At last this is getting back to being a craft blog…or this is the crafty side of it. As you may know I get a bit bored with purely one dimensional blogs. Luckily this week I was not only able to find my sewing machine under piles of fabric and clothing repairs but I also found the Designer’s Guild fabric for Ollie the little boy who lives opposite…..it had been stored by ’someone’ behind the Xmas trees when they were put away. When I was looking for our duvet/doona and our heater to ease the colder nights I found a large laundry basket full of fabrics I was obviously going to work on after Christmas!!!
So I am asking your patience today as there have been a few unforeseen problems caused by my uploading so many photos…remember when I taught myself to upload them? Well apparently I have not been resizing them so the ten that I uploaded to flickr this evening took up a gigantic 10 megabytes my son said. Yowser!!! So if you don’t mind just for today click on Wild Blue Yonder and you will see what I have been up to lately! This is going to be a series of quilts of throw size with a very pale to soft inner centre of at least a square metre going gradually darker to the last few rows of blocks which will be really dark with the odd splashes of lilac to purple in one and pink to red in the other. Each block is 15cm in size so it will end up having 100 blocks….for some reason 100 blocks appeals to me.
I had no sooner put them up to our group on flickr when I started getting comments and questions…must remember to do that after I have cooked dinner…not during! Speaking of flickr I have found the most amazing talent, both globally and locally and I am hoping to start bringing you design reports or updates on what these wonderful artists designers are doing and more importantly, where to find their work. Not only are they incredibly talented with an astounding amount of work behind them but I have also found some new designers, so look out for them……get in now while they are not as well known and save yourselves a lot of money while getting a piece of a new designer’s history. It is very exciting and it is a privilege for me to be sharing resources and knowledge with these very talented designers and artisans.
I have almost finished Blushing Mokum, the luscious table runner come bed runner come wall hanging which is made from purely recycled reclaimed fabric offcuts from a really great textile company here in Sydney, Mokum Textiles. They distribute Osbourne and Little, GP and J Baker, Liberty Furnishings, Nina Campbell and all the really good quality textile houses worldwide. This reduced my pile of boxes of fabric by one in our bedroom and finishing the WBY will also help reduce the amount of boxes that are messing up our room. Also putting the finishing touches to Wan and Pale…the most subtle quilt I have ever made…shades of grey through to black, interspersed with the softest shade of pink. All that and cranes and dragonflies too! It is backed with lovely pure cotton in soft grey with pink on white, originally a pair of Laura Ashley reclaimed curtains…how lucky was I to find that in our garage/ storage area, never mind the original charity shop?
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