I'm so, so, sew excited! This arrived in the mail today:
All the way from Lake Tahoe, California. What is it? Ta da!
My first quilt kit. McKenna Ryan's 'Calling Me Home'. It should look like
this when it's finished. I hope I have the patience to get through it! I am so conflicted about buying materials internationally. I could have paid double the price and supported a quilt shop here, but ... DOUBLE! And they have just done what I have done anyway... I still feel slightly guilty. It's just incredible that fabric is around $10/meter in the US and anywhere up to $28 here. Just crazy. If it was a few dollars difference, I wouldn't turn a hair. But now my local quilt shop has closed and it's a 40 minute treck for the privilege of paying 3x the price with no where near the range... well, I'm doing much of my buying online.
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| Bazooples sketches |
On other projects,here are my preliminary sketches for Meredith's Bazooples quilt. The ostrich is a bit big but he can be shrunk or redrawn.
Quilting for Queensland Quilt No 1 is finished. I called it "Give a dog a bone" (for obvious reasons).
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| Give a dog a bone |
And here's a sneak peek at the next Quilt for Queensland...
Off to sewing club tonight - possibly more tomorrow!
PS my camera skills MUST be improved.
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