end of 2013 ended up busier than I thought, so I haven't had a lot of time to post on my blog. There are still a lot of photos to be added from my trip to Japan in November and more photos from...
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Recent workshops
I'm very busy with a book project at the moment, but here are a few photos from recent workshops. First, we had a 2 day workshop weekend at The Studio, Loch Lomond - Japanese Art Quilt Boromono...
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Yuza-machi visit, November 2013 - Part 1
A few things had changed on my visit to Yuza in November, although the view of Reiko's road is more or less the same (November 2013 above, July 2006 below).The biggest surprise was that my old house...
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Yuza-machi visit part 2 - Yuza Sashiko Guild meeting
Friday morning is when Yuza Sashiko Guild have their meeting at the town's community centre. I took these photos on my trip in November. Most of the group had been down to Yokohama for the quilt show...
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