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Post by sandrainsydney on Jul 20, 2010 8:49:56 GMT
I didn't have my good tracing paper with me the day I copied the applique pattern, so I used some freezer paper owned by the Group. I just stitched round this increasingly holey pattern for the quilting.
I normally stitch thru tracing paper designs when quilting my pieces, this time I just stitched around a design! & reused the template very time.
sandra
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Post by Joan on Jul 25, 2010 2:39:22 GMT
Sandra, Rags and I are just wondering about your camping lights. How big are they? Could you show a picture of them? Full of questions aren't I ? Joan
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Post by sandrainsydney on Jul 25, 2010 9:27:17 GMT
here 'tis the very light www.raysoutdoors.com.au/product/417/Tent+light+with+remote/68 - tho I sent the remote to my local charity shop. The light fits into my hand & is mounted on the wall of my tent using the magnet on the back & the rectangular plate. Two mounted on opposite sides of my 4-person tent will give perfect light. sandra
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Post by ragdall on Jul 25, 2010 10:05:12 GMT
Sandra, Thanks for posting a link to the picture. I've never seen lights for tents before. They look as if they would be very useful. I think I would have kept the remote. It would be nice to snuggle into a sleeping bag before switching off the lights.
I'm thinking it might be somewhat warmer when you camp than it used to be when I camped when my children were little? We could usually count on frost on the water basin in the mornings, sometimes it would be snowing too.
rags
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Post by sandrainsydney on Jul 25, 2010 15:19:18 GMT
I go to 4 festivals a year & camp at 2. Late Jan, mid summer, about 100km south of Sydney, about 5 min. walk to the beach, tho I've never been there in the 6 years of the Festival! Daytime temps in the late 20's - early 30's (double & add 30 to get approx. F. temperatures), sometimes need a cotton blanket at night, some nights a sheet only. Second Festival is at Easter, in Canberra, inland, 2-3 hours to the nearest beach!. and the same time south west of Sydney. Summer dresses & shady hat in the day & thermals, fleece & woolly stuff at night. I also sleep in thermals there, under my 80% down quilt, & wear thick woolly socks. If Easter is late, we can get frost at night, 2000, 2006 & 2009 all had frosty nights, 2010 was not so cold, some nights i carried my thick coat back to my camp. As Easter is 4th weekend in April next year, I'm sure we'll get frost again. sandra
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Post by ragdall on Jul 26, 2010 8:09:09 GMT
Sandra, Thanks for all the information about your camping weather. I think of Australia as always being warm.
I can see from the photo that you are also familiar with waking up to find ice on water while camping.
We use Celcius for temperatures in Canada, too. I have thermometers with both scales on them which are handy when I tell Americans our temperatures.
rags
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Post by sandrainsydney on Jul 28, 2010 10:11:00 GMT
here tis! - the Wall-less Wallhanging ready for backing. I will be trying the corners of the squares & make a few stitches in various places on the patchwork area to keep it in place. Backing will be a similar indigo fabric. I'll probably just fold in the edges. sandra.
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Post by sandrainsydney on Jul 28, 2010 10:14:31 GMT
What's a wall-less wallhanging I hear you cry? Well, I don't have a spare wall, & I'm not interested in making a quilt. It might just spend it's life folded in the cupboard - if I can find a spare shelf.
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Post by maeve on Jul 28, 2010 16:41:00 GMT
That is a beautiful piece of work, Sandra! Look how the colors sparkle!
Maeve
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Post by sandrainsydney on Jul 28, 2010 23:23:05 GMT
Thankyou.
I'm just amazed how the colours fitted. I didn't have enough large pieces of blue to work it out - I cut the larger pieces from my few fat qtrs & large scraps, then cut the rest from the smaller bits. My stripy piece was a very small rectangle, smaller than a postcard!
One of my friends intends doing the same one day & as she is a "real" quilter with a stash that fits into several cupboards (lucky her!) she will be able to match the colours/patterns thoroughly.
Mine shows what can be done using a stash that fits into 3 shoeboxes & it's perfect.
When I move in a few years, I hope to have a spare wall. Or maybe it can go over the end of the sofa bed (wow! - a guest room where artists I book for my folk club can get a billet!)
Tho back in the days when I had a sofa it was a very good place-to-throw-stuff. But maybe when I have an extra room ...
sandra
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Post by ragdall on Jul 29, 2010 7:41:25 GMT
Sandra, It's gorgeous!
Thank you for explaining the wall-less designation. There must be somewhere you can display it? It's much too beautiful to spend its life on a shelf.
rags
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Post by sandrainsydney on Jul 29, 2010 8:19:45 GMT
over the back of my computer chair? or my second computer chair? on the end of my bed? hanging on the wardrobe on 3 skirt hangers???
I'll ponder upon it.
sandra
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Post by sandrainsydney on Aug 12, 2010 1:32:44 GMT
here 'tis! The backing is indigo with black splotches! It's not a Japanese fabric, but the nearest fabric assistant in quilting shop could find & looks great. I decided not to tie the corners after experimenting, so I quilted around all squares (& rectangles, to be pedantic!) as well as around all appliques. The panel wasn't cut correctly by the woman who cut it, & the previous panel was also miscut. So I lost some detail top & bottom - the design on the borders is the design at the top of the panel & is called Waves. I copied it on tissue paper from the bit I had. The names of the bottom pieces disappeared into the hem - the applique panel is Noshi (= a good luck symbol based on strips of seaweed) & the next 4 panels are Butterfly, Plover, Autumn, Congratulate. One of our group recently got a very cheap panel cos another person in another shop also didn't open it out before cutting!
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Post by sandrainsydney on Aug 12, 2010 1:34:30 GMT
detail - I didn't stitch around the calligraphy. I decided that back stitch or stem stitch would take away from the smooth lines. I have a vintage embroidery, a Willow Pattern mat, made using tiny little back stitches that are very hard to see - not something I can do. sandra
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Post by maeve on Aug 12, 2010 9:54:36 GMT
It's beautiful, Sandra!
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