Busy day sorting through all my crates, well some of my crates prior to our move. i have already sold one of my five kilo satchels of vintage trims and fabrics...yeah! Twenty more to go…give or take a few.
Having a break from my research for a future blog post which has proven both time consuming and informative.
My copy of Kaffe Fassett’s Quilt Romance came from Amazon.com today. Kathy devoted a blog post to the book here. ….her post has photos of the projects too! I adore this book because it is photographed in Portmerion....where my favourite china originated. It is a village in Wales where quaint cottages and buildings are painted in the most glorious colours.
I popped out for a while to get fresh veggies for dinner and on the way popped into Vinnies where I found the cute sewing basket. While it is a tad small for my sewing needs its perfect for my evening beading. It will be perfect for my pliers and findings and wire etc. I also found the as new skirt which was exquisitely hand tailored…you know with the seams sewn with a top stitch not a zig zag. Pity to cut it up…but don’t worry I won’t lose any sleep over it…it will be perfect for my LibertyV Quilt. I need masses of blues for that and also it will be good for the mosaic one below….still looking out for Liberty fabrics for that one!
Okay off to watch television for a while..then more research!
This week’s POTW [photo of the week] on FPAQ on flickr is by rOssie. The way Rossie has photographed this quilt is sublime…the shades of colour in the background…in the branch…echo the subltey of the colours in the quilt.
This quilt really has to be seen large to appreciate the detail. The quilting is exquisite, as is the use of the itajime resists which Rossie sells in her etsy shop. Rossie learned about this process from Malka of a stitch in dye.
Rossie actually has this quilt for sale here in her etsy shop rossie.etsy.com where she explains a little more about the dye process.
She also started the flickr group Fresh Modern Quilts where many hours of inspiration is to be found.
Look ….went shopping in Spotlight on my birthday and bought enough fat quarters for my new half hexi quilt!
Also bought two metres of fabric for border
and a metre of this for the binding. The butterflies are about seven centimetres…three inches at their largest.
I like this colourscheme for spring/summer and love the hint of gold/beige in there too!
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And look what else I got! Yes it co-ordinates!
The NX 200 fully computerised sewing machine… quilter’s edition!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Got over three hundred dollars off too!!!!!!!!!
More of my rescued from landfill fabrics. “Odalys” by Romanex de Boussac of France
with blooms 15 to 20cm each…stunning…I made this bag set below with it.
Though I still have heaps of offcuts if anyone is interested.
Xian chintz….1994 a panel about one metre in length…quite glorious and highly unusual…again thrown out of the charity shop by staff.
This one I found for sale in a pile of what looked like a deceased estate goods at Vinnies. It is a gorgeous curtain panel from the sixties…as new and glorious in colour…..
like a painting. Would look wonderful fussy cut and framed or fabulous in a retro home as an ottoman cover.
I still have over a metre of this fabric left….would be happy to fussy cut it for you or provide a bigger piece if you wanted to make something larger. I am pretty sure it is a form of barkcloth…highly collectable and hideously expensive in vintage fabric shops online.
