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Rebecca Nevard wrote a new post, N.S.F.W. (Not Sewn For Weeks) Strike A Pose 6 years, 6 months ago
Hey all
I know, I know it has been Months since I last blogged. What can I say; my Blogging Tag N.S.F.W. is kinda accurate. Sewing has taken a bit of a back burner recently.
When I saw there was a bloggers mini…
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Corinne Curtis recommended the post Retreat Virgin 6 years, 6 months ago
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Jane Galley wrote a new post, Under Pressure 6 years, 6 months ago
Until this challenge, I’d never really taken the time to stop and analyse song lyrics. I just sang the songs and enjoyed the music and where Queen is involved, I just love it. Although Bohemian Rhapsody has to be o…
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What an amazing and inventive interpretation. Well done Jane!
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Thank you Teresa, I enjoyed the challenge
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That was certainty a challenge, and you fulfilled it magnificently.
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thank you Maggie
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Very cleve interpretation. I like the slashed ‘love’ opening up to show the people. Don;t know what I would have done to this song….but I really like your way.
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Thank you Sue. It is difficult to know what to do sometimes, I kept thinking of other ways to do it
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Very challenging Jane…well done x
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Thank you Lyn x
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, A quilting journey 6 years, 6 months ago
Ok, so its not for all of us patchworkers and quilters – I get that – but ever since I started quilting I have really enjoyed the piecing but not happy with my quilting efforts. Tugging large quilts through a smal…
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That’s my ultimate dream, glad you are enjoying it
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Such a lovely progression. My ultimate dream, too. I love those giant circles. Inspiring!
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Wow…lucky you..x
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A lovely description of perseverance. Enjoy.
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Jane Galley and
Ami Richards are now friends 6 years, 6 months ago
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, The First Quilter I Ever Knew 6 years, 6 months ago
We asked Margaret Attfield, who won the final Janome M100 QDC given away this year about her quilting journey .. in her own words:
I think my quilting journey really began with fashion. From a very early age, I…
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Lovely memories and story and you were not the only baby to be left outside a shop in their pram. I was left outside the International Food Store in Horley in a brand new Silver Cross pram one afternoon. She only remembered when my father came home from work in the evening & they both walked a mile into town to hopefully retrieve me. In my mother’s defence I had only been adopted a few days before so having a new baby could easily be forgotten, unlike a birth mother who had carried and given birth to a child. I was still there in my pram luckily, but crying with gusto because I was hungry. I learnt to sew with my mother on a Singer Treadle machine and then in the late 1960’s she got a green Bernina. I had a Sindy and a Tressy doll so every time she made me a new dress they got one too from the off cuts. I did not get my own sewing machine until the 1970’s when I left home and used it to make curtains, cushions & clothes.
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That is a lovely story. I take my hat off to your mum; those dolls are so fiddly!
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Great blog Margaret…first of many!
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Thank, Lyn!
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Gosh, your Blog brings back memories! I was, obviously, not the only one to leave a new baby outside the shops!! -only be to safely ‘rescued’ half an hour later. Your account of learning to sew at your Mum’s side was like me too but it was my Nan and not my Mum. Thank you for sharing Margaret. xx
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Thank you Sue.
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Corinne Curtis wrote a new post, Good enough to give? 6 years, 6 months ago
There is something very special about putting a lot of time and creativity into making a quilt and then passing the finished quilt on to its new owner. When we make for family or friends, we want out quilts to be the…
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This is really thoughtful. I often see people say they don’t like it so they will pass it on. Excellent advice.
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Juliet Nice wrote a new post, What colour is your Christmas? 6 years, 6 months ago
Christmas is traditionally red and green, I’m sure we all remember having a green tree and the tree lights with flower covers that had to be checked every year for that one bulb that died and stopped the whole t…
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Very thought provoking! There are some lovely fabrics there, they got me thinking….? Do I go up to raid my stash for the lovely red panel I have, or do I pray my other half doesn’t have a bright idea and decorate the house while I am out? Hnhmmm,….
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Chris Franses wrote a new post, Doing a Runner 6 years, 6 months ago
It’s that time of year again – Christmas is looming, presents still to be bought/made, decorations to be found in the loft, rooms tidied away ready for visiting relatives and seemingly vast quantities of food to be…
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Super! What a lot of lovely runners! I too have a round table-what about doing a cruciform one?
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Guess what I’m making too? One down one to go … shush – don’t tell the family!
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Lyn Butler wrote a new post, Guess the song? 6 years, 6 months ago
My song title goes back to the 60s…here are a few teasers from my quilt…can you guess what it is?…
Guessed it yet?….Here is the full quilt…
This was written by Lennon an…
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Wow! Great idea Lyn! And such a neat quilt. Didn’t know that about Penny Lane and can’t believe Paul McCartney is 78!
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Thanks Ruth x
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Double A side with “Strawberry fields for ever” ?
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I guessed it too. Very clever Lyn. Beautifully sewn.
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Sparkles, the penny, the street sign, just fabulous, as we said in 1963
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Sharon Reid wrote a new post, Back to 1967 – Pop Pickers 6 years, 6 months ago
It didn’t take me long to put a ‘yes please’ into the shout out for people to interpret a song title for a Christmas feature on the web pages!! Fingers crossed it would be a good one that I could at least inter…
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Another brilliant song title quilt…well done x
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I just loved this! I was a teenager when it came out and loved the soaring sounds. And your interpretation is just wonderful. Rumpled linen and tired suits of armour in a quilt. I did not know there was a story behind the title-that’s the internet for you!
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It was a good job it was mentioned as I hadn’t even thought to look up the story behind it and double lucky in that my sheets theme matched the story!
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Fantastic – great quilt and I love the upcycled fabrics for £3.00. What a bargain.
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I was dead chuffed at finding the fabric as they fitted well with how I wanted it to look!
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another soundtrack of my childhood-I loved this song, great interpretation
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Thank you Jane, it was fun to do although I was left humming the song for a very long time!
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I love this song! Great interpretation, loved the messy bed bit…lol You did well with the fabrics for £3 too. Thanks for the reminder…
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Thanks Sue, I was lucky that they had a piece of clothing for each element of the song I wanted to interpret!
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Jane Galley and
Judith Clarke are now friends 6 years, 6 months ago
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, The Grenfell Quilt Hanging 6 years, 6 months ago
Many of you will recall the incredible events at Grenfell, and the quilts that were created in such a short time to help those who suffered. But life and events continue and Tuesday and the community group she is w…
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What a very poignant and sensitive piece about a tragedy we all felt and a community we all belong to. And when people feel unheard, as so many do,, a really powerful reminder that we are stronger when we are together.
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Maggie – this is true and is wonderful the way quilting reaches out and engages with so many. I hope we can show the completed project when it reaches that stage too.
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Sylvia Thank you for featuring our Quilt in this wonderful site. Sharing our story & supporting our aim to bring more awareness to our cause is much appreciated
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Lyn Butler recommended the post Block Drive 6 years, 6 months ago
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Sue Burford wrote a new post, Lay Lady Lay – Bob Dylan 1969 6 years, 6 months ago
1969 was ‘My’ year.
‘Lay Lady Lay’ was written by Bob Dylan and recorded on Valentines Day, 14th February 1969. It hit the Charts in the July and reached No 5 in the UK. In the September I was 21 and a couple…
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Brilliant!
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Brilliant, what a great idea. You’ve set the bar high. Well done. Look forward to the rest .
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Love it!
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Great song and lovely quilt.
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You haven’t half made me laugh Sue! Not sure Bob Dylon in his wildest dreams could every have predicted this . Wonderful!
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Excellent play on words!!!! Glad I’ve submitted mine already or I’d have real angst.
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Brilliant!
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i like your use of intense. i have the pencils and aloe gel, I need to be brave an go for it. very cute take on the song!
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Denise Inkson wrote a new post, The Cheap Procrastinator – Cannot Math 6 years, 6 months ago
Not everyone is good at math, myself included. Today I find myself working on a project. It is to be a group quilt and hopefully will be displayed under the group’s category of the 2020 Festival of Quilts s…
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I love this, I find it hard to work out the maths, I like to grow it organically and usually end up laying out the blocks to see how they fit. Great idea to use masking tape and have blocks sized templates made up
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I am glad it has given you inspiration. I often rely on the visual to help with things.
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, Bodacious Blooms – a free pattern download from Freespirit 6 years, 6 months ago
Not sure if the fabrics are available in the UK that are used in this pattern from FreeSpirit, but it would make a great quilt whatever fabrics you choose. It’s not as difficult as it might at first seem – break i…
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Sylvia Priest – webmaster and quilter wrote a new post, Bloggers on Retreat 6 years, 6 months ago
Once a year the Bloggers from this very website gather in a fabulously large room and sew. There may be the odd bottle of Gin creeping in, but essentially we sew, from when we arrive at around noon on Friday u…
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Lyn Butler wrote a new post, Block Drive 6 years, 6 months ago
I recently participated in a block drive for Q4CL – the charity working with the Gold from the Stone Foundation. Many of you will already know this charity provides careleavers with a dinner at Christmas, and Q…
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Helen Kent wrote a new post, Gütermann Creativ Bulky Lock 80 6 years, 6 months ago
Product Review – Gütermann Creativ Bulky Lock 80 – Variegated purple (9944), 1000m (1094 yds)
The package arrived, was it something else for the magazine? No, this one was for me to try out. I do a little…
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6 years, 6 months ago
Love it. Such an evocative song too.
6 years, 6 months ago
thanks Maggie. I really enjoyed making this one!
6 years, 5 months ago
Nice read Rebecca… well done
5 years, 11 months ago
Beautiful. Well done. Merry Xmas and a happy new year.