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August 26, 2022
Embroidering a seascape from Quilting & Learning

I've finally gone back to TextileArtist.org's stitch club. There are so many new wonderful workshops and never enough time

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November 1, 2020
Making Waves from Celtic Thistle Stitches

 It is reveal day for this quarter's Endeavourers Challenge, this time the theme for the Challenge was "The Sea".

 

I have called my piece "Making Waves", it is made with strips of upcycled denim for the waves with quilting cotton scraps for the island in the distance. 

 

Various denim scraps

 Over the years I have amassed a store of cast-off denim jeans that my sons either grew out of or decided were no longer their style, so I was delighted to have the perfect excuse to dig them out and start cutting into them. 

 

Flock of seagulls rising from the shoreline

 This is the view from my sewing room ...

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November 1, 2019
Twas a dream they'd dreamed from Celtic Thistle Stitches

Today is the next reveal in the Endeavourers Quilt Group, this quarter the theme for our quilts was "Dreams" and it was a bit of a struggle I have to say. My original plan for the challenge was to create a Dreamcatcher but I could not get what I wanted, something transparent and flimsy, to work as a quilt, so with a week to go to the deadline, it was time for a rethink!

Wynken, Blynken and Nod!

Thinking about dreams got me to thinking, naturally, about sleep and then to the rhymes and songs we used as parents, and ...

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