she said: "Congrats on 200 posts! I have destashed many times, but I still have five metres of peachy pinky silk. It's more salmon-- or is it -- eek. Lovely fabric, too expensive to throw away, but the colour is the worst in the world on my skin. Need to make someone else happy with it!"
Actually, this is fate because Annie organised the vintage sheet swap and I think, deserves some extra vintage goodness, all for herself!
Congrats Annie - I shall post it all out to you awfully soon!
To celebrate my 200th post which is about to arrive I would like to show you some goodies from my overwhelming stash of bits and bobs, which I would love love love to give to someone.
Some fat quarters of vintage fabric - all cotton, all pre-loved, not sure how many yet, lets see how generous I feel at the time - you could get lucky!
Some applique packs that have not be opened by moi, so I hope someone else will use them;
Last but not least: some charm squares of Moda's Woodland Bloom - very pretty pink, raspberry, teal and grass green colours - super duper cute!
What I would like to know from you guys is what is in your stash that you once loved but could not see yourself using again - and maybe could give away?
Comment here and I will do the random generator thingy by the close of business (ie when I go to bed) Sunday 2nd November. It's a quickie, but a goodie! Of course, All Are Welcome!
Inspired by this by Oh Fransson I want one too! Using some of the vintage sheet stash, I have started my own ziggy-zaggy quilt. I sort-of just started without any planning and so I have this row which won't be able to be blended into another zig-zag, because I used up all of these fabrics!
Dash it all!
I do love purple and green though, so I will probably put in at the end or something, somehow.
Another sneaky peak of my DQS5 - oh, boy, this is certainly a work-in-progress! Again, i sortov followed a pattern - but it didn't work ie it made it far too big for a Doll quilt, and I thought I was being so clever and just wing it!....no good!.....so....change and change again - and that's okay!
This is post 198 - next post I will show you some goodies JUST FOR YOU!
This is a little sample of my chosen ones for DQS5 - any doll quilt sleuths out there take a guess at who it is for?
My hand-quilting class was really nice! Large group of women all chatty and serious about our obsessions/hobbies listened to Jennie discuss her likes and dislikes re quilting. She was very easy to listen to; very approachable and didn't seem to mind the many questions (particularly from me!) The other women at the table seemed to have done hand-quilting before! They were so good! I need lots of practice and my doll quilt is perfect for that - sorry recipient!
I liked Jennie's laidback style of teaching and she was generous to emphasise that people could go to any quilt shop to get supplies (even though we were sitting in hers!), that we could do many styles of technique (not just the one she uses) and that what worked for us, was the right way! We got to practice on different squares of quilting with different batting as well as a quilting hoop - most if not all disliked the hoop but I found it stabilised the piece for me, which I liked.
This is yet to be proved.
I also particularly liked the HUGE range of Perle thread in different thread thicknesses - other shops have an 'inth' of Amitie's range - there were probably one hundred shades - dis is gude!
I was given this lovely award from Claire at Matching Pegs - My First Award! Claire has a lovely blog about her sewing projects and her gorgeous kids and she's a Melbournian! I love her banner - that lined pegbox is to die for! I can't say having to match my pegs on the clothes line is something that I strive to do, but if Claire hadn't given this award to me, I would be giving it to her!
The "Proximidade" or "Friendship around the World" award is for blogs that are special in some way and extend the hand of friendship around the world. All I have to do is pass this on to eight of my favourite blogs, and ask that they do the same. I've picked eight (minus two, just because I am lazy) random blogs from my long long list of blogs I read
Thanks everyone for being interesting and fun to read - and for keeping me at this puta for far too long - I actually get neckache from using the mouse for too long -
this blogging is killing me slowly! Hehe.
That will do today!
Oops Forgot - did I mention a giveaway?
My 200th postday is not far away, in fact I'm up to 192 I think - pressie time!
I have booked myself in to Amitie's Hand Quilting class - I want to learn how to do that lovely Perle Thread Quilting - Material Obsession gals do it all the time (see below) - and I love the idea.
Probably too that I really and truly don't like machine quilting -that oh so permanent stitch on my hard-worked pieces; the arm and hand ache as I haul the quilt to and fro; the fear of puckering! I think I kinda just like making the tops and then I like do the binding bit - the bit inbetween is kind a hassle to me, big sigh.
I'm going This Thursday 7.30pm - anyone want to join me?
Well, I do have several, but Top of the Pops is '50 First Dates'.
I first saw this movie by absolute accident. I had organised a get-together with Kinder mums to go see a totally different movie one day; well, no-body but me turned up and then the cinema had cancelled the movie.
What else was there? '50 First Dates'; yeah, never heard of it, but I have the time, why not! Well I had never laughed and cried so much in a public cinema before - I was hooked!
It is not deep and meaningful, not terribly realistic, quite silly but OMG - it makes me laugh out loud every single time I watch it (and I have watched it a lot!) - I laugh all the way through, cry, and sing along with the music, every time.
I love the characters; not just the main ones: Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, but every single one in the whole film! They are all funny, unique, quirky.
The stunning Hawaiian scenery, the 'island' music, and the natural chemistry between the two main actors allows them to play their scenes with such ease and realism.
The most beautiful rendition of a most loved song is 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow'by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
Do yourself a favour - and watch it - it won't solve world crises, but it will brighten up your day
I Promise!
Thanks to Hokey for the theme for this week - I too love The Darjeeling Limited! I have thoughts of making a quilt based on this film - all lovely aquas, turquoise, and orange!
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