Handbag and camera case

Hi, completed last quilt for month yesterday - so today got my bag stuff loaded up to quilt.

This is the front flap and book pocket for the back.


This is my new camera case - so I can carry it around at all times in my new bag! Not that it matches the bag - but never mind, variety is the spice of life.

This is the body of the bag and what will be flying geese down the sides - if I can get them to line up properly.

Quilt it tomorrow - show the result then.

Reverse Sewing!

Hi, yesterday was a learning experience. That is positive speak for - my clever idea did not come off so I had to try something else. I went back to tradition and cross hatched the embroidered panel in the quilt I was working on. Great it worked - looks pretty good. Cross hatch is hard, time consuming and a pain. Now I had to go back to the other embroidered panel and unpick all the quilting done there. Agh - one and a half hours later - phew done.
Could not face tackling cross hatch after that - so I left it until this morning - when I did it - fine all done. I do not enjoy thinking what to do in embroidered panels. Any ideas anyone?

For me - I am working on a bag - a handbag to beat all others for practicality, looks and it will have everything. Including a book pocket so I can borrow my son's books and take them out with me for a coffee. He is very fussy about his books - there are rules if you want to borrow them. My books all look very well used indeed.

Quilts of 2009

Thought I would try and post pictures of quilts that featured in 2009, both at shows and that I completed. Now I need to find out how to put up photos!






































This would be a highlight - I had this quilt "The Warrior" accepted for symposium 2009 in Wellington. It also was awarded a merit in the Art Quilt section. Though I completed this two years ago, and it was made in stages, the piecing first then the quilting and then the figure added, I still love it. After symposium I sent it to the World Quilt Show in the USA. I got some nice judges comments.

























This quilt - The Murphy Quilt - was made for friends, and won best professional bed quilt at Calico Christmas in 2008, last year I entered it in the NANZQ show at Hamilton and it won best Machine Quilting.



















Sorry should have rotated this first - oops. This was a small wallhanging also at Hamilton, called Flax in flower, and featuring photos printed onto fabric in my inkjet printer. It was made for a Canada/NZ challenge and the fabrics were very interesting.


















This wallhanging was made in one step - loading up a quilt sandwich onto my long arm machine, making the picture with snippets of material added, then triangles, threads - then a layer of water soluble flim, it was quilted, the blue shapes added over the top and quilted down. then the whole thing was soaked to remove the water soluble. It was great fun to make.

Ok there will have to be a 2009 part two! Work is calling.

First blog online!

I realised a need to have a "presence" on the web, so people can see what I do, check on what I am up to and if I am doing classes, see samples etc.

I am very new at all this - so we will see how it goes.