sketches

I was going through some files on the computer and came across these sketches that I scanned in some time ago.
It's been so long since I sketched anything, I look at these and doubt I could do even this now. I need to get back to regular drawing.







and this was a sketch of one of my mermaid dolls, the others look a bit teen/goth, but I was quite pleased with the mermaid



this is one of my mermaids I was trying to draw:

Wine and quilts

I saw a great quilting exhibition on Sunday down at Mittagong at Bou-saada Vineyard

I wrote up the trip on my garden blog here

but just thought I'd show you a corner of the winery with some of the quilts on the walls

Fabric Book exchange

Remember all those pages I made with the painted and embroidered pictures of ladies lunching.

I finally got around to putting together my book of all the pages I received in the swap.

Toni made us all a cover that wrapped completely around the pages.
I joined the paged by sewing through all the layers, separating each page with beads then going back through the layers and tying off at the back

I've uploaded all the individual pages to the Ladies Who Lunch set on Flickr.com

Dawn's Birthday Book

I've just finished uploading to Flickr the fabric post cards made by our Ladies Who Lunch group for Dawn's birthday book.
I just wanted to show these pages so you could see the book open,
the rest of the pictures can be found at the Ladies Who Lunch Set on Flickr.com





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just a taster

I'm off today to a friends 70th birthday - a group of us decided to make her some fabric postcards and I was relegated/pressganged into doing something with them, so I made a fabric book to hold them

More later, have to go make a plate of sandwiches....




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Machine embroidery

wow, I can't believe how long it has been since I last posted - a gentle prod from Diane on the Artful Quilters webring has brought me out of hiding.
...and I wanted to thank everyone who has been commenting on the art quilts exercises, I do appreciate the suggestions and comments and I'm sorry I was away for so long without replying to you.

I read somewhere that if you stop blogging not to make excuses, just get into it again, so I won't tell you about husband having an angiogram and stents in an artery, or my computer virus which took me weeks to clean out, or daughters' stolen car, or sewing machine going in for an overhaul, instead I'll bring out a couple of small pieces I made after reading an article by Carole Redlich in 'Quilting Arts' magazine Fall 2005.

The background fabric was a collage of fabric scraps then machined over using the patterned automatic stitches on my machine, then the piece cut into smaller rectangles and reassembled.






I think these would make a good background for ATC's or fabric postcards, or incorporate into panels as Carole has done in the magazine to make a great looking bag.

I've also been playing with the beta blogger, doesn't look like blogspot is going to move any of us over in a hurry, I haven't decided whether to move over to it myself or stay here - I really like the ability to set categories and tag your posts.

...and I've finally worked out how PayPal works, so can now sell my doll patterns from my web site

Now I'm back I'll have more to show very soon as I've done a workshop with Effie Mitrofanis, and have been making a concertina book to hold some fabric ATC's for a friends birthday.

Forgot to also say daughter took my digital camera on holidays and liked it so much I don't have it back yet!!!
so it was a good excuse to buy another smaller model that I can slip in my purse, but I have to work out how to use it first.

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