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Hand Stitched Hearts and Birthday Wishes

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Well my Quilty Friends, today I'm posting a Video Tutorial on how to make the Hand Stitched Hearts we made in class today for our Community Centre Christmas Tree.  Doesn't it look lovely with a mixture of last weeks Machine Stitched and this weeks Hand Stitched Hearts?  And here are a couple of pics of the Monday Ladies busy hand stitching.  I had made up lots of little kits for them - including a needle - I wasn't taking any excuses! I couldn't make a kit each for you my readers. Sew, But you can certainly watch my Hand Stitched Hearts Video  Hope you enjoy the video I know lots of Monday Ladies today were rushing out to buy some felt to make more of these simple but stunning little hearts. And of course they are not just for Christmas. Hearts can be hung any time of year. AND If you stuff them a little more stiffly, they make lovely pin cushions too. ALSO You might Enjoy Browsing Thru My Other Social Media Links Yours

ABC Applique Kickback Friday

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I've been quiet I know. My D.H. is on holidays this week and next week. But We are having a stay at home holiday Sew I have had time to stitch - just been having a break from 'tinternet. I've been working on 'The Baby Quilt' All the stitching on these is now finished. If you want to see how I machine applique  check out my  M achine Applique Video part 1 and Machine Applique Video part 2 to view click on the pink links The Strippy Quilt I'm lovin the purple Top is now finished ready for quilting. And yesterday I started making samples for our next Monday Class Project. More details on this one soooon..... Meanwhile take a look at my other Social Media Links Well that's all from me tonight folks, Yours in Stitches, Joy

Strip Quilts - Monday Group

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Ideas for strip quilts are flowing in thick and fast in Monday Group. Judith C is  working on a second lovely strippy in happy spring colours. Judith D has gone for a  mini strip.... This is from the book 101  Fabulous Small Quilts - I think And Jean is working on a cross between a log cabin and a strippy aren't they simply stunning colours - and as you can see in the picture it's from a Kaffe Fassatt's book Quilts en Provence. And being Jean, they are made up in silk fabrics. Jean is working on her fourth block so has only another forty to make. Well done ladies I'm proud of you all - keep up the good work. And thank you for allowing me to document your progress. If you would like to see some other strippy ideas click on my Facebook page link here.  I'm holding fire on my strippy for a minute. We are going to Doughty's road show in Cowbridge tomorrow and I want to lay my strips up against a few different fabrics before I decide on the

Strips, Stitcheries, & Kickback Friday - Any Dream Will Do.

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Well my Quilty Friends I've started on my Strip Quilt. It's a brilliant way to use up the fabric left over from a finished project. If you use fabrics left over from a project they will obviously go together so the added bonus is you don't have to worry about matching colours. Also it could make a quick and easy matching accessory for said project. Other than that. Pick a piece of fabric and choose fabric from the colours that are in it. The striped fabric was my starting point. The pink on the right didn't make it into the final cut! I cut my strips 5" in length & between one and a quarter and two and a half inches in width just to add some variety. BUT one and a quarter was a bit to thin  I wouldn't go below one and a half inches in future. OR You can cut your strips all the same width.  I've been looking at strippy quilts on-line and the one above took my fancy. It's by  Cluck Cluck Sew   If you cl

Millenium Quilt Swap - Y2K

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Good morning my Quilty Friends. Todays post is about the Millenium Quilt or Y2K Swap. Do you remember back in 1999, when we were all so excited about reaching our 2000th year. There was much speculation about it’s effects on the world in general and computer systems in particular. There was a school of thought that felt many computer systems would be unable to cope with the change from 1999 to 2000. Well, happily we reach the end of 1999 and burst into 2000 without a hitch. Happy days. Anyways, over the weekend I was taking my ‘Millenium quilt’ off my bed and thought, um…..my quilty friends might like to know about this. Back in the day, before laptops, tabs and very cleaver mobile phones. I was sat (as many of us did back then) in the little bedroom where our computer was housed, wandering slowly (dail up) thru the web when I came across something called the Y2K swap. Basically you put your email address and where you were from onto the Y2K website to join in with the swap

Daisy stitches – Kickback Friday

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Well my Quilty Friends, it's still hot, hot, hot in Wales. So I was up, dressed and down the beach nice and early this morning before the day had a chance to heat up. And it was glorious down there this morning. I wanted to introduce Daisy to the beach. At first she was afraid. She was pretrified And after ten minutes of trying, I had to pick her up and carry her onto the beach. At first she stuck by me like glue. But then she thought the wet sand was pretty cool to lay in. What, me roll around in the wet sand. No it wasn't me - I'm not sure I like the beach. Stay with me this does involve stitching - eventually. Now she's getting into it - ears all akimbo - She looks a bit like a gremlin - maybe that's what happens to her for ten minutes every evening when she goes wild. Um.. must remember not to get her wet. Ah yes, this is the life - just call me Daisy Digger or Digger Daisy Using camera timer now - quic

Getting the paints out - Monday Group

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Well my Quilty Friends as this hot weather continues here in Wales my stitching has almost ground to a halt. It's just too hot to be indoors sewing. So it's hand stitching in the garden for me. Mind you even that's not easy with Daisy (my new puppy) wanting to help all the time. Once the weather cools down the and normal sewing resumes, the next part on my log cabin is the binding. Meanwhile,  I'm going to show you a little piece I'm currently working on. As a backdrop to this story. Me and a few of my quilty friends have recently joined the Contemporary Section of the Quilters Guild of the British Isles. I've been a 'Guild' member for years, but this May decided to join the Contemporary Section. Well, we all went to a Guild Area Day last month and the speaker was Gillian Travis . She is also a member of the Contemporary section. And she was showing amongst other things, some of the pieces she had made for the Contemporary challenge this

Win's 100 year old Welsh Quilt

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Win's 100 Year Old Welsh Quilt In actual class today our most Senior Member, Win, brought in one of her mothers quilts. Obviously being in Wales this is a Welsh Quilt.  It is about 100 years old. Above, Win with her mum's Welsh Quilt Below showing both sides of the quilt. The plain side shows off the quilting beautifully While the patterned side has some wonderfully colourful flowers on it.  Above and below are close-ups of the lovely quilting patterns. I was tempted to record her telling the story behind the quilt. But she was half way through when I thought of it and I didn’t like to ask her to start again. Anyways. As I said this quilt belonged to Win’s mother. And in typical Welsh fashion, the quilt was made by the village quilter/sewing lady. Win was brought up on a farm. And sadly her mother died when Win was very young.  But she knows the story of her mums quilts very well. I’ll try and tell you the story as best I can. This story is set

Monday Group - Marbling

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Today we had a complete change in class and played with the Marbling Kit we bought in the Quilt Show in Malvern last month. We used a pipett to drop in our  paints, and a cocktail stick and a makeshift ‘afro’ comb made out of cocktail sticks and selotape to ‘marble’ the paints. Here are some of the finished pieces. I then took them home to line dry them. Look – blue skies – summer has hit Port Talbot. We had a wonderful morning with comments such as: I wouldn't think of doing this at home. But I've enjoyed playing with the paints here. (All set up and ready for them). Can we do this again please? and Can we paint on shells next time? The swirling the paints with the cocktail stitcks was by far their favourite part - seeing what patterns emerged from the paints. So it looks like we will have to go to the beach to find some shells then! Above is a video of Chris 'having a go' this morning.