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Post by sandrainsydney on Feb 21, 2015 15:08:51 GMT
I picked up an unwanted dining chair with a cracked vinyl seat from the back lane sometime back & as I decided it wasperfect to hold a box of craft stuff & occasionally a guest. Last week I decided it needed a better cover so gathered together my purplish Japanese cottons, cut out what seemed like lotsa' 3" squares & started joining them. Second row saw a pattern develop (purple curves & green squares) & 3rd row continued it. Then I needed more fabrics so visited Sue who has lots. As there weren't enough old fabrics to mix with the new I decided another pattern - in old fabrics - would hold it together & voila! As I only has a longish scrap of green left I joined it cos it would be folded underneath the vinyl As as I have lotsa' old & new squares I decided to cover the back Attachments:
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Post by ragdall on Feb 23, 2015 9:43:32 GMT
Very colourful and useful, Sandra. That will certainly dress up the found chair. Will the back have pieces of the same fabrics as the seat? I hope that you'll post a photo of the finished covered chair.
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Post by jennieg on Feb 23, 2015 11:01:41 GMT
Pretty!
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Post by sandrainsydney on Feb 24, 2015 1:38:58 GMT
chair back will use up left over purple patches. Attachments:
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Post by sandrainsydney on Feb 24, 2015 1:51:13 GMT
Tetra pouch - bought the kit from Patchwork Mariko last year & had fun making it - my craft group had fun watching me make it, too Attachments:
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Post by sandrainsydney on Feb 24, 2015 2:24:39 GMT
The beach huts panel. The fabric came in the first issue of this 90 part weekly product which includes patterns & material & other goodies & lotsa' free gifts! Anyone foolish to buy the whole 90 issues would pay $976.10 + cost of batting to make the quilt from the materials supplied. But they do get lots free stuff!! But when you only buy the first issue for the special price of $2.95 ($10.99 regular price) it's good value & I loved the beach hut fabric. Attachments:
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Post by maeve on Feb 24, 2015 14:21:03 GMT
Pretty- and that Tetra Pouch looks like fun.
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Post by ragdall on Feb 27, 2015 11:28:38 GMT
My goodness, a person would have to be rich to do the entire 90 part weekly product! The beach huts panel is cheerful.
I like the colours of the tetra pouch. It looks very complicated to make. What do you use it for?
Is that your laptop cover in the chair back photo?
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Post by sandrainsydney on Mar 14, 2015 0:49:43 GMT
My goodness, a person would have to be rich to do the entire 90 part weekly product! The beach huts panel is cheerful. I like the colours of the tetra pouch. It looks very complicated to make. What do you use it for? Is that your laptop cover in the chair back photo? maybe not rich, just not observant - the price details are included on the leaflet/order form. Those weekly publications with collector items (build a doll house! collect model cars etc) rely on folks who think it is a bargain way to do it, but it is not always a bargain & non-subscru-ibers can have problems getting issues problems with partwork magazine supplyAnd the material supplied in the quilt partwork was not good quality - the stuff we can get here from gen4eral craft/haberdashery/manchester shops, not patchwork shops. But then I was only buying the first issue! the tetra pouch joins a box of other interesting Japanese stuff - unless I can think of something to store in it. The sheeps cover covers my iMac - I don't have a laptop. Pic of chair back top main colours in each row are from the seat cover - several new fabrics were introduced into the back Attachments:
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Post by ragdall on Mar 14, 2015 8:30:31 GMT
Sandra, The chair back cover is lovely! The chair will be a work of art when it's all completed. That's nasty about the suppliers deliberately shorting the retailers in hopes that customers will subscribe directly in order to continue getting the series.
Oops, my bad. For some reason I was visualizing a laptop when you were working on the flock of sheep. I should know better because I worked on call in school computer labs for many years and had the pleasure of walking into a lab that had 30 some new iMacs. I'd never seen an iMac of that generation before and was bewildered when I couldn't find the towers to power them up before students arrived. It took me a while to realize that what I'd first thought was a monitor was all there was.
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Post by sandrainsydney on Mar 14, 2015 13:39:27 GMT
when I bought my first iMac (I'm using no. 2) 10? years ago, a friend could not understand it was a one-piece computer. I described it as a laptop on a leg & told her to do a google image search - ohhh, she said.
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Post by ragdall on Mar 16, 2015 21:05:34 GMT
That's a great way to describe it. If one were to remove the keyboard from a laptop, fasten the screen in its place and tilt it upright, it would become a one-piece computer with a separate keyboard. This is the version of iMac that I struggled with in schools, prior to the the one-piece version. Great use for an IMac One of the great features of Apple computer used to be that Apple was the only source of software and everything worked so well together. Then Apple allowed other companies to make software that would run on Apple products, but at that time it never ran very well. I spend most of my time in the lab freeing up computers that refused to run in the midst of students' activities on them. Hence my sarcastic comment about iMacs on that photo. But I digress. I'm looking forward to seeing the fabrics on the finished chair.
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Post by sandrainsydney on Mar 17, 2015 1:37:40 GMT
I saw a great mailbox a few years back - like your plant pot it has once been a working apple computer & naturally it could hold a lot of mail, with very easy access thru the screen for the postie.
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Post by sandrainsydney on Mar 22, 2015 12:24:56 GMT
every Easter I head to Canberra fro the national Folk Festival & almost every year I manage to visit my friend & former colleague who moved to Canberra years ago with husband & 5 cats, & for the past( mumble, mumble) number of ye4ars I've been meaning to create a bag for her. finally ... the handles are a braid with the name of "raffia" - I'm hoping it is a plastic raffia as I'm not sure how real raffia would wash. my screen saver is one of Robyn's cats (or one of the cats which own Robyn & Geoff) sandra (whose middle name would be Gunna if she had one!) Attachments:
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Post by sandrainsydney on Mar 22, 2015 12:33:58 GMT
I can't remember when she went to Canberra but it was some years before I retired (2007) so the cats are elderly now & here's a pic of the 3 survivors taken last year. Pics of Tabitha the tabby were taken in 2009. Attachments:
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