ragdall
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Post by ragdall on Nov 1, 2016 6:50:09 GMT
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Post by sandrainsydney on Nov 1, 2016 10:42:03 GMT
amazing & not a spider in sight!!
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Post by maeve on Nov 1, 2016 12:26:31 GMT
Funny, rags!
Sandra, I agree, and I'd like to make a stack of them for guest seating. (And that's the first link here in a long time that takes me to the site!)
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Post by sandrainsydney on Nov 2, 2016 8:25:44 GMT
egads - what is wrong with your connection??? it's working!!
they would look great in your place - or anyone's place. What a fun idea.
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Post by ragdall on Nov 5, 2016 22:43:43 GMT
LOL! @ Sandra. Took me a minute to get the spider reference. Maeve, they would be great seating for visitors with good knees.  They could be made from scraps or thrifted material. An online search will yield free tuffet patterns. I found some step by step photos on a site that sells patterns: sewmod.wordpress.com/tag/tuffet-pattern-by-myra-mitchell/ (You'll have to scroll down the page a ways.) I hope that the link will work for you, maeve. On edit: I had a closer look at the materials. The legs, foam and spray glue could run up the expense, as would the plywood rounds if a person doesn't have a scrap plywood pile to draw from. |
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Post by sandrainsydney on Nov 5, 2016 23:11:03 GMT
if they were just round cushions ... |
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Post by maeve on Nov 5, 2016 23:17:40 GMT
Oh thanks very much Sandra and rags, but I won't be making any. Before seating comes water, sinks, shower, kitchen, insulation, walls, flooring...
(Forgot to say, rags, that no that link will not work for me...wonder what the difference is?)
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Post by sandrainsydney on Nov 6, 2016 5:17:32 GMT
priorities ...
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Post by jennieg on Jan 20, 2017 22:56:46 GMT
I love those tuffets - so bright and cheerful! Just before we went away for Christmas the final stitches were taken to finish my latest quilt. It was started - that is to say, the first blocks were made - in a class in late 2007, and them some more blocks were made, then we moved house six hours away, but still every now and then I would get those blocks out and admire them, and put them away again......until last year when the annual challenge for my quilt group was issued, "Circles". Those blocks were taken out once more, enough made to finish the quilt, and it was finished.  |
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Post by sandrainsydney on Jan 20, 2017 23:57:27 GMT
very restrained & elegant - just like you!
& where are the kangaroos which are normally in your back paddock?
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Post by ragdall on Jan 22, 2017 9:43:08 GMT
It's amazing, Jennie! It's fascinating to look at. There are so many shapes one can see in it. My perception flips from triangles, to squares, to "windmills", to circles. Was the annual challenge a contest?
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Post by jennieg on Jan 25, 2017 23:16:54 GMT
Thank you, Sandra and Rags!
The kangaroos must have been hiding that day. A bloke on the other side of the hill owns a small herd of cows (he buys and sells regularly, so we never know how many there will be) and they wander around. We don't mind, but sometimes it can smell quite ~rural~.
Not a contest, Rags - just for fun. It's not compulsory, I haven't worried about it for the past 2-3 years but thought it would be an reason to finish my quilt last year. I had always wanted to make a quilt using only black and white fabrics, there is no grey in this.
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Post by ragdall on Jan 28, 2017 0:20:03 GMT
Perhaps a small group of kangaroos are hiding behind the quilt?
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Post by sandrainsydney on Jan 28, 2017 9:41:55 GMT
here they are! Rags - I was referring to an Australian expression a few kangaroos loose in the top paddock!
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Post by maeve on Jan 28, 2017 13:22:20 GMT
What a beautiful and interesting quilt, jennieg!
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They could be made from scraps or thrifted material. 
