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You came here from a link on someone else's blog. Please write to them and let them know they need to update their links New blog will be found here, lots of good quilty stuff to trawl through.And if links don't work for you go to http://quiltfeather.blogspot.com/

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My new blog is at Feather on a Wire (an appropriate name after having my wings clipped, grin)Please alter your feeds or lists (or whatever they are called)I shall leave this list as it is for continuity.

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I tried to remove comments which pertained to members of my family. Unfortunately one cannot do this without a censorship notice appearing. Just what I don't want. I feel very badly about my own censorship let alone yours. So to remove references to family members, I have had to remove ALL comments.At the moment, I don't feel like blogging under such constraints. I may or may not continue to blog

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My DH (unnamed) has declared I should not mention him, his work or my DD in this blog.I think I have removed everything. I disagree very strongly. I cannot see harmony returning here for a very long while.I think I have censored out all references but if you find one, please let me know.Book burning is the comparison which comes to mind.Like a bird on a wire...I have tried in my way to be free

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Jane Western asked for more pictures of the indigo quilt in the post about using a hoop under the quilt.I made two using these 3 Cats fabrics. Sometimes I make quilts that are real no brainers. They're not ugly quilts, just ones which go together fairly quickly, need not a lot of thought and little creative energy. I don't fuss about points, or the quality of the quilting too much.These two were

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QuiltPatsy Thompson left a comment to ' Please hurry up and make this thing and post the pictures because I can't wait to see it!!' . No pressure there then (grin). Anyway because of the premiere I didn't have to cook or anything last night so I could get on with it a bit. This is the markings I started off with. Just a line with the over and unders marked on it. It's quite feint, you'll probably

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I found this on Carol Clasper's blog and couldn't resist. Strangely I ended up having the same result as her.....Your Dominant Thinking Style: ExploringYou thrive on the unknown and unpredictable. Novelty is your middle name.You are a challenger. You tend to challenge common assumptions and beliefs.An expert inventor and problem solver, you approach everything from new angles.You show people how

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This is CAD 2000 (or was it 2001?). Anyway it was the first really serious quilt I made. It's 90" square and heavily quilted with trapunto in the points. CAD is Children's Aid Direct and I got involved with them after organizing quilts for the Kosovo crisis. Someone told me raffle quilts make far more money if they are bright. As you see I took this advice on board whole heartedly (grin). I had

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I've been asked what machine and am I using a frame.Today I'm using a Bernina Aurora 440, but I'm not using the stitch regulator. I find it too slow. Sometimes I use a Bernina 1260. I don't use any type of frame. I normally have the inner ring of a wooden 8" embroidery hoop under the quilt. (My apologies to those on BQL and Cyberquilters who have already seen these photos. ) I never push the

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Sinclair's just here as I have no relevant photos for today's post. This was about ten minutes after the new sofa arrived and he took possession as only a cat can (grin)I'm positively glowing from the lovely things Patsy Thompson has said on her blog. Thank you if you are reading this, it's very lovely to hear such things from a wonderful quilter.In her post she suggests you cruise webrings. It

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I outlined the feather with the curlicues as I felt whilst I liked the shapes, it didn't have enough impact. Outlining just outside the plume seems to sort this out. It might have looked even better with another colour. The fabric is a mat black not the grey it appears in the photo. The thread is very definitely a pure yellow but in photos and in life it appears green.This has caused a problem in

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My two favourite things about quilting are learning and the design process and yesterday I managed to fit both in.As usual I did a tension piece first, this didn't look too bad until I saw the back and there were a couple of loops and broken thread on the top.See what I mean? But I got this sorted and then started to play.The first lesson was to do organic feathers with no spine and only the

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On BQL there was a post about the Quilt Police in our heads.The post referred to an old unfinished project and how she was now not happy with her work at that time. This made me remember one of my early appliqué projects. In my head the work was absolutely dreadful. The post made me out them out and re-look at them. Actually they're not too bad workmanship wise. They are not anything like

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This is the little wholecloth so far. It's about 14" X 10". I need to decide what to do as a filler which will be scaled down small enough and still look good. I hadn't realized how difficult it would be to do such tiny feathers. Some of the little lobes of the feathers are a quarter the size of my little fingernail.And I've finished the background on this one. Today I'll wash it to remove my

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Just thought I'd share some lovely Victorian prints with you from one of my antique quilts. Here's a quilt where she wasn't concerned about points. Some people think this adds to their charm. I love the stripe with navy, red, cream and blue and the pink is gorgeous.Last year there was a fabulous reproduction range of turkey red out there. There are still one or two bits around. I so wish I'd

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Yesterday I had been blogging for 4 weeks. I put a site meter up on the 5th of June and this morning found I had over 1,000 visits already. This is lovely, it means I'm not talking to myself (I'm sure all you long term bloggers know this feeling).I've had visits from the expected quilting countries, the USA, UK, Canada, Australia and NZ. I've been delighted to find visitors from such diverse

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This is on one of the inherited bits of furniture. Wouldn't it look great repeated round a border? Feel free to use this.And this one is from the same dresser.Sorry about the dust, photos are cruel, it really doesn't look this bad in reality.All this sort of stuff is considered 'brown furniture' by the trade and is definitely not in fashion. If I had a barn I would buy it all up and store it

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Funny how the St Anthony thing works?!?They were on the grass near where I had been cleaning out the down pipe.

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In an online group I belong to the question 'Do you make quilts for show?' came up.A lot of people felt their work wasn't good enough. I know that feeling and for a very long time my quilts weren't good enough. I was ashamed of my mistakes, my quilting, my points not meeting etc etc. What was I doing producing stuff that I was ashamed to have scrutinized?Two things changed my attitude to my

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Almost every Monday I make chicken stock.I take off all the meat off the carcass, add it to some water, the left over gravy, vegetables and stuffing, add an onion or two (leaving the skins on for colour), celery if I have it and any other vegetables which look like they should be used (not tomatoes or parsnips, wrong flavours), a bouquet garni (I used to make my own but Waitrose sell very good

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I really shouldn't be allowed out with my plastic33 spools of YLI Soft Touch, 9 of Bottomline and 1 of Robinson Anton, 5 lovely wooden buttons (1 out of shot is a kangaroo) and some big clips. (I'm going to try and pin baste on my drawing table)This pretty blue print turned out to be something 'I had to have' . Nice to see it is English.As is this one, the colour is more crimson and less

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Receiving the Machine Quilting award (photo taken by Cherie Lumsden's DH, thank you) I now have another Machine Quilting little salver. I don't quite know what to do with them. I'd hang them up on the wall in the loo if it wouldn't be quite such a problem keeping them clean. I do admit to being proud of winning them so don't want to hide them away.And still haven't found my keys, I have the key

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XXXXX is fretting, he thinks replacement car keys alone will cost over £100, he could be right but they must be in the house somewhere as how else would I have got in the front door?A few weeks ago I lost my mobile phone. I wasn't worried, I knew it would be around somewhere. I had a bad back so couldn't do a lot of searching. After a couple of weeks I checked all the shops I'd been in by the

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Censored of course the new kitchen radio turning itself on full blast at midnight. I suffer from insomnia anyway so it wasn't a big deal for me.Getting on to the good news, my quilt has been accepted into the World Quilt Show. This is excellent as far as I'm concerned as after reading Ferret's Post and her problems not getting her quilts over the pond, I'm pleased all I have to do is send the

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I've just had a phone call to let me know Peace#1 has won the Machine Quilting Award at the Nation Patchwork Championship at Sandown.I'm very pleased this is always the award I want to win if I can.BTW this photo is how it hung at the Festival of Quilts last year. The creases show as does the wobble at the bottom.

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When I quilt I always have a small piece with the same fabric, batting and backing as the quilt I'm working on. I use it to get my tension right in the first instance, then as a warm up piece to get my hands and eye in when I've been away from the machine overnight or for a day or two and I also use it for a little while each time I oil the machine. I need to know that if I have over oiled the

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Peace#1 has gone to Sandown, National Patchwork Championships. With Colin's help I hung it before I left to check it hangs perfectly. It does, well it did this morning, I'll see when I get there if it does still. It would be lovely if it wins something, but I'll be seriously happy if it just doesn't get criticized for not hanging well. After the Festival of Quilts I found out it had been folded

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Just to show not all my quilts are something to be proud of. This is the back which looked quite good until I washed it. The yellow then turned a murky greenish greyish colour of yellow. The stippling wasn't fine enough to really put a red veil over the quilt and quite frankly the quilting wasn't too hot either. I knew the tension wasn't right and just kept ploughing on. Some how I felt it 'would

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This is a photomosaic done of close up of one of my quilts. Click on it to see how clever this is. I've wasted so much time today playing with this, be warned.....Here is the photo before treatment,

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This is a sneak preview as this is to be entered in a competition. The photo is of about 6" of the little quilt. The whole thing is only 24" square. The echo type background quilting was the first time I've played with this. I love it and will use it again. Perhaps it would be good to give the impression of one of those linen 18th century quilts.If you click on the photo it will show it up about

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The camera has arrived but it runs on different memory cards than the ones I own so hopefully tomorrow I can play with it.

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Watching the lunchtime news I see how lucky we were last night not to have been flooded. I wonder if the extra pumping station built by Thames water has done it's thing or whether we just didn't get as much rain here last night at Toad Hall.I've included this photo of my helper, Sinclair who last year decided that my Nostalgia quilt was just the one he wanted to get involved with. You can see the

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For my sins, I've just ordered an Olympus SP510. I can only hope I've done the right thing. It works in low light conditions, it has 10 X optical zoom weighs only 300gms (without battery and card) and takes AA batteries. The guy I was speaking to thought it absurd to have AA batteries as part of my criteria, but I got caught out before with running out of battery charge and having no way to

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My apologies. There's not a lot worse than checking blogs only to find there is no new post. I promise to try harder in future.My little quilt is coming along nicely now I've decided to use YLI Soft Touch. Many thanks to The Tabby Cat who got the thread to me in less than 24 hours. NAYY. Bad news is that I've heard YLI are discontinuing doing the 1,000 yard mini cones except in the basic colours

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When my daughter was about 4, I was driving round a particularly nasty round about when she asked,"Did you buy me Mummy?".Did I buy you what darling?"Did you buy ME?"Buy you what darling?"Did you buy me?"It clicked.No darling, I made you."Oh goody, I like all the things you make"A conversation I shall treasure forever.

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I've twenty or so of these blocks done about 5 or more years ago. I don't know what to do with them. I tried taking photos of each block individually and then the plan was to print them out and play with various ideas. The camera kept compensating for balance and the colours went so far off what they really are that this didn't work at all. (BTW is there a way I can get blogger to spell check in

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Today I woke up after having 8 hours of delicious sleep. I felt great, I'd shaken the cold off and then just three hours later I was back to square one (grrrrr).XXXXXX my XXXXXXX always says I send myself backward by doing too much as soon as I feel a little better. I'd barely done anything so bang goes his theory but to keep peace and harmony I promised to do nothing today. Well almost

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It took all yesterday evening and most of this morning but it's done.On a more cheerful note, even my garden shed looks good on a cloudy day in June. This is the year of the foxglove. Last year I left one spire after the flowers had died and waved it all over the garden, they've come up in all the beds but the best are in a shade bed. Unfortunately today is the day my camera has decided to die

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I ended up with the top thread tension at very nearly zero and the bobbin quite tight. (It wasn't going to drop easily like it normally does when you test it).This worked, lovely even stitches with perfect tension top and bottom. Played for a while on my test sample piece then moved over to the quilt. And it worked, then it didn't. I stopped reloaded, did a bit on the sample, went back over to

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Some days things just don't go well. I don't know if it's because I've a cold or because I've been drawing with a pencil rather than with a needle for a few weeks, or because it's humid or it's just a bad hair day (grin). I tried with Bottom Line in the the top and bottom, then I tried changing the top thread to 50 Madeira, the to YLI Softtouch. Nothing was playing nicely.Then I tried Bottomline

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I'm trying to use Bottomline Thread in both the bobbin and as a top thread for freemotion quilting. I'm sure I've used it before but this time I've been fiddling with the top and bottom tensions for about an hour, does anyone have a magic formula?Sally

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I rang the company selling them and they put me on to the company they buy from. All they knew is that they import them from China but not how they are made.So a dead end has been reached.

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As far as I know this foot is only available for Berninas and then not every model.It's so much fun to play with though finding suitable things which will fit through the hole can be difficult and then one which don't unravel make it even harder.You can tell I'm new at this blogging business, the photos are in the reverse order I wished and not within the text. I might get better (or not).The top

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^The ruler is a 6" square

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A friend is an interior designer. Ages ago she told me of some commercially available wholecloth quilts, she said they were good. I thought I know she likes machine quilting but she cannot have her 'eye' in properly. This week she told me they were reduced to £39 (about $80) for a kingsize. She has so far used seven of them in various houses she has decorated. I like her taste, so I thought I'd

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Sgt Pepper taught the band to play...I remember it so well, and how wonderful and new. From the cover to the music. Energy.My 18 year old daughter loves it too.

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Why would you design your quilting before you even piece?For me on this particular quilt it makes sense. The feathers have an organic form but still have a common spine on all four corners. They will also be trapuntoed. The trapunto means the quilt must be premarked so I know where to sew my water soluble thread and because each spine must match to add unity to the quilt they must also be drawn

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I'm finding postcards a little hard because they are so small. I do BIG, small to me is 36" square, the format is very restricting. I found with this last lot I did a bit better by cutting a strip 8" by 30 something and working it as a piece with evenly spaced trees, they will then be cut up into postcards. I had the brilliant idea of using the hole punch to cut perfect little circles out of red

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Today was the day for my mammogram. I am so very glad I live in a country where it is free to all women. I'm also grateful that I don't live in a country where the profit motive becomes involved and women have them far more often then necessary and run the extra risks from over exposure to radiation. A friend who has a family history of breast cancer has them far more often but this is just

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I've spent the last few weeks designing feathers, drawing them rubbing them out, starting again and now I'm good. I can draw them well. My only wish now is I'd put in the hours years ago I could have been doing my own thing instead of using stencils of feathers which never really worked to my satisfaction.

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