ragdall
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Post by ragdall on Nov 18, 2010 6:37:17 GMT
Sandra, Thank you for the link to the pinking machine. I'd never heard of or seen one before. When you mentioned cutting the silk with Fiskars scissors, I expected to see the kind with the fancy edge such as my daughter uses for scrapbooking. Did you cut at angles and "hand pink" each square? Thanks, rags |
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Post by sandrainsydney on Nov 18, 2010 7:57:00 GMT
my fiskar scissors are meant for use with sore hands & just cut in straight lines.
some of the edges are fraying so I try to treat the strips very gently!
sandra
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Post by sandrainsydney on Dec 18, 2010 2:55:38 GMT
my, but it's been a long time since I posted! quilt is proceeding slowly - other stuff needed doing. I teach a small class of felt toys - we have been doing christmas decorations last term (semester) here's mouse -  |
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Post by sandrainsydney on Dec 18, 2010 2:57:58 GMT
and here she is wrapped for giving! sooo cute!  |
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Post by sandrainsydney on Dec 18, 2010 2:59:31 GMT
roo, koala & wombat  |
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Post by sandrainsydney on Dec 18, 2010 3:00:48 GMT
I collect reindeer, so when I found another reindeer pattern ...  |
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Post by sandrainsydney on Dec 18, 2010 3:17:01 GMT
The Silk Quilt - almost done - 4 rows to sew yet, then finish it maybe with very fine iron-on pellon tho very wide seams took care of fraying add very thin wadding make back, probably in silk, definitely with a few silk squares scattered over it! finally cover seams with thin silk ribbon & bind it - sewing on the ribbon will cover the very tiny differences between pieces (invisible in large quilts but very obvious on something so small) & will also serve as quilting around the pieces. easy - hardly any work left!! just gotta get round to it. sandra (whose middle name would be Gunna if she had one!)  |
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Post by jennieg on Dec 22, 2010 10:36:20 GMT
Goooooorgeous.......pretty too........ Recently I finished a table runner using fabric that was a gift about 12 years ago, and although I am not confident at machine quilting I quilted holly leaves to break up the background. bronzewombat.blogspot.com/ You have no idea how pleased I am about it! |
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Post by sandrainsydney on Dec 22, 2010 11:16:53 GMT
clever machine quilter!
I recently washed 3 dress fabric lengths - well, the 1993 fabric is a dress fabric - a lovely floral 100% cotton, the other 2 are 100% quilting cotton, also florals. After washing & drying them they sat around for several weeks, & are now back in the (dress) fabric drawer.
I really must get Round-to-It & make something. One day.
I've also washed my 2 very decrepit kitchen rags (aka. oven cloths). They were made by my mother sometime in the mid/later 70's from a raggy dress & old towels & have huge holes in each side. I'll be patching them in the true Sashiko fashion. Japanese peasants back in the olden days had little cloth so stuck a patch on each hole/tear in a garment & held it down with stitches, which led to the elegant indigo-with-white-running-stitches we do today.
They're very sentimental kitchen rags - I was wearing the dress one day in 1972 when my younger sister & I were snapped at Paddy's market & we only knew it appeared in a magazine cos our Aunt bought it! And I can't find the picture, phooey.
sandra
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Post by sandrainsydney on Jan 11, 2011 9:36:12 GMT
The doll quilt is still untouched & we go back to Craft tomorrow after our 4 week break! I did look at it last night & re-pin it, pinning on seam lines to see if I could ease the differences - tho one seam has been pinned as it's too much to ease. my latest decoration, adapted from one I bought  |
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Post by ragdall on Jan 11, 2011 10:31:10 GMT
Cute decoration, Sandra!
Good luck getting the doll quilt to work out.
rags
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Post by sandrainsydney on Feb 5, 2011 13:39:34 GMT
I've just spent a few hours starting 2 new oven cloths! As all my fabrics are Japanese & the old oven rags were made from an Indian dress, patching wouldn't work - so I changed plan. 2 indigo pieces padded with an old hand towel, backed with patches of indigo. One is quilted, & ready for neatening, then edging.  |
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Post by sandrainsydney on Feb 5, 2011 13:41:37 GMT
the other sides! Notr much left to do! At least I'll have something finished to show next Craft group. I might even find time to work on the Doll quilt.  |
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Post by ragdall on Feb 5, 2011 23:27:56 GMT
Useful and decorative! Well done.
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Post by sandrainsydney on Feb 12, 2011 13:46:45 GMT
& finished!  |
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