Monday 17 November 2014

The Eternal Maker Crafts: Spotting the difference: on copying in fabric desi...



Whilst surfing some Facebook pages today, I found this most interesting item regarding the copying of fabric designs.

Amazing how copyright means so little to some companies.



Maureen







The Eternal Maker Crafts: Spotting the difference: on copying in fabric desi...:        This morning I turned away a sales rep from a company I have in the past bought fabrics from.  This company has great designed...

Thursday 2 October 2014

A Needlecase for Jen

Way back in May this year (2014) I received from Alison in Ayr, Jen's Needlecase, that four of us were working on. It arrived here, a few days before I went for foot surgery, and I thought "Excellent timing! I can work on it as I recuperate". Did I mention that I had a moon boot on said foot, and was not to be weight bearing for at least two months!! Well, that plan fell in a heap! Not only did recuperation take much longer, but I also succumbed to the "black dog" of clinical depression when I accomplished little or nothing in the way of Crazy quilting or anything else that could be classified as creative. My CQJP 2014 blocks have not been touched for nearly five months! (Hangs my head in shame) But at last, I'm getting back on track.........today I received an email from Jen in New South Wales, that she had received the needlecase which I had mailed late last week.
When I look at the scan of the block, I marvel at how such a small piece could take so long! Poor Jen, she couldn't be blamed for wondering IF she was ever going to receive her block. At least I have shrugged off the mind freezing inertia of the past few months and am feeling creative again. If you would like to visit KenMaursCorner you will see some more baby steps to recovery, where I have hand stitched some small motifs onto fabric Postcards. Then, I promise, I WILL be trying to catch up on my CQJP2014 blocks before 2014 comes to an end

Friday 14 March 2014

Tuesday 4 March 2014

March

.....and the WORD is CREATE I have had a slight deviation away from my planned CQJP2014 blocks, but only for the first days of March! I needed to create a postcard with the theme CREATE, so what better than a creating a small CQ'ed garden. It was also a chance to try freshen up my stitching skills after such a long absence!
As you can see, I have used Cretan and closed buttonhole on two of the seams as well as a looped running stitch. I tried adding a willow tree as well as a birdhouse to enhance the garden theme. Somehow, I think (hope) that birdhouse will be more satisfactory on the larger patches in my CQJP blocks. The face in the lower right corner was made with air drying paper paste (sorry I have forgotten the brand name, as it's been in my stash for the longest time. A mold of similar age was used, and painted with a Lumiere Turquoise paint. To enable her to relate to the block, I encircled her with the same ribbon braid used as a seam treatment on the left of the block. Glass butterfly, 2mm silk ribbon daisies, 7 mm flowers , buttons and squins were also used to fill the flower beds.

Monday 10 February 2014

Naked blocks. reposted from Kurli's Kottage

Tuesday, January 07, 2014 Some naked blocks Pictured below are blocks constructed in early November 2013in the hope I would have some stitching time whilst on a cruise around the North and South Islands of New Zealand. No prize for guessing that I didn't pack my sewing kit! . Yesterday (January 6) I started stitching chain : Using one of Sharon B's plastic templates, I started with a simple chain stitch. However because it's still so hot here in south east Queensland my hands were far too sticky for hand work, so I didn't even complete the three inch seam. After big storms last night I'm hoping that we have cooler weather for a while and that more stitching will happen. By the way: over on KenmaursCorner is a few comments I blogged there in early December Posted by Maureen at 10:18 AM No comments:
Labels: CQJP2014, January Tuesday, January 07, 2014 Some naked blocks Pictured below are blocks constructed in early November 2013in the hope I would have some stitching time whilst on a cruise around the North and South Islands of New Zealand. No prize for guessing that I didn't pack my sewing kit! . Yesterday (January 6) I started stitching chain : Using one of Sharon B's plastic templates, I started with a simple chain stitch. However because it's still so hot here in south east Queensland my hands were far too sticky for hand work, so I didn't even complete the three inch seam. After big storms last night I'm hoping that we have cooler weather for a while and that more stitching will happen. By the way: over on KenmaursCorner is a few comments I blogged there in early December Posted by Maureen at 10:18 AM No comments: Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Links to this post Labels: Naked; stencils Monday, January 06, 2014 CQJP 2014 After leaving this blog in Never Land for virtually six years, Kurli's Kottage is being re incarnated to allow me to blog my work on the Crazy Quilt Journal Project 2014. My KenMaursCorner will still get the occasional blog update. Why this back flip? Well (hanging my head in embarrassment) I just don't seem able to successfully add the CQJP2014 "badge" to information already on this blog. And my dear friend Maureen Bond of CrazyQStitcher who has been instrumental in my returning to CQ is unable to help me include the badge on KenMaursCorner, so here goes nothing. For some time I have been uncomfortable in veering away from CQ and spending much time and money on Fabric and Fibre Postcards, and around Christmas, Australia Post made it easy to bite the bullet and walk away from making a swapping fabric postcards, by INCREASING postage rates by Au ninety-five cents per card! I may still make the odd card in the future, but no longer will I be making and posting as many cards as I used to. Posted by Maureen at 5:00 PM No comments: Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Links to this post

January Report

CQJP 2014 January report Twenty four hours remain to complete the first block of the 2014 Crazy Quilting Journal Project, and I am sure I will not meet my deadline! (Not an auspicious start to a new project, I’m afraid) Please note that this "report" was actually blogged on another of my blogs on January 30th but I am endeavouring to keep all my CQJP2014 together....WHEN I can master adding badges to my side bars, all will be "cool" I was aware that I would be facing a steep (learning) curve as I attempt to improve my hand work proficiency after so long away from CQ, but I admit that I haven’t been as dedicated to the task as I should be.DSC02659 It has been so long since I have done any silk ribbon embroidery, and I find that I have needed to to dye some ribbons in order to work on the block, and of course that eroded my stitching time as I rediscovered my dyes Just before Christmas I invested in a set of SharonB’s plastic CQ templates! Such fun! Now I can have “balanced” shapes to stitch for my seam treatments. There are four pieces in the set, and the combinations are limited only by the stitcher’s imagination! These nifty aids will surely feature in all my blocks……and, hopefully I will get myself organised to include a photograph of the stencils in a later blogging. As you can see from the photograph, there is a heck of a lot more work necessary on my January block….but IT WILL BE DONE! It’s such fun returning to SRE again! Perhaps I need re-think my strategy for the project and work at completing SIX instead of twelve blocks. Silly me…I have also committed to a Round Robin with the SouthernCrossCrazies, as well as participating in Round 19 SWAP with PostMark’dArt and I’m currently working on a “WHITE on WHITE” theme: Some cards are being worked in a CQ format and in others I have used Needle felted backgrounds. More about that,later! Posted by Maureen at 12:09 PM No comments: Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Links to this post