I have been stitching on my circles travellers blanket- the weather has been right ,cold wet and miserable, so what better to work on and keep you warm at the same time? I want to finish this blanket...
Got home very late last Sunday night after a couple of days in France with my friend Christine Moulin. I went to Paris for the day on Thursday and visited the Musee du Monde Arabe which did not ...
I spent the last four days at the Open European Quilt Championships where I was demonstrating along with several other well known Dutch ( Els van Baarle and Cherilyn Martin, French ( Pascale Br...
Well the tour of France is finished- we saw a lot despite the weather- rain and wind!I hope people had a lovely time....So some reflections from the last 4-5 days.......Roses in the window of t...
Its hard to believe we have already been here for 10 days.... its been a hectic time, seen lots of things and enjoyed many museums and French food and lots of walking.Despite the weather- very cold a...
Ha I have a Certificate III in Micro Business- it was a bit of a slog in the end- the business plan was over 22 pages long- and I already think some of it needs re writing, simply because I hav...
As always thank you for your comments! And your thumbs up for my blog! I have been trying to finish work for exhibition at Quilt Expo en Beaujolais as it had to be in the post earlier this week and a...
My goodness it has been a busy week, and in the middle of it all my favourite uncle passed away- as if the torments of early onset Parkinsons disease was not enough an aggressive leukemia final...
Wish I could share photos of some of the marvellous things I have seen this week- the magnificence of nature and a surprisingly green centre of Australia- but I forgot the chord that connects my came...
I have to make some more sentinelles for Quilt Expo in Beaujolais, where my series will be exhibited in April, as I have more than 10 metres of hanging space. Of course I have been putting off and pu...
In my last post i forgot to post a photo of the fours Teapot and Rosewater Jug panels I have available for sale.Here they are!
The change in the weather from too hot to be funny to cold and wet has me lolling in the doldrums a bit- plus I am supposed to be doing market research fro my Business Plan- and that is dreary. I did...
This really is your last chance to hop on board my tour of France starting 11 April ( there is a land only price for those outside of Australia). Its going to be 19 fab days starting with a taste of ...
I have finished another hand stitched sentinelle and she measures 20 cm x 44 cm. I found this sentinelle difficult to work with simply because she is blue, even though I use blue, is not ...
Well it was a quick trip to Singapore which i thoroughly enjoyed.Thank you to the ladies form the British Club Craft group for inviting me and for your hospitality!Came home to the news of cancelled ...
The results of Breaking All the Rules Workshop with the ladies of the British Club Craft group in Singapore. We had a lot of fun and some lovely work was produced breaking quite a few of the rules o...
I am off to Singapore to teach for a couple of days. It has been a fair while since I have been to Singapore and I am looking forward to having a few free days there (it was too expensive ...
I was hoping the tour to France would go ahead but we have had someone drop out and now its time to cancel or go ahead. So if you were thinking you would like to go at all now is the time to let me k...
Thank you for all the comments on my shearing post, I am glad you enjoyed it- as I said at the beginning of this year i want to celebrate ordinary people more.Well today is the day we celebrate our n...
Life offers all sorts of dilemnas which offer no easy solutions and which sometimes leave you scratching your hear. For example I have finally found a small part-time job as a library assistant- the ...
I have been hand stitching another Travellers Blanket whilst watching the tennis ( after watching Tomic play so well last night a thought passed through my head that maybe I should call this blanket ...
I found myself with some time to kill in Melbourne yesterday so decided that i would pop into the NGV Ian Potter Centre to see if there were any Fred Williams paintings on display. The gallery did no...
I am ready to start really working again, not that i have sat idle, but I went up to my mothers, so that took 3 days out of my week, and I did do some handwork whilst i was there. I did however...
I want to wish everyone who reads my blog a Happy, Safe and Creative 2012! For my part I wish that the troubles in Syria would end and worry about my friends as we can no longer email, I wish t...
Have been back from Europe for a few days now and we spent Christmas at my brothers in Melbourne and am now settling back in at home after having unpacked things ( I brought back some of the things I...
My first image of Venice is the random signs/images we have encountered on the walls of the streets. Some of them have been stencilled al la Banksy style but others have been more seriously exe...
We have been walking and walking around Prague these last three days and yesterday evening installed my quilts at ArteTextile Praha so that is where we will spend the next 3 days. The collaged p...
My catalogue is done, and whilst my inadequate scanning technique ( the pages are A4 size so i can scan only one page at a time) does not do it justice I am really happy with the way it turned out!I ...
Thank you for your positive comments regarding the earth sentinelle- its much appreciated. I think she may be my favourite too-I love the colour and she seems to have a gentle aura.Its been a bit of ...
Here she is! Earth Sentinelle in earth colours (the Australian outback is always depicted in reddish colours) sporting kangaroo paw as her decoration because the shape of the flower is so...
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