Last year in March I went to Melbourne for the Applique show at Castlemaine. It was a wonderful exhibition and I enjoyed it thoroughly.
Afterwards I went to "Threadbear", the local quilt shop owned by Corliss Searcy. What an experience that was. In spite of owning more fabric, books and patterns than anyone has a right to, I was bedazzled and bought even more. In particular, I saw a quilt called "Beamish Scrapbag". I visited the Beamish Museum in 2010 with my mother and I liked the name so naturally I bought the pattern.
After 18 months of diving in and out of this project I have finally finished the applique centre.
It is about 26" square and is to be surrounded by multitudes of pieced elongated hexagons and tiny quarter square triangles.
The other notable purchase was a book. Publishers are so clever. The best picture in the book is always on the cover. Don't you find that? If I don't like the cover picture I can never find anything appealing inside the cover. On the other hand, so often the best picture is on the cover and the rest of the book is just disappointing. That goes for quilt books and others. My new book is no exception.
It is really just eye candy, or so I thought until I met Pam at the Sydney quilt show . She was wearing a beautiful cardigan she had knitted in a similar pattern. She kindly sent me her pattern and it is on the ever increasing "to-do" list.
One of the reasons it takes so long for me to finish projects is that I am always distracted by other things; many of them patchwork related! For instance, the 3" stars, that are slowing growing in number.
But don't they look cute? I know some of you don't start a project until the current one is finished, but regrettably that just isn't me.
Afterwards I went to "Threadbear", the local quilt shop owned by Corliss Searcy. What an experience that was. In spite of owning more fabric, books and patterns than anyone has a right to, I was bedazzled and bought even more. In particular, I saw a quilt called "Beamish Scrapbag". I visited the Beamish Museum in 2010 with my mother and I liked the name so naturally I bought the pattern.
After 18 months of diving in and out of this project I have finally finished the applique centre.
It is about 26" square and is to be surrounded by multitudes of pieced elongated hexagons and tiny quarter square triangles.
The other notable purchase was a book. Publishers are so clever. The best picture in the book is always on the cover. Don't you find that? If I don't like the cover picture I can never find anything appealing inside the cover. On the other hand, so often the best picture is on the cover and the rest of the book is just disappointing. That goes for quilt books and others. My new book is no exception.
It is really just eye candy, or so I thought until I met Pam at the Sydney quilt show . She was wearing a beautiful cardigan she had knitted in a similar pattern. She kindly sent me her pattern and it is on the ever increasing "to-do" list.
One of the reasons it takes so long for me to finish projects is that I am always distracted by other things; many of them patchwork related! For instance, the 3" stars, that are slowing growing in number.
But don't they look cute? I know some of you don't start a project until the current one is finished, but regrettably that just isn't me.