Farnham

A few pics :

This was part of a mouthwatering quilt.  A final piece and oh, I covet it!  The lady who made it (and whose name I have forgotten, sorry - email me if it was you)- was inspired by Tivaevae quilts.  It was luscious.

This one

I liked because it's a positive/negative and at least one is on my todo list.  Pauline was quite interested in this one, too...

This one was nice and simple but very effective:

 and these 2 were placemat sized.  The blue and white was my choice and Pauline liked the other one

Farnham Maltings

Another pictureless post.  Well, I did take a couple of pictures but they were just a detail to remind me, sort of picture.

5 of us went and met 2 others at the Maltings - well I didn't actually see Libby, but she was there because she took Jane.  I did briefly meet Kate North, (courtesy of Jane Andreoli) who I once (or several times) bought a lot of books from and also seemed to win a few things at one stage when she was doing giveaways.  She was also instrumental in my acquiring a treadle machine.  Met another ex-member of the group most of used to belong to and had news of someone else.  And so it goes...  the place was packed and next year we will probably go later; don't know why we went so early.

I had taken a top with me to Antique Angel as I needed more fabric but they hadn't brought any of those lines with them, it being a 'sale', so the ladies said to telephone and discuss.  Hope I will be able to get hold of them before they close one evening this week.

Had a good look around at the exhibition upstairs but as it was lunchtime most demonstrators were having their lunch and not about.  We didn't win anything in the raffle in the afternoon, either.  I think the ladies read out just about every number that skirted our tickets, but not ours, LOL.  Still it was good fun and I did get some solids, or near solids, for my QU class. Once I found a stall with those, I just read out my list and the kind gent said  yea or nay, so it was quite a painless way to shop!  The trouble with going to the Maltings with a shopping list is that you don't often get what you want and one of the things I was after, and didn't get was fusible vilene.  Hope I can get some by next weekend from somewhere not too far away, but I finish late too much at the moment to be able to get into town.


Before I forget to mention it, and I did intend to earlier on - I bought Bren a calendar from The Book Depository and when she opened it, the stand was broken.  I had a short correspondence with the Customer Service people who refunded my money promptly  - stand up calendar being no good if it doesn't stand but also said we could keep the calendar - the pics are nice and are fine, it was just the stand. I don't suppose it was worth posting back if they would then have had to pay my postage, but still, it was a nice gesture. I was impressed with the promptness of their response and the speed of the refund.  I don't know if they were working from home as it was during that snowy period and I really wasn't expecting to hear from anyone for a while.  So, I was really pleased, although I use the company anyway and will continue to do so.

Tomorrow night, feltmaking and I will take my camera, because I have a couple of books for Bren and Janine will be bringing some from Germany. Wonder if we will actually make any felt?

Quilt University

Well, what with all the snow etc I had decided to do an online course with Quilt University; booked and paid for it and then we all went back to work.  Typical LOL.

The course is with Dena Crain and is called Crystal Quilts.  It's more a design course and very interesting. 

Gosh I am learning a lot - the particular way these quilts are designed, and then all the taking of photos (straight is not my strong point) and manipulating them a little - probably very simple, but not something I've done before, and dh and ds6 both helping out as best they could with that bit. It is really hard to find the time at the moment, but the beauty of these courses is that you print off all the lessons and anything else relevant, the classes stay open a little longer than the course, and you can keep on doing it in your own time.  There is a discussion board as well, just for each course and that's quite interesting.  Ladies from all over the world are on this one - I don't think any men have surfaced.

And for me, because I'm reading, looking and doing, rather than just being told, I think things are more likely to stay in my poor little noddle.

Anyhow, this is a very interesting experience and one I  will be able  to repeat because......QU are having a weekly draw as this year it's their 10th Birthday and my name came up for the first drawing! So this set of classes are free! How wonderful is that?  It was like Christmas!  Lots of exclamation marks, I know, but it's so exciting :)

I don't have everything on the supply list, but am going to Farnham Maltings on Sunday with a shopping list and hopefully I will be able to get some of the things I will need. Farnham Maltings  is well, I don't know what it is, really, because I only ever see it at the fabric sale we are going to.  There are lots of rooms of varying sizes and the Maltings houses all sorts of theatre, exhibitions and other stuff.  This fabric sale is very popular; people come in coaches and it is horrendously busy as a rule.  Lots of traders, fabric is usually cheaper and there are quilts and exhibitions from local groups on show as well, upstairs.  So it should be a good day; there will be 5 members of the Breakaway Quilters  in all and I'm so glad the roads are mostly clear now, 'cos I'm driving!