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Post by jennieg on Mar 16, 2011 20:49:25 GMT
I like Scotty Dog, he even has a tartan collar - but they are all cute!
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Post by sandrainsydney on Mar 17, 2011 9:23:33 GMT
that collar is Cameron plaid ribbon!
I have a few plaid ribbons bought way back in the 90s from The Scottish Shop! All with their names carefully written on the crdboard roll where they are kept.
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Post by sandrainsydney on Apr 8, 2011 8:44:25 GMT
tomorrow the Japanese church which runs the Friday craft group where I teach sewing, mainly making felt toys, is having a fete to raise money for people affected by the earthquake & tsunami. As I can't attend the fete, I made a heap of little creatures - bunnies with tails are brooches. Several members of the group added to the pile. They were supposed to be making their own bunnies!
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Post by ragdall on Apr 9, 2011 8:48:57 GMT
Sandra, They're all very cute! I hope that they sell well and that the fete will raise lots of money to help out in Japan.
rags
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Post by sandrainsydney on Apr 29, 2011 14:33:57 GMT
Today we went back to Craft & I was told they raised $6000.
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Post by ragdall on May 6, 2011 11:09:14 GMT
Wonderful that they were able to raise so much money!
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Post by sandrainsydney on May 8, 2011 4:46:25 GMT
that's what I thought, but their "stall" was more like a full-sized fete.
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Post by sandrainsydney on May 18, 2011 12:51:05 GMT
well, after several months of can't-be-botheredness, I've started a big project. All I did was go thru my loose patterns & folders last night until inspiration struck. Didn't take long! Then I put everything back. My old 14" iMac was covered by a crazy patchwork, new 21" iMac will be covered by an applique of sheeps! I've been collecting sheep patterns & haven't used any yet so made up the patterns today & arranged them on a sheet of paper & will start work asap. I'll make them in felt, curly-haired leather & other interesting materials - dunno what I'll put them on. The patterns will also be used to make felt toys.
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Post by sandrainsydney on May 18, 2011 13:32:37 GMT
All materials on crazy patchwork are antique & vintage.
Oldest is a piece of circa mid 19th-Century hand-embroidered broderie anglaise, youngest are my 70's dress & blouse materials, & 70/80's embroidery & lacemaking UFOs & samples.
Blackwork, bullion roses, bobbin lace, needlelace, goldwork, smocking, drawn threadwork, counted threadwork, silk embroidery on a piece of 1950's dress material near top right, miniature blackwork on silk gauze (on top of orangy silk near centre of bottom, a sample for an 18" Tudor doll's sleeves & neckline)
Unusual stuff - square of black Sacred Heart nun's veiling at top right, wisp of silk tulle at bottom right, even wispier shred of a rotted 1920's eau de nil silk dress above the smocking. The undamaged eau de nil ribbon with a mauve edge was used to bind the piece.
Broderie is near the top right hand corner & bottom, blouse materials are 1. bottom left, divided by pink lace, 2. is above in a circle of lace, dress material is the crimson piece with 1930's womens heads. I still have the 2 blouses & the waistcoat I made from the dress when it no longer fitted - alas none of these items fit me now. .
Mum's 1950's ballerina-length evening dress (purple & black strip near bottom left - bobbin lace piece is across it), front & back of dad's 1950s tie is in 2 places - it's the green & grey piece above the orange silk & the beaded piece at top centre.
My ladies of fashion (18" dolls dressed at intervals from 1066 - 1911) are represented by a Chinese silk used for 1720 - (gold piece at left centre, next to blackwork), blue & pink striped silk worn by 1796 (between blouse pieces at left bottom), green & pink silk worn by 1778 (centre botttom, below purple & black), 1468's headdress & veil (1920's gold lace right of goldwork at bottom right, grey silk scarf under nun's veiling at top right.
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Post by maeve on May 18, 2011 17:20:32 GMT
Wonderful storybook of a crazy patchwork there, Sandra! The different fabrics make me miss my collection.
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Post by sandrainsydney on May 19, 2011 8:51:59 GMT
when it's time to make something similar perhaps your family/friends/neighbours/church family could contribute small bits from their lives.
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Post by maeve on May 19, 2011 11:20:38 GMT
Perhaps; but I think I won't try to remake what once was. I will gain some pleasure from making a quilt using the bits I salvaged, in combination with the beautiful quilt fabrics sent to me by you and other Mudcat friends.
Maeve
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Post by jennieg on May 21, 2011 1:06:47 GMT
After the Victorian (Oz not BC) bushfires early in 2009, a member of my online quilt group posted to say that a friend of her sister's - I think that was the connection, it's awhile ago now - had a collection of owls which she had lost in the fires. Not real owls fortunately! but little trinkets and all sorts of things. The suggestion was made that the group embers contribute owls for her. They did, to the extent that the new owl collection was much larger than the lost one.....but the new ones wouldn't have been her own owls, the holiday souvenirs she had collected when travelling, gifts she had been given etc. It's the memories that articles hold for us, as much as the articles themselves, that makes them special.
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Post by maeve on May 21, 2011 2:59:09 GMT
That's it, exactly, Jennie.
I'd rather make more new memories, and fewer collections.
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Post by ragdall on May 21, 2011 5:08:09 GMT
It's the memories that articles hold for us, as much as the articles themselves, that makes them special. Excellent point, Jennie. Sandra, that is a huge project! I'm looking forward to watching as it develops.
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