Cards

Made with love by me for special people

Love this quote from the book "When God was a Rabbit" by Sarah Winman.
She'd made the card herself, something she always did because she was keen on crafts, and whenever she came to school with glue or glitter in her hair everyone knew she'd been making something - birthday cards or Christmas cards - and everyone secretly hoped to be the lucky recipient of those laughed-at creative efforts because they were good and they spoke loud, for they said "You are special. I have chosen you."

Sari ribbon slow cloth

At last my hand stitched sari ribbon piece is complete

See how it started here. Got a bit stuck with it 1/2 way through so took a photo of it, and printed it out in black and white. Then doodled on it one night with a pen repeating ideas of stitching and that became my pattern. (if you click on the pic below you can properly see the pen ideas drawn on the photocopy)

Will use this idea again if I become stuck.

Tote and Gloat

On Saturday our local Quilt Club (Rose City Quilters) had its annual show and tell event. There is a big morning session of showing quilts which are then displayed, and we have a guest speaker, shops and guest exhibitors.

This year my friend Katherine and I were asked to exhibit some of our mixed media fibre art. This is what our display looked like.

There's always plenty of inspiration to be had at these shows. There's  a quilt challenge set for club members....remember this piece of floral fabric when I showed you round my studio?

Unfortunately it hung on my design wall for inspiration but never got made into anything...others made lovely quilts with it. These are my 4 fav ones.

by Anne Adams

by Sonja Revell

by Dianne Southey

by Caroline Noaro

So talented - you won't be surprised to learn that all of the above won prizes.
And of course I had to make a few wee purchases.
I'm looking for a new hand stitching project and am thinking these will be lovely together

I'm also keen on doing something Indian-inspired in the future, so these threads will be perfect.

Next time I'll show you my woven sari ribbon piece finally finished.