Posted by: Magik Quilter | April 29, 2008

Wild Blue Yonder

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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You know, after a month of blogging I had a blog crises. I tend to visit the blogs of foodies. Their lovely pages are full of just recipes and the occasional captions of other things. Most like to write “anonymously”. I sort of paniced, I mean… my face (and other parts) are on my blog how many times?! And what exactly IS my blog about? Thankfully after 4 months I seemed to have gotten into the groove of writing and figuring out what should be blogworthy. Above all else I feared someone would come across my blog and think it was just a bloggy excuse for some sort of journal or something. I’d like to think that it isn’t and that it’s achieved balance. Although I wish I wasn’t so lazy and could get the craft part going more. I just haven’t been feeling the sewing bug.

It’s been fun watching your blog evolve as well. Since am vain I’m going to take full credit and say my mellpell blog was the inspiration :p. (I joke!)

Oh! and resizing pictures used to be the bane of my existence. But then a friend told me about a little program Microsoft had on their website that you could just download. Then this little resizer thingy would just appear when I side clicked to resize them. No word necessary using other programs and stuff! And it works for me since I just keep the small version, toss the huge one and then just go on with my life. I’m definitely not one to go about messing with them further. That’s just not my thing.

Love that wild blue yonder quilt. 100 squares…that’s a bunch! I’m not sure if I would have the patience for that. Lookin good!

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