tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88198223829007697422024-02-08T09:06:06.445+10:00Sunshine? Paradise?Marghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09659940271976716013noreply@blogger.comBlogger519125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819822382900769742.post-10779466430007668522015-08-07T10:22:00.000+10:002015-08-07T10:22:46.068+10:00Equator and Maldives<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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After the crappy weather, lots of sunshine and warmth. </div>
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Returned to the Maldives, a lot has changed since I was last there in 1987. The water is still beautiful though.<br />
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Marghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09659940271976716013noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819822382900769742.post-66529726689284093932015-08-06T13:41:00.001+10:002015-08-06T13:41:42.641+10:00Cruising<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I didn't advertise it, but we were on a cruise at the beginning of the year, that's if you hadn't guessed already. I have decided to try and catch up on posts, primarily for my benefit as I'm terrible at keeping a diary, not much better at blogging either. So if you're interested, there will be a couple more posts until I catch up and start showing you what quilty stuff I've been working on this year. I had started working on this post while we were still on the ship but I couldn't access the draft so "cracked the shits" and gave up on trying to write any more.<br />
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So here's this one written six months ago.<br />
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It's been great even though the weather was decidedly dodgy last week. So bad that apparently a number of our fellow cruisers packed their bags and left when we finally made land on the weekend.<br />
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Before the bad weather, beautiful sunshine, calm seas and evenings outdoors enjoying the balmy weather.</div>
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In the picture above, we had to sail between tropical cyclone Chedza on the left, just over Madagascar and tropical cyclone Bansi on the right just west of Reunion and Mauritius. The picture below shows how high the waves were. Where we were the waves were at 12 feet high. Not too high you would think, but gee it was really rough. Lots of people got sea sick. We didn't but we spent most of three days sipping on ginger ale, which seemed to help considerably. The seas were that bad that we couldn't dock in Madagascar which was a bummer as I was so looking forward to seeing it. We also couldn't go to Reunion as they closed the port because the sea was too rough.</div>
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Marghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09659940271976716013noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819822382900769742.post-24913537820688712992015-01-21T01:16:00.001+10:002015-01-21T03:59:13.197+10:00Maputo, Mozambique<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">We heard A LOT of negative information about Maputo before we arrived. We were in two minds as to whether to go and take a look around, but after hearing so many negative comments and only one slightly positive, we decided to stay close to port. </span></div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDqSwxbZUQupRfPlWl3uycVtE_lxbv2ezlzLnKl480MBuxLsOy6_F8LHwLlmFwPuTYYate11JglOt9h7RxMfitSmD6nR14npUUk60e0VnZtib9F0XP6Dm5THJBtKKsATnLT9bdOD-jxqE/s640/blogger-image-406106999.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDqSwxbZUQupRfPlWl3uycVtE_lxbv2ezlzLnKl480MBuxLsOy6_F8LHwLlmFwPuTYYate11JglOt9h7RxMfitSmD6nR14npUUk60e0VnZtib9F0XP6Dm5THJBtKKsATnLT9bdOD-jxqE/s640/blogger-image-406106999.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Maputo</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit0pVcFxNabzaUEqld40F-tgGWPv3Wnq1QfbTwoL9Xn2SfJN99jpVRsNu478mV8MYaw4TwiNYOzcoKJXHcCx448qMrnPBUSMJg7dS9xIZFMPoa1Q3AeMBEKflPnvWWLIeiMB_h0lGRAKA/s640/blogger-image--270194264.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Their nests are made by weaving grass blades. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGKnjyOA6eG7p0zLwn2fKKpSZBqfuaQTJhOHKpDunX1s_JaOSP_uNWZx9C0dG7CHz15_jzjXZhupdXwCISY18-VusXmckPl6VrTjyiOs_OA3rDAg5K1IHm6ICOkVdHRNRTS_OuW8vPLu4/s640/blogger-image-1368361730.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGKnjyOA6eG7p0zLwn2fKKpSZBqfuaQTJhOHKpDunX1s_JaOSP_uNWZx9C0dG7CHz15_jzjXZhupdXwCISY18-VusXmckPl6VrTjyiOs_OA3rDAg5K1IHm6ICOkVdHRNRTS_OuW8vPLu4/s640/blogger-image-1368361730.jpg"></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO7TP4c80JiIjpcBDUbzcdroMBO2vG1KeItYZgY7yWCTJoakv9iArjJ-HmX-Zc48RXJyETBLuouj1nkd74skLFxIi-YGVLGDvBZsP6p_rcwlhVb-Qb2kg4E18XyOD4azaPjQp7bZJdyfs/s640/blogger-image--1422767127.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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We didn't get to see much of Durban. This is pretty much a whirlwind tour, sooooo much to see and so little time. I succumbed to a quintessential touristy tour to the Valley of 1000 Hills which included A Zulu cultural experience. 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It's approximately 45 mins from East London on the east coast of South Africa. It's a private game reserve and has been developed by purchasing farm land and returning it back to native vegetation. <div>As we were there mid morning, we didn't have high expectations of seeing a lot of wildlife, but we were lucky enough to see everything but cheetahs and crested cranes. We were driven around in jeeps. It was a lot of fun and we had a really great guide. If you ever visit South Africa and are in this area, I highly recommend visiting this game reserve.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFlk6io1LCBa4ooCnLkTJI7vQ9sC9GFmMsC2o1-tU_lNPvfGXuhtJ87iby9aO0J7Gofpn6VDZc3nTQkKR4lWc5jMBuyn5567gbpkBRVEOG9jaa05XUDWz2UxbNkGZaTXJbnIx0mZbXYwc/s640/blogger-image--246450997.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFlk6io1LCBa4ooCnLkTJI7vQ9sC9GFmMsC2o1-tU_lNPvfGXuhtJ87iby9aO0J7Gofpn6VDZc3nTQkKR4lWc5jMBuyn5567gbpkBRVEOG9jaa05XUDWz2UxbNkGZaTXJbnIx0mZbXYwc/s640/blogger-image--246450997.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCMiLaAEf_Sa5N8ptqjS7cqy8cuNHrMEcAZrK4Tba9NudlYHe6W_gRcxd4Wns8T_asEJXYvyMeoyEkTbtqwgNIsIKIMMmE3w27VzRt46qW7MNbpUQWxfKbO9_qYTLQq98m6GwgA_pvZrY/s640/blogger-image--706634680.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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She has a three month summer break and this could be the last opportunity we have, travelling on an extended break, before she finishes university and goes out into the wide world. This time our first stop is Cape Town. It's our first time in South Africa, or even Africa. We have only been here a couple of days and thanks to a lack of sleep, haven't been doing bucket loads of sightseeing. </div><div>We left Brisbane on January 1st, after being awake to see in the New Year. Not the most intelligent thing to do when you are facing 27 hours of travel. Consequently we both feel like crap on and off and fall asleep at the stupidest hours. </div><div>You will be seeing lots of travel posts and very few sewing related posts over the next couple of weeks. </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiZXrpd026_ex5Obsc_XkifVVyI9ro0DUYln_cP81k5GRG7qQlOUvOYMw7YSQUK0aN5NqGQibPxY6NnV8KA3OQ5qvQ_Uk-z4j8hoQviMaRB2zuqw19tuygVZQtnwPRoINdpVhhbgeo7h4/s640/blogger-image-1839818585.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiZXrpd026_ex5Obsc_XkifVVyI9ro0DUYln_cP81k5GRG7qQlOUvOYMw7YSQUK0aN5NqGQibPxY6NnV8KA3OQ5qvQ_Uk-z4j8hoQviMaRB2zuqw19tuygVZQtnwPRoINdpVhhbgeo7h4/s640/blogger-image-1839818585.jpg"></a></div>Flying into Cape Town</div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7l5mAAY78EkOR9Myd_9uog2AJMiVsaW0NbSTHTcF-9yvXqrqCaIiLkVOmnE1fvmdpPoFhyhmB77GnaMzVmuFo9V0xeoGt3JqvROUG9KsG6jywkgCQUZRijm9MB3i0v5oKFMIoJGRgho8/s640/blogger-image--152610784.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Look at the backdrop, stunning. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgkhjybd4zlSCt5C8o1lj1zZyjVz-kdUsjIskgp707KJ5AmON-oScZqkGspTcKkkHn4rvk54xn7WKhCMK2LZBKhB8fOjblOLh4_AEIpezy3iA6CyREnVdItRO5vGLPqiIhQ9-CwpY0nAE/s640/blogger-image--418729996.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgkhjybd4zlSCt5C8o1lj1zZyjVz-kdUsjIskgp707KJ5AmON-oScZqkGspTcKkkHn4rvk54xn7WKhCMK2LZBKhB8fOjblOLh4_AEIpezy3iA6CyREnVdItRO5vGLPqiIhQ9-CwpY0nAE/s640/blogger-image--418729996.jpg"></a></div></div>Morning fog yesterday, which cleared up during the morning to a sunny but slightly cool day. I am really really loving the lower humidity here, heaven. </div><br></div>Marghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09659940271976716013noreply@blogger.com10Southern Africa (null)-33.90725 18.459478tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819822382900769742.post-68866718143258924072014-10-06T18:10:00.003+10:002015-01-05T13:40:55.623+10:00Travel<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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If you follow me on Instagram, you will know I was away……….<i>again</i>, in July and August. This post is so late, like six months late. I'm hopeless at keeping a diary, not much better at posting on this blog either as you can see, but at least I will have some reference and photos here. 2015 will be my year of getting back into blogging (she says). Let's just see if I can do it. </div>
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I am very blessed to have some really good friends. One in particular, happens to own a house in south west France. This friend was going over there and asked if I would like to go with her. I didn't even have to think about it, I jumped at the chance. So I spent the last week of July and the first half of August swanning around France. 2014 has well and truly turned into the year of travel for me.</div>
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If you are bored seeing photos of France turn away now. <br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The bridge at Avignon (Pont d'Avignon)</td></tr>
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Marghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09659940271976716013noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819822382900769742.post-42468775534520755342014-10-06T16:59:00.000+10:002014-10-06T16:59:11.939+10:00Churn Dash<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It's been a beautiful long weekend here. The weather has been perfect, not too hot, not too humid and lots of sunshine, and what did I do? I spent most of the weekend sewing. You gotta do what you gotta do when your sewing mojo comes back. I did go out and enjoy the sunshine in between sewing stints.</div>
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I procrastinated for ages on what to do for the last border of the medallion quilt I have been working on since the beginning of the year. The orange peel blocks were finished and I don't think I showed a photo of them once they were added.</div>
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The original plan was for churn dash blocks. As usual, my unwillingness to commit kicked in and I spent ages trawling through books and the internet looking for alternate block ideas. I drove Shay insane, coming up with the perfect block then ditching the idea. I even made a couple of churn dash blocks in the meantime to see whether they would work. Didn't think much of them at the time. Eventually it was just too hard, I needed to make 40 x 6inch blocks, and I already had 2 churn dash blocks, so I took the easy option and went with it.</div>
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These are the last 6, laid out on an old cutting board covered with batting, I can take blocks to the sewing machine to sew, and not sew them in the wrong order. It's been very handy, my stuff up rate has been reduced considerably.</div>
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Marghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09659940271976716013noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819822382900769742.post-23198931544162427382014-09-27T13:45:00.001+10:002014-09-27T13:45:09.996+10:00Aqua, red and orange<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I ca't believe I have actually finished a quilt. It's not a big quilt, but it's a finish. I wanted to make a quilt for the Mary Potter Hospice, after I saw that Shay had made a couple of quilts for this wonderful cause.</div>
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This quilt was originally intended to be a gift for someone, but after I had started sewing it together, I realised that it probably wasn't quite right for the intended recipient. So the pieces languished in a box for over a year. I wanted to make something quick for the hospice. As you all know I am the queen of procrastination, and usually take years to finish anything, but I remembered I had the blocks half sewn and pulled them out. These were cut from a layer cake and I can't remember for the life of me the name of the pattern, but it was a free one I found on the internet. I can't remember the name of the fabric either, other than it was a Riley Blake line.</div>
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For the hospice, the quilt has to be no more than 48 inches square. As I already had these blocks cut and they were 9 inches finished, I went with a 45 inch square layout.<br />
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The excess blocks were used in the backing. The rest of the backing was from my stash too, which was an almost perfect match to the Riley Blake fabric.<br />
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I wanted to have a scrappy binding, so I carefully unpicked the rest of the blocks that were left, and cut pieces for the binding strips. Unfortunately I didn't have enough, but I found a Bella solids jelly roll in aqua, hiding in the back of a drawer, which matched almost perfectly.<br />
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I quilted 1/4 inch either side of some of the seams, and also added some random lines to make sure it was quilted enough. The hospice prefer the quilts to be lightly quilted so they stay soft.</div>
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Now I just need to wash and dry it so it's all nice and crinkly and send it on it's way.</div>
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Speaking of sunshine, we have had THE most amazing weather here. We have had days and days of beautiful sunshine, although some of the days and a lot of the nights have been freezing cold. Down to 3 or 4 deg C at night. That's cold, really cold. It has been good for my sewing productivity though. Cold enough for me to be quite happy to hand quilt with a quilt on my lap. None of that horrible humid, sweaty OMG I'm going to die from heat exhaustion stuff happening here at this time of year. Yay.<div>
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I digress, I was talking about a finish. I've finally finished the Red Letter Day quilt top. Unfortunately it's not exactly an award winning photo, but I've realised that if I wait for the perfect light etc to take a photo, the photo never happens. Then the blog post never happens either. So for the rest of this year, you get to see photos, good or bad, and I. will. be. blogging, even if it kills me!</div>
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All 9 blocks completed. Like I said, not a great photo, but you get the idea. If you follow me on Instagram you know I had a bit of a problem with the lack of grey background fabric. Fortunately with a bit of creative unpicking and re sewing, I had enough to finish the middle block. It is supposed to be the reverse of the rest of the blocks but as usual, I had to do my own thing, so I played around with the fabric in the middle block, and came up with something a little different. I just noticed the middle block looks like it has measles or chicken pox. Great! At least it doesn't (I hope) look like that in real life. I used a variety of fabrics from lots of different lines. Not one piece of fabric was bought for this quilt, it all came from my stash. </div>
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I'm pretty happy with this quilt top even though it hasn't exactly turned out how it was in my mind. Don't you hate that! I always have these visions of amazing quilts, but when I start putting it together, it's often not quite as awesome as I thought it would be.<br />
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Here's a close up of the centre block, with some AMH Innocent Crush.<br />
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Not my finest sewing skills, but I'm pretty happy with how it's come together. Don't hold your breath for a complete finish on this one any time soon, as I have a lot of WIP's that I really want to finish first, including the one below. Gee, hand quilting takes a looooong time, so I'm very slowly quilting Starflowers.</div>
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The hand quilting thread is a variegated perle 12 cotton. I love the subtle colours and they work really well with the colours in the blocks. I'm slowly perfecting, ha ha, or at least improving, my stitch length and the ability to quilt in a straight line. Who knew that could be so difficult on such a short distance.</div>
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A lot of socialising and enjoying the Noosa weather has been on the agenda too.</div>
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We spent a couple of hours at Hasting St in Noosa last week and had lunch in the Sheraton bar. I love the decor in this bar. Even though it was cold enough to be wearing boots, and a cardigan, it was nice to soak up the tropical ambience.<br />
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BP and I went to Lake Weyba in the late afternoon last week, just before sunset. How beautiful is this view? I sometimes take this piece of paradise for granted, I need to get out and about more.<br />
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Marghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09659940271976716013noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819822382900769742.post-35540316939277769352014-07-03T21:10:00.001+10:002014-07-03T21:10:53.838+10:00181 days left of 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Yes, I have been away.....again!</div>
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My last post was in April, it seems like years ago.</div>
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So here's what I've been up to since my last blog post.</div>
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Lots of photos, not too many words.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Went to Melbourne with my best buddy Shay for the AQC, look, blue sky and sunshine, seriously awesome.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's winter here now, look, blue sky and sunshine, as always in paradise.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Flew to another paradise.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I attempted paper pieced arcs for a pickle dish quilt, loving these. Definitely want to make lots of them.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I finished the Dresden quilt top. A four patch border, now I need to make the back.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I started playing with this block.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Made quite a few.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I've even quilted it, now just need to find the time and the motivation to do the binding.</td></tr>
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Finally I was lucky enough to go to both Camille's trunk show and Red Letter Day class in Brisbane last month. A really fantastic experience.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Holly, who accompanied Camille for the Red Letter Day classes and trunk shows.</td></tr>
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Another finish for 2014. Originally this was going to be a big quilt, a large wall hanging, but after sewing this many 1 inch hexagons and becoming very very bored with it, it's now more the size of a large table runner. You will find this a recurring theme with me, I don't enjoy making big quilts especially one that is very repetitive. I have a very short attention span.<br />
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The fabric and pattern is very busy, so I decided on minimal quilting. I divided the quilt into four sectors and each area is quilted in a different colour thread. I used 50wt Aurifil thread in #1147 #2479 #5002 and #5005.</div>
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For the binding I used a Kaffe fabric which I'm really happy with as it seems to blend into each of the different colours around the quilt.<br />
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Variety of fabrics from my stash including Kaffe, AMH, Amy Butler, Sketch and more.</div>
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I haven't pressed it properly yet, as somebody (cough cough) may have used a Frixxion pen when tracing some of the pieces. Frixxion marks of course disappear when you iron them. Until this is sewn into the outer ring there is no way I'm pressing it with an iron. It has been finger pressed in the mean time.</div>
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A little bit late coming to the party this week, but as I was under the weather on Wednesday night, Shay and I decided Thursday night was a good as any to enjoy a cocktail.<br />
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This week it was my pick. Moose Milk. I was introduced to this 13 years ago, I remember exactly when, because I was hooked instantly. It tasted soooooooo good. Shay was very very skeptical at first as the name didn't make her salivate and she asked me where the heck was she going to find Moose Milk in Australia. At least I think we'd have a better chance of finding that than finding some of the very strange ingredients in some of the cocktails from the good old U S of A.</div>
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There are 1001 recipes out there for this, basically it's ice cream mixed with three equal parts of any alcohol you see fit to put into it. It's another alcoholic drink that I think works well with rum. It's strange because I didn't think I really liked rum, especially rum and coke, that's just nasty, but I've taken a liking to a few rum based drinks including this one and a Mojito.</div>
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The base recipe for this week's cocktail can be found <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/cocktail-of-the-week-moose-milk" target="_blank">here</a>. I opted to change out the Bailey's with Butterscotch Schnapps, as I don't see the point in putting a cream based drink into loads of ice-cream. Some recipes say to add eggs, why?, IMHO that is just plain outright weird. </div>
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This one is well and truly a 5 out of 5. You can find Shay's take on this cocktail <a href="http://fairybreadmusings.blogspot.com.au/2014/02/cocktail-wednesday-yes-i-know-its-friday.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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It's Wednesday again. Something special happened today, my baby came back and it's working like new. No tension issues and it's been purring it's way through some quilting. YAY!!!!!</div>
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I quilted the hexagon chevrons this evening, but you'll have to wait until tomorrow to see it. In the meantime I've been playing with waterlogue thanks to Liz at <a href="http://www.broderie.typepad.com/" target="_blank">Broderie</a> who put some beautiful photos on Instagram. I just had to jump in and get the app too. Here's a photo of my hexies as I was trying to decide how to quilt it.</div>
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As it's Wednesday it's also cocktail time. Last week I was away and forgot to make it beforehand, better late than never, I say!</div>
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It looks like that because I could only find standard cranberry juice not white cranberry. I'm sure it tasted the same, just looked a bit, umm, dirty. It was good, and I will make it again if and when I can get my hands on some white cranberry juice. A 4.5 out of 5 for this one.</div>
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This week's cocktail - I have no idea what it's called as I deleted the email that had the info. However <a href="http://fairybreadmusings.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">Shay</a> face timed me and gave me the recipe, and I still forgot to ask her what it's called.</div>
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I didn't take a photo of the ingredients this week, but it involved a copious quantity of Kahlua, some ice, milk and chocolate syrup. Instead of having it before dinner I deemed it perfect for dessert, and I finished it off pretty quickly. It was a little bit sweet for my taste, I'd probably reduce the chocolate syrup next time, and there will be a next time because it was very yummy. 4.5 out of 5 for this one too.</div>
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I'm off on vacay this weekend. I hope I will still have time to do a blog post or two while I'm away. I might post some clues, so you can guess where I am. I will definitely be posting photos on Instagram. My fur babies are going to be very happy, they won't be going to the kennels or cattery as they will be looked after by a wonderful friend who has offered to house and fur baby sit for me. I hope she knows what she's in for!!!!!</div>
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Lots of sewing happening at Chez Sunshine until Tuesday when my machine started having issues with the tension. After playing around, trying to fix it, with no positive results, it's now gone in to sewing machine hospital. It was well overdue for a service and it's going to take two weeks, sigh. So after finally having my mojo back after misplacing it for most of last year, I now have to put my sewing plans on the back burner. Fortunately I have a few hand stitching projects to work on in the meantime.</div>
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I've finished 10 of the 38 orange peel/petal blocks. Lucky, I really love making these and I can concentrate on making a few more over the next few weeks. I'm doing the needle turn appliqué method so they are not fast but it's satisfying making these.<br />
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The Starflowers top is finally finished, full photos to come later. I really need to think of a new name for it. I've also made the backing, lucky me, that was the last thing I sewed before the sewing machine called in sick. I still have to get down on the floor and baste this baby, my favourite job, NOT. I was thinking about sending it out to be quilted but I would really like to hand quilt it. I could get a start on it while my machine is in hospital, although I'm not sure how easy or pleasant hand quilting is going to be with temps in the 30's and high humidity, yuck.<br />
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Up until the last couple of days, the weather has been really lovely and I've been walking a lot and taking Karma for a walk each day too.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s my turn this week, and I would have loved to have chosen a Toblerone, they are so yummy, but I didn’t want to kill Shay. You’re welcome Shay.<br />Instead I’ve chosen a Caipirinha, apparently the national drink of Brazil.<br /><br />It’s pretty much just lime, sugar, crushed ice and a type of rum called Cachaça, pronounced Ka cha sa. If you google Caipirinha, there’s quite a few recipe variations, but I like the simple original one. If you can’t find Cachaça, you could possibly just use a white rum like Bacardi instead, I think. (Not sure whether it would taste the same or similar, in fact I might just do a taste test this evening to check.) <i>Edited to add, after two with the Cachaca, it's not going to happen, but you are welcome to try.</i> You can use raw sugar or caster sugar or anything in between. You MUST use a fresh lime, not lime juice, as you need to muddle the lime with the sugar to release the oils in the lime rind.<br />It’s a really great summer drink, which is perfect for today as it's damn hot with roughly 10000000000% humidity. I kid you not.</span><br />
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This is a 5 out of 5 for me, a perfect summer pre dinner (during dinner, after dinner, what the heck, anytime it's hot) drink.</div>
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Marghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09659940271976716013noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819822382900769742.post-953176329276526172014-01-16T22:28:00.000+10:002014-01-16T22:28:02.514+10:00Incentive<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Im joining in in the FAL run this year by <a href="http://thelittlestthistlecraftshop.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">Katy of The Littlest Thistle</a>. I'm not sure whether this is a good thing or not, as I joined in the first quarter the last two years, only to fail dismally at each attempt. However, I'm aiming for third time lucky. I need an incentive to finish some WIP's, I work better under pressure and this year I can feel it in my waters. The year has started with a much more positive sewing vibe, and with my mojo still intact, I think I can achieve this very short list.<br />
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1. Starflowers.</div>
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It needs another small border, then I just need to choose fabric for the final border, and make a backing, baste, quilt and bind, easy peasy, ha!</div>
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2. Table runner/wall hanging</div>
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Again, a couple more borders to finish the top. I've been procrastinating for ages and I just need to suck it up and do it. </div>
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Although it's only three projects, it still involves three unfinished tops. I need to get my A into G if I can finish these by the end of March. </div>
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Marghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09659940271976716013noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819822382900769742.post-21522849676010817992014-01-09T21:06:00.000+10:002014-01-09T21:06:00.796+10:00Life this week<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I'm not sure what's happened to me but, <span style="font-size: x-small;">in a very small voice so I don't scare it away </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">, I'm still sewing and enjoying it.</span> My mojo has not disappeared ..................................yet.<br />
The flying geese have been made and are all attached.<br />
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I used the <a href="http://www.blocloc.com/" target="_blank">Bloc Loc ruler</a>, it's brilliant. My geese were perfect.<br />
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I'm merrily appliqueing orange peels to blocks for the next border, and at this stage, aiming to make one a day. So far I've finished 5. It's going to take awhile but I'm really enjoying it.<br />
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Last weekend, BP asked me if she could go through my stash to find some fabric so that I could make her a couple of cushions. I let her touch my fabric, secretly hoping she didn't pick any of my favourites. I have a lot of favourites. She's another one in my family that's not so keen on patchwork, so all that was required was a single piece of fabric that was big enough to make into two cushions. I even managed to find zips that matched. What is it with my family, most of them don't like patchwork? Is my work that bad? <br />
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Another week rolls by and it's only one week to Christmas Day, arghhhhhh.<br />
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This week's cocktail was brought to us by <a href="http://bluemountaindaisy.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">Rachael at Blue Mountain Daisy</a>.</div>
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It's a very summery and refreshingly sounding Cucumber Collins.</div>
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This is what mine looked like, very anaemic compared to Rachael's.</div>
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The verdict. It was a tiny bit too sweet for my taste. I don't love sweet cocktails, overall this is refreshing but next time I would add only a little simple syrup or none at all. It's a lovely fresh and unusual taste in a cocktail, but who doesn't love cool crisp cucumbers in summer. </div>
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I need to use smaller glasses. I only used half the amount of sugar, that was better, but it was still very anaemic looking, I think even paler than yesterday's, and with too much soda in it, the flavour was very subdued. A great drink for those hot summer evenings. I will absolutely make this one again, but next time I'll use much smaller glasses.</div>
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I'm so happy I finally have a quilt finished. It has only taken me about 18 months.<br />
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It is a quilt for my sister's big *0 birthday last year. Surprisingly, <span style="font-size: x-small;">cough cough</span>, I didn't have it finished in time for her birthday but I had made headway with it, so I "gave" it to her half finished and said I'll finish it for you in time for Christmas. I meant 2012 not 2013, but as usual, life and my tardiness got in the way.</div>
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The story behind this quilt. </div>
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Back in 2009 I travelled to Europe, and while in Paris I bought a present for my sister. Her name is Fi, and I know that Fée is French for fairy but I just couldn't resist this seriously cute cushion cover. My sis loved it but eventually said to me that it wasn't getting used as a cushion because it's quite big, Euro pillow size, and would I please make it into a quilt. The cushion cover fabric is a very fine pure cotton and creases a lot! A search through my fabric stash and voila, some coordinating fabric. Even though my sister wanted me to make a quilt, she wanted minimal piecing and minimal quilting. The front of the cushion cover was unpicked from the backing and I started adding borders.</div>
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A variety of fabrics from my stash, including a piece from Pashmina by Moda, Kona Charcoal, Bella Snow and a Denyse Schmidt from Spotlight fabric, not all seen in the above shot.<br />
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Minimal piecing meant I chose to make a medallion style quilt with simple borders. Minimal quilting ended up being stitch in the ditch, using Aurifil 2021 and 2024 50wt. I love quilting with the Aurifil thread as it's fine and it sits nicely into the fabric, it's perfect for stitch in the ditch quilting. I also added a couple of extra machine quilted lines to add some very subtle quilting detail.</div>
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The next challenge was how to quilt the centre panel. That took a lot of thought, I eventually machine quilted around the outside of the fairy, and then used white Perle 8 to add lots of daisies to the design. The original design had embroidered red and blue daisies scattered across the background. I couldn't match the thread colour and weight so I added white. They are hard to see in the photos, but that was the whole idea, I didn't want them to be a distraction. I made each daisy adding two to three stitches in the centre of each flower, going through the backing to anchor it. </div>
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Marghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09659940271976716013noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819822382900769742.post-15058917975381621682013-12-11T21:56:00.002+10:002013-12-11T21:56:58.156+10:00The colour purple<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I hope you're sitting down, it's a bit of a shock that I'm posting twice in one day.</div>
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I haven't just been drinking cocktails the last few weeks, a little bit of sewing has been happening too. Not at the same time. Hmm that's a thought, maybe if I drank more I'd get more sewing done.</div>
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Firstly I've been playing with clamshells. Shock horror. I never ever thought I'd attempt anything using clamshells, but a few weeks ago, I saw one of Sue Daly's quilts that had clamshells in the design and Sue showed how she makes them. It was so darn easy I just had to try, and here's the first few I cut out. Please overlook that they are not pressed and looking pristine, I had just rescued them from under the cat. If all goes to plan I should have cut another 50 or so by the end of the <strike>week</strike> <strike>year</strike>, decade.</div>
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They are going to be added to the EPP block that I showed you last week, I think.<br />
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I'm ahead of the game too, have you seen Pantone's colour for 2014? Radiant Orchid.<br />
I can use up my purple stash and be right on trend!!!!!!!<br />
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Another crap photo, but I'm in the middle of hand quilting this baby and I wasn't going to go and press it just for the sake of the photo, I'm lazy, and really what's the point when it's just going to get all scrunched up again 5 minutes later. I'm almost at the end of this project, it's the quilt for my sister. Some of you may remember it was supposed to be for her big 0 birthday last year, yep that's right, it was almost 18 months ago. I'm now aiming for Christmas this year, and I'm presently sewing lots and lots of daisies (the white ones) </div>
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Marghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09659940271976716013noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819822382900769742.post-43396618396770555782013-12-11T20:48:00.000+10:002013-12-11T20:48:28.809+10:00Cocktail Wednesday<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Wow the weeks are disappearing very quickly, yikes, only two weeks until Christmas. That's a good reason to taste test a cocktail or two. I need to decide which drinks are going to make the cut and will be served on Christmas Day. That brings me to today's cocktail.</div>
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I'm not sure whether this one has a name, <a href="http://fairybreadmusings.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">Shay</a> picked it so we'll just have to ask her. I think it's called a cranberry cocktail, if not, I'm sure Shay can come up with a suitable and probably highly inappropriate name!!!! </div>
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Anyhoo, the ingredient's for this one are in the pic below. As usual I forgot to include one of the ingredients. You'd think I was taste testing the cocktails before I took the photo, as this is the second week in a row I've stuffed it up.</div>
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The recipe for this one: a handful of ice, a shot of vodka, I had cranberry vodka on hand, so I used that instead of regular vodka. Topped up with cranberry juice and dry ginger ale and served with a lime wedge and a mint sprig. Oh and if I lived somewhere I could get my hands on fresh cranberries, I'd have chucked a couple into the glass too for some festive cheer.</div>
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