This is a video of a Hungarian band. The interesting thing about this band is what they are wearing on their heads! Fantastic felt hats by Judit Pocs. Of course if you are not into fantastic felt hats, you may prefer the music - rather jolly :)
Sunday 28 February 2010
Joan Schulze
Someone on the Quilt Art list posted a link to this blog and this article Venetian Red - Joan Schulze
I love this work – hope it reproduces correctly. It’s called The Visitors. And there is a website Joan Schulze.
anyway, interesting article :)
Saturday 27 February 2010
About.com
About.com – quilting is run by Janet Wickell who is an author and pretty well known in the quilting field. Prior to her taking over it was run by Susan Druding; both very accomplished people who worked hard to set up and improve this site.
it is an excellent resource for a beginning quilter – lots of info easily accessible and good forums where you can get plenty of advice should you need it. The page How to Make a Quilt is especially useful for newbies.
Sunday 21 February 2010
Beth Ferrier new BOM
http://applewd.com/BOM/page1.html changes on the 15th of the month
I have found problems with this site to do with the way VirginMedia route their stuff for this site. But eventually they did provide a fix for us and now it works, so I am pleased that I don’t have to go off borrowing other peoples’ computers who have different internet providers.
Friday 19 February 2010
Moda Bake Shop
While talking the other evening, Christine and Wilma were finding out about various quilting terms.
Moda Bake Shop are part of Moda Fabrics. They have patterns for quilts and other things and provide them free as ‘recipes’ using their pre-cut products. Of course you can use them without pre-cuts, by cutting your own strips. This page, The Bakery mentions their various cuts and at the bottom of each section is a link to view the patterns using that particular type of cut. Neat. And now Christine will know what a Honey Bun is LOL
Wednesday 17 February 2010
Breakaways 17th February
Very cold evening. For once I excelled myself and got there a bit earlier and turned up the heater. It was so nice to see everyone who managed to turn up!
First off, Chris J’s pyramids marching on apace – gorgeous, aren’t they? 
Wilma has more plates to show:
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Libby finished off another block and did the washing up
Lesley has gone totally crackers and decided to make a pincushion 4x4” finished. This is the front
Here are some of us :
This is Christine, cutting carefully with her new rotary cutter which puts mine to shame, sorry to say.
She is using this pattern from the incredibly useful About.com site. The pattern is called Hopscotch Baby Quilt Pattern and it is really very nice.
Christine and Wilma are investigating terminology such as Fat Quarters, Jelly Rolls, Layer Cakes etc. One does forget that not everybody knows what they mean!
And among the several things discussed was Doughty’s visit to Emsworth in March. I got the times wrong. It will be on Saturday 13th March at Emsworth Community Centre, Church Path, Emsworth , PO7 10DP from 10.30-2.30.
Our absentees were Pauline who is hopefully enjoying the company of her grandchildren in the Lake district – bet it’s cold…..and Jane whose Australian Cattle dog, Jack, has been very ill. Hope he makes a full recovery, Jane.
Sunday 14 February 2010
Meon Valley Quilters Show and Tell
ChrisJ and I visited the Meon Valley Quilters for their monthly meeting. There were some smashing quilts at the show and tell, including a Mariners Compass made by someone who has only been quilting for a year, and a little bag made by what must be the youngest member – I think she is about 7?
The hall was pretty full and the seating turned away from the stage. That was probably a good thing as otherwise people at the back would probably not have been able to see many of the smaller quilts, but people do tend to forget to turn the quilts so that everyone can see and of course with no stage there wasn’t really any height except for a couple of ladies who stood on something they probably shouldn’t have and held things up high enough for us all to see. A difficult one, that, but I enjoyed the show nonetheless.
The visitors this month were the Heather Quilters who are really busy quilters! I had met one of their members at Farnham Maltings and was pleased to be able to say hello again. What a varied selection of quilts we saw – a huge mix of traditional and contemporary, many journal quilts and smaller pieces, several bags and some simply enormous traditional quilts as well.
As usual, neither Chris nor I won anything in the raffle, LOL, but we did notice a sewing machine for sale, an older Pfaff and this has prompted me to point something out which some people may not have thought of.
I bought an older Bernina Record which, although it goes, doesn’t do anything except straight stitch at the moment. It is a lovely machine (though it weighs a ton)and with a beautiful stitch but when I took it to the repairman he said he could fix it, but first the electrics would need to be completely overhauled. So that adds considerably to the price and will probably mean that my mother’s old Singer will also have to undergo renovation. I am not quibbling about the cost, because that makes the machine good for many years to come, but it is something one might not be thinking about when purchasing an old machine from a private individual, unless they have already had the electrics sorted out.
RIP, Geoff
My uncle, (my father’s younger brother) died last Thursday. A release from a horribly tough year for him and his family. Sadly, my father wasn’t able to get to the hospital in time, but was able to say his goodbyes.
It was good to see my aunt and some of my cousins, but such sad circumstances. My thoughts and prayers are with them.
A time like this has made me realise I need to keep up with my family more – it is so easy to become absorbed in the day to day realities of work and one’s own immediate family and neglect anyone else…
Thursday 11 February 2010
Wednesday with the Breakaways
A report from Chris J as sadly I was unable to get to the meeting this week – I did miss you all!
Jane was doing Dresden plates. She bought a lovely new picture she has made. We all decided it was an angel.
Lesley layered up her black and white quilt which looked lovely. She also bought along her star quilt to finish the binding.
Libby brought her fantastic blocks from her course with Patricia.
Norma has 1½ rows of triangles to finish.
Linda is sewing triangles and has the book on order – they must be making a fortune with those books, I think most of us have a copy by now LOL. The book is :-
Quick and Easy Scrap Quilts edited by Patricia Wilens. Perhaps there is no fortune to be made, after all, having just seen the most recent prices, but it is a book worth having if you like scrappy quilts.
Christine is making a cot quilt in shades of turquoise and white. She cut out the pieces (we offered some hints and tips) and she sewed a couple together.
Pauline is making up the fabric she bought from the Maltings, which looked good.
Wilma was doing her Dresden Plates.
ChrisJ sewed row 8 of her triangles together.
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Saturday 6 February 2010
Breakaways 3rd Feb
A busy evening, though some members were missing – hope everyone has now got over their various illnesses and that we will be able to see you next week!
Jane sent a scrap box along with her dh who had a committee meeting. Lucky chap got to take the remains home, too. Seriously, he has been very supportive of us – thanks, Kevin! :) So most members present dived into said box brandishing scissors and cutting up 5” squares or triangles for pyramid quilts to come – should have taken a picture of it, really, but I didn’t think of it at the time. We exchanged stories of what we’d bought at the Ardingly show (or not – some were more restrained; sadly I wasn’t one of them) and how much we had enjoyed ourselves. It is a lovely show when not a squeeze, but I appreciate, not necessarily good for traders.
Anyhow, to kick off, some pics of Chris’s pyramids which she is now putting together
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Colours are a bit off, but they do look great, don’t they?
Next are Lesley’s Stars 
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Linda has decided to make her quilt bigger and was muttering about sewing in the tails in the areas she has already quilted. I showed her the trick Jane showed me but I’m blowed if I can find a tutorial on the ‘net – must be using the wrong terminology. Basically you thread a needle using a doubled piece of cotton thread so on one side of the eye is a loop and the other side has 2 tails. The thread you want to bury goes through the loop, needle into fabric, bring it out wherever you like. The thread will travel through the fabric away from where you stopped and pop up where you can cut it. So far I haven’t had any come back to bite or unravel and it does save an awful lot of time.
And another thing – Jane has a wicked sense of humour and used to write stories. I think she ought to write some more, but on her rather old website here are some to amuse you… Jane Andreoli and her newer site is here Jane's quilts but they only give you a flavour of what she does. I guess she’s been too busy managing Denmead Community Centre and making more pictures……
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