Thoughts on copyright

interesting, and easy to read article:
http://www.elefantz.com/2011/12/final-chapter-on-copyright-and.html

Pretty Patchwork Purses

I'm practising making these quick and easy purses; they make great gifts and I'm also making batches of purses for the Tombola at next year's Festival of Quilts.
Check out the zippy blog here: http://zippy-purses.blogspot.co.uk/
There's a link below...

Prizes!

 Highly Commended for "Magic Portals"

 First Small Wallhanging for "Hidden"

Second Traditional Patchwork for "Rattlesnake"

West Country Quilt Show, Day one...

 A good day, by my, this working lark is hard...

Out and about.

There is a lot of hedgerow fruit this autumn; we collected bullace the small green Norfolk plums that are like little greengages, and wild damsons from the lane.

Both are good eating cooked with apples.

On Sunday the weather was good and we took our small cabin cruiser out on the river Ant. We saw Great Crested Grebe, Herons and Cormorants. Terns diving over Barton Broad and Swans - a group of eight gygnets full grown now but still in their brown plumage.

8 swans a-swimming

heron hunting

cormorant drying off

and quite a few people on the river... fishermen, canoeists and sailors.
There was a competition on the broad and sails flying along despite there being little wind along the river.

a whole family canoeing

the river was still you could see the weed and fish

sailors having fun

This is a National Park area so there is no litter, all you see on the river banks are discarded swan feathers! it is beautiful. We had a lovely picnic and came home rejuvenated.

Journal Quilts, May to August

I've finally managed to upload these four Journals to the Yahoo site.
It was much easier than trying to get all four on this page in the correct monthly order!

 These are more experiments in Fine Line Piecing using fine Oakshott cottons.

May Journal

June Journal

July Journal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

August Journal

Recent Work

.. has been mainly samples for the new Quilters Guild Modern Specialist Group Tutor Boxes. an Idea Helen Howes and I have been working on for some time. Small quilt samples, nicely finished, with a copiable worksheet that groups can hire for the cost of the postage rather than hiring in a teacher and paying a small fortune in travelling costs.
Here is an Eccentric Crosses Sample nicely made with a flange binding and matchstick quilting:

Modern Eccentric Crosses

 This is the Modern take on Log cabin great for using narrow scraps.

Modern Negative Space Log Cabin

 Another Notelets, small envelope blocks made with 2 1/2 inch squares.

Envelope block made with small squares

 My current favourite, Interlocking Plus blocks. I like making these...

Modern Plusses

 This is an interesting one, x&+ blocks lots of these appearing in Japanese quilts.

X and Plus blocks

My workspace! the tiny tumblers are my thread savers,

 

 I just stitch another pair between sewing other blocks!