pin cushions received

wow what a beauty thanks Anne O'C from Canberra for another lovely gift..its a pin cushion that fits in very well here..it is very chubby indeed..lol..as we all are..cheers Anne I love it.xx

cocky

who's that looking at me..is that you bo bo..makes it hard to type with that sitting on ya shoulder..or worse still the key board..I inherited this bird from Waynes mum when she had a stroke 18 months ago..bloody thing used to hiss at me,(the bird not waynes mum) she had hand raised it from a baby..its 37 yrs old,plucked all its feathers out..from bordem I believe..it just loves me to pieces, took me a while to get confident with it..one bite on the neck and it could kill..the beak is very sharp and very strong..but she loves to snuggle in and have a scratch, still hisses and bites everyone else..funny old bird booey..it says to me " give us a kiss"..and puts its beak on my lips..lol.. talks none stop while your trying to have a conversation with the humans..dont know who it takes after..lol..

Pin Cushion number 3

This is my beaudiful butterfly pin cushion that winged its way up from Tasmania..thank you Wendy it will be treausred forever..Wendy did stick magnets on the back of the wings a great idea..only one problem my current machine is plastic..nevermind its still prettiful..cheers Pat

closeup of 21st quilt quilted with black thread to be boiund in black..

This is the 21st quilt quilted with panto called "featheration" I think thats it..I really like this panto and have mentally ... quilted it onto some velvet ready to bling and paint maybe make into a shawl..my how my mind wanders..nice fringe..lol..watch this space..

This picture captures how the polar fleece was joined..I think I should have turned one piece it seems to be two different colours now that its finished..note to self have the nap going the same direction..it is very drk green..one inch seam then opened and held flat with iron on violene stabaliser..it did make the stitching hard threw the middle but atleast its flat, not a big lump that the small seam would have produced.

This is a quilt I am making as a commission for a 21st birthday present it is on the machine at present and having a panto called featheration??put on it..lovely pattern and it has cotton wadding and dark green polar fleece backing..I joined the backing and then decided the seam was too small and the wide selvage was still visible so I joined it again 1" seam opened it and ironed on interfacing to hold it flat and open..less of a bump in the backing to quilt over..it is still on the machine will post another pic when its finished..I just love these simple easy quilts and am running a class on the 16th of October..for beginners..hope they enjoy it too..I bought the lovely border fabric on the way to Bungendore at Goulbourne,Patch on Bourke..lovely shop..lots of cheap fabric aswell as normal priced stuff..lots of $10 a meter bolts..I love those prices..cheers Pat

this is a picture of my son David playing guitar, locks like a pub ay!!..its downstairs at our place a room we call the dungeon, got a bar, tv plenty of room for the band to practice..slow combustion fire, nice room an add on that brother Tony built for us about 15 years ago..Thanks Tone..xx

geeze I dont know whats going on with this blog, the pictures are appearing as computer gobbildy gook..then when you publish it comes out as the right thing..all a bit weird..hopefully this is a picture of the yellow brooch I made to wear to mittagong conference so people could ID each other from the yahoo group..I was a lot younger then and a bit shyer so i only put it on at the dinner sat night..lol..I didnt get a prize cause the judges never saw it..cant help myself I am extreme..cheers Pat
it was about 12 inches long and 4 inches wide..lol..

These are the two pin cushions I have made for our swap on the longarm quilters group..hope Anne O'C and Wendy like them..I love these fiddly little things to make just to keep the idle hands busy..got a few books from the library last night..one free motion crotchet and the other a doll face construction book by Patti Culea..I am looking forward to making my first doll...got everything I need except more hours in the day..now that I am sleeping very well again I dont have those insomniac hours I used to create..lol.cheers Pat

colouring lesson

This is one of the colouring lesson using glaze roller gel pens..I make the pin cushion by embroidering them on my janome..then give them to the students to try lots of different mediums..watercolour pencils, crayons, gel pens,pastels,anything you can set with textile medium, we seal and bling with crystals,pad them with leftover scrap wadding and the students get to take something home finished..the bigger projects always go home not finished and end up as UFO's I love to see things finished..what do you recon..there are heaps of pin cushions at all different stages around the workshop, must find them and keep them all together ..that would be a bonus when teaching..being organsed..whats that..or as Madge would say."Pat put them all in a clip lock bag" I recon she has shares in those..lol..good on ya Madge.xx
ps somewhere to use Zentangles!!!

Pin Cushion number 1

This is what I have christened "Arabian Nights" cause it reminds me of the cushions you see in the Aladdin movies..etc..so this is what my swap partners will receive eventually..lol..one down one to go..geeze I love this fiddly nonsense stuff..hope the girls love them too..I know Anne O'C loves blue..only from seeing her stash and shopping with her..everything is blue or Purple..bit obsessive compulsive I think..lol..theres pills you can take for that Anne..xx

my daughter the rabbi

This is my daughter..believe it or not..she arrived with her hair extensions on her chin and a bowler hat..funny kid..lol..
she will kill me for including this ..haha..

hristmas in july 2010

This is DD and DS at the end of the table,we had about 12 of us for chrissy in july the others are neighbors that have moved away from waterfall where we live..they have all retired and gone further afield..we had a great night even though it took me 3 weeks to clean the bloody house for the event..its amazing how out of control my home is..I would much rather create then do house work..shame its all my crap around the place..never mind in my next life I will be tidy..yeah right..cyas

yr 12 dress made from recycling

This dress was amazing it was made by a yr 12 girl from recycled stuff..aluminum cans and supermarket plastic bags..she had cut up the cans into scales and written on them like embossing endangered animals names, the bags where shredded and the skirt knitted from it..the train on the back also bags,,take note of the earrings they were cans and CD'S..the bodice was laced up the back which was made from ring pull tabs..there were also fish


and flowers, leaves..all very amazing I hate to say it but it got my vote..the kids are so lucky these days that they can be creative with everything..there were photos of the student wearing this creation....other things the kids made where timber beds, bass guitars, outdoor seat with and ice bucket in the middle, sun lounge, surf boards, cushions like donuts that were stackable..mosaics 3inch squares with photographs stuck and baked onto them,then arranged like a jigsaw puzzle with a secondary photo in it..like I said the kids are very creative..cheers Pat

Estelles yr 12 wallhanging

This is the HSC kid I have been helpings wallhanging, pity she didnt listen more..it turned out good for a 17 yr old with no experience and a man textile teacher..he was a woodworker, dont know how they expected him to help the textile girls..but anyway this is a project called friends..she with her parents and brother went to thailand and came back with a sarong to quilt...I showed her how to use the gammill and we put/she put spiral squares panto on it..everything that I think is relaxing they thought was hard ..like buttonholing around a washer to hold on sisha mirrors so they glued them on at the end..it had lots of crystals and other bling..well done Estelle..

Vic retreat with Hliary and Steph march 2010

Ok I have to start writing as I am getting confused uploading the same photo twice so sorry about that and I keep deleting the wrong one..so here we go..this is the wonderful retreat I went to with Hilary arnold and Steph Turner ..down at east gippsland VIC..where we did an Esther Aliu stenciling course..Oh I did enjoy the whole process..discovered I had a box load of the paints from a previous life..mind you I found them but haven't dabbled yet..the motel room/cabin was huge..had its own bathroom and kitchen..two bedrooms one a lovely american lady had with a double bed, I let steph have the bunk bed room and I moved a mattress onto the floor of the lounge room, you see I am in a really bad habit at home of sleeping with the TV on..must confess I dont like the dark..as it was very warm a mattress on the floor with a sheet was perfect..oh and I SNORE badly so I like my own space..I am also a diabetic and need to pee thru the night so i am a very restless soul to bunk in with..

this is the next group of rooms that dont have a bathroom and you need to go across the way to the amentities..not my idea of fun..













this is looking out at my car parked nice and close...I like that...its normally full of all my treasures..crap Raylene would say..lol











the last write up should be here..my car..lol

1st go stumpwork

1st go stumpwork at figtree hobbysew teacher rosemary I really enjoyed the lessons although I missed a few due to ill health..and bad weather NO way would I drive down the mountian in the fog..I recon its not worth risking ya life for a hobby...I was happy with the result it is a really relaxing and very slow craft..but the end results are wonderful..this is the one and only piece so far but the dragon fly and spider web have been used a few time..love little critters..must get this framed one day.cheers