UFO Update (Sort Of)

So, I'd planned on having a nice update on the current UFO I am trying to finish. Well, on the bright side, the top is now done. I plan on sending it to a shop to be quilted. I have come to the realisation that I will never get any quilts done if I hand quilt them all. So this lap quilt is a nice test run. I did take photo's of it last week, but the light was poor and the colours were way off. I had planned on taking more photos over the weekend, but a combination of over cast skies and a sudden urge to clean (which happens so rarely is should never be put off) and I didn't get it done. Also, I have totally stuffed my neck. No lateral movement at all. So, some sewing done (couldn't do much more than watch tv for two days) and a much cleaners craft room still counts as a win. I hope to have photos in the next couple of days. Might need to bring to work with me to get a day time shot.

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Pink Stone Wrap Bracelet

I made this one for a friends 21st Birthday last week. I think she really liked it. I love the colours and the texture on the stones.

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Blue Beaded Bracelet

This is another one of the bracelets I made on the weekend. It's actually a very easy method to do. But I would recommend using beads no larger than 6mm, as it's gets much harder with bigger beads and doesn't sit quite as well. I gave this one to a friend of mine.

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Beaded Bracelet

So I get easily bored. I found a few tutorials for making beaded bracelets via Pinterst. Here is what I made on the weekend.

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Reversa Work Table Runner

In my continuing nostalgia process, here is another of my old pieces. It's a red and white reversa work, based on a pattern from Plate 44 from Bassees’ “New Modelbuch” of 1568. It's done in long arm cross stitch.

More details are available on my other website.

Reversa Work – a lesser known variety of voided work produced on the Iberian Peninsula. It has many similarities with Assisi work, including stitches and colour choice. Other characteristics include in later periods to the use of yellow as a filling colour and the outlining of patterns in either black or another colour, darker than the filling.

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Old Quilt Revisted - Y2K Quilt

After having a play with Pintrest, I realised that I didn't have a decent photo of my Y2K Quilt. So here it is. It was made as part of a world wide Y2K movement among quilters to commemorate the turn of the Millenium.

It is made up of 2001 individual pieces of fabric. No fabric is repeated (I hope!!). There are also a large number of signature squares from the people I swapped fabric with to make the quilt. To view these, check out some of the individual blocks in detail.

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Bookbinding

A selection of some of the limp bound, hand made books I've made. Also, an excuse to play with the collage feature in Picasa!!

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