tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39652471652191830642024-03-19T18:32:06.761+10:00Ozzypip QuiltsAustralian quilter sharing her life's adventures and her passion for quiltingozzypiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07751571081318370995noreply@blogger.comBlogger651125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965247165219183064.post-605508524193514642018-03-12T09:57:00.000+10:002018-03-12T09:57:15.808+10:00Instagram - a learning curve<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I joined Instagram ages ago but have to be honest I never quite got to grips with it for ages. My daughter would have to step me through how to post things and then by the time I decided to have another go I'd have forgotten what I was doing and she would have to step me through it all over again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I never got it and couldn't figure out why so many people were enamoured with it and some podcasters (ok Stephanie at Modern Sewciety mostly) would rave about it. I just didn't get it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When I opened the Etsy shop for Handmade With Love I figured I should get serious about it as it seems that it was one way that I could promote the shop and hopefully drive some activity and sales. Another crash course by Fangirl, in how to work it and I was away. I changed the name to reflect the fact that it was connected with Handmade With Love and started to try to post stuff on there about the shop. I had to learn a lot about hashtags (they used to really annoy me to be honest) and I am still learning. My account probably needs a lot of polishing but I guess like me, its a work in progress. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Trying to attract more followers has been interesting. I joined an Australian loop - where you post a certain post and then are encouraged to follow other people that like it etc... that has worked to an extent although to be honest I have ended up following and having followers that aren't really my demographic... lots of mummy instagramers - especially ones who are promoting their child and trying to get "brand reps" etc. So I am rather ambivalent about it. Yes I have attracted more followers (up to 680)but it hasn't had a corresponding increase in people liking or commenting on my posts or visiting my Etsy shop. And some how it feels a bit icky to me... mothers pimping out their kids for free stuff. I'm thinking of culling who I follow... but then I do like to see my numbers growing. If they are prolific posters that end up clogging my feed with posts I am not interested in I may well give them the flick. Sigh. Its hard to know</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Something that I have been joining in and really enjoying since the beginning of March has been a hashtag called March Meet the Maker (#marchmeetthemaker). Set up by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/joannehawker/" target="_blank">Joanne Hawker</a> its a month long challenge where each day the makers on Instagram have a topic to engage in on their Instagram account.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm finding it really interesting learning about lots of other makers out there on Instagram. Boy there are a lot of them. Its also challenging to come up with the photos and content for my own posts. It was extra challenging to start with as I was away from home so couldn't take more photos - had to rely on the photos I had with me - what fun!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I also am taking part in #igquiltfest run by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/amyscreativeside/" target="_blank">Amy Ellis</a>. Again there is a month long list of prompts for posts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I am not really enjoying this one as much although it is also interesting. Its all quilts so not so much variety and maybe at the moment I am not so into quilting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anyway - so are you on Instagram? My handle is <a href="https://www.instagram.com/handmadewithloveorh/" target="_blank">handmadewithloveorh</a> if you want to find me and follow me. I'm there a bit more often than I am here these days.</span>ozzypiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07751571081318370995noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965247165219183064.post-11233640769113718872018-03-01T07:34:00.000+10:002018-03-01T07:34:54.340+10:00Blogging from A to Z challenge 2018 I'm in<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Last year, after the Blogging from A to Z challenge I barely blogged for months - or for the rest of the year to be honest. Its taken till this month for me to get back into the swing of posting even a little. After 3 years of the challenge plus lots of other blogging I just petered out. Life got busy. I travelled. I got very involved in Handmade With Love and sewing for Comic Con and Supanova. I didn't seem to have much of a following and frankly figured who would miss me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I still wrote blogs in my head at times but never got them onto the computer. Sometimes I made it to the computer but didn't get the photos taken ... or edited... or uploaded. It just got too hard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have gradually got back to it this month of February... 3 posts in a week. I was on fire (Lol) I looked at my stats - the visits that I had over the week and I was astounded by the number I had. I mean I am by no means setting the world on fire or creating new records but well yes I was... for me anyway. People were reading my blog (at least visiting it) and that has been encouraging. Not commenting though. No one is commenting (hint hint)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">And I thought... maybe I could blog regularly again. I was definitely NOT going to enter the A to Z challenge again. I blamed it for my walking away from my blogging. Then </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I looked back at my A to Z posts from last year and saw I had 250 plus visits. As I say - maybe not earth shattering for many bloggers - small fry to many but for me that was fantastic. So yeah - maybe I would enter again and if nothing else it might get me back blogging again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So - today of all days, when we are going to be hosting an engagement party for a friend, when we have so many things to get done, when we are going away for several days tomorrow... I have decided that I would enter the challenge and what is more have started to draft some of my entries. Not what I need to be doing and with that I will sign off. With no pictures to pretty this blog up. So I am going to leave it at that. Post this as is and dive into my busy day but I will be back. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">See you all again soon</span>ozzypiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07751571081318370995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965247165219183064.post-53090407566075492732018-02-26T22:18:00.000+10:002018-02-26T22:18:19.175+10:00Africa!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm really excited to be going to Zambia later this year - May to be precise! I will be accompanying Peggy, the former co-ordinator of Handmade With Love for a 3 week visit to the school that Handmade With Love was established to support ie Our Rainbow House. Peggy and I have both begun the process of having our innoculations, getting the required paperwork that the charity requires (including a police check!) but we haven't booked our flights yet!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We have started to discuss what we are going to need to take with us - our bags will be filled up by the charity here with things that they want us to take over, as well as our own personal bits and pieces.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Whilst in an African frame of mind I have added some items with an African theme to our <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/HandmadeWithLoveORH?ref=search_shop_redirect" target="_blank">Etsy shop.</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Firstly there is the jewelery that was handmade in the village that our school is in and bought by previous volunteers for us to sell. Purchasing these items doubly benefits the local community as all profits from their sale goes back to the school. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then there are some iPad/table sleeves made from fabric bought in the village. These are beautiful, functional and inexpensive. Check them out. You know you want to. (Cute factor... there are Zebras on some) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yet to be photographed we have some children's dresses, some lamp shades, and some kitchen ware - all made in genuine African fabric. There just isn't enough time in the day to get the photography, editing and uploading done.</span>ozzypiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07751571081318370995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965247165219183064.post-62453660683589313292018-02-20T14:00:00.000+10:002018-02-20T14:00:50.069+10:00Etsy Shop<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ever since I became involved with sewing for Handmade With Love my daughter Ros aka Fangirl, has been suggesting that I set up an Etsy shop to sell our goodies. People have been asking if they can purchase our things online but it always seemed too hard. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We did okay for first timers, but I sold almost as much online via my Facebook page, to my friends (and their friends). I also got asked numerous times if people could buy our stuff online. Directing them to the Public Album on my Facebook page was my only option and to be honest that was a bit awkward. With my friends (and their friends) I could post and then tell them what the postage was and then they paid me. I wasn't sure I wanted to do that with random strangers.</span><br />
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Cosplayers at Comic Con. It was an eye opener and to be honest I had to ask my younger family members who the characters were many times.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So I asked Fangirl if she would help me set up an Etsy shop. She sells her wonderful patterns and kits (she designs geeky cross stitch patterns - see my side bar) But to do that we needed decent photos of my stock and we didn't have time to take all the photos.... so we left it. I was sure I could do it on my own - it was supposed to be very user friendly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Eventually we arrived home from our gadding about and after a week or so to unpack, settle in, sew the orders that I had received post Comic Con (from friends via Facebook ) I decided it was time to conquor Etsy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">First I had to take those photos and to do that I needed to make a light box. (Essential for good photos Fangirl told me). Pinterest here I come. I found a number of good tutorials, and as we DIYers and makers are wont - I ended up with a mishmash of several blogs. I was going to photograph my process and write my own tutorial - but why bother when there are a number of excellent free tutorials out there already. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Before I photographed all my stuff I thought that I would set up the shop. I got as far as name and thought "Do I put my name or the name of the group? Should I use my email or set up a special one..." panic set in. Well not quite panic but worry so I messaged Fangirl Like the sweetheart she is she ended up ringing me back that night (I had by this time messaged her about 4 things to do with the shop). She sent me a link to set up a shop (by using it we both got some free listings so that was good) and then stayed on the phone and stepped me through the whole process. What a treasure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Lightbox made it was time to photograph. I only have my Iphone camera these days and it did a pretty good job. I took a photo, sometimes 2 (to give the side view) of all my zipper pouches and bits and pieces. Then I edited all the ones of large zipper pouches. I was ready to start uploading them. I put them all up, struggling with the tagging, and the composing of each description (till I worked out that since they were all the same, just different fabrics I could copy and paste each one. I'm not really slow)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Before going to bed that night I posted a link to my shop on Facebook and announced the opening of the shop. Once more my friends were so supportive. (Yay friends). I had asked for feedback and they gave me lots of positive stuff and a few suggestions for improvements. I especially appreciated the feedback I got from a couple of regular Etsy users who gave me ideas for tags. One suggested that I tell people that the bags were lined and to include a photo of the lining. Great ideas... but it meant I had to photograph everything again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When photographing the interiors I decided that including some props would also show their uses and give an idea of size. So that meant photographing everything several times... which meant lots more photos to edit and upload.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I got the shop up and running in time for Brisbane Supanova in November. I got more help from Earthyyu who designed a business card for Handmade With Love and all our links. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Please go on over and check out the Etsy shop for <a href="https://www.etsy.com/people/handmadewithlove" target="_blank">Handmade With Love</a>. Its called Handmade With Love ORH as Handmade With Love was already taken. (ORH stands for Our Rainbow House) All profits from the Handmade With Love go to Our Rainbow House, the school in Zambia that we support.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I had a quick trip to Brisbane and Sydney at the end of January to see family. My sister Joy has MND (Motor Neurone Disease) and I am getting in as many visits to her as I can. My mum is also 95 so frequent visits to her are also essential. Joy has been been a patchworker longer than I. She is still sewing. She makes simple quilts that are given to refugees through <a href="https://www.stfrancis.org.au/house-of-welcome" target="_blank">Sydney's House of Welcome</a>. Because of her detirorating health she can no longer get down on the floor to pin her quilts (and she doesn't have a table) so each time I visit her I pin the quilts that she has ready. She then quilts them and now she has friends from a quilting group who are helping her bind them. Over the visits I made in September, November and January I together with my my trusty minion (I had a different one each time) pinned a total of 22 quilts. Here's a photo of me pinning quilts with my latest minions, My definitely non crafty oldest sister Beth and Joy's daughter Jude</span><br />
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Joy in the background, Beth and I on the ground pinning! Notice how we were all so colour co-ordinated. The 3 sisters all in blue, pinning a blue quilt and even a blue quilt on the couch (that one I made my bil for his 70th birthday)</div>
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My niece and I pinning. No quite so colour co-ordinated this time but Jude and I matched up in our black. Joy also was wearing a black and white top.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have taken over as co-ordinator of the Handmade With Love group but so far that has just entailed taking possession of all the stock for sale and getting the forms to change the bank signatories. Not a whole heap. I have started to take photographs of the stock to put onto the Etsy shop. That is going to be a long process. I have to represent the group to the monthly meetings of the Our Rainbow House and present a report. We are also on Facebook if you want to look us up and follow us there Our Rainbow House Handmade With Love.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Speaking of the <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/HandmadeWithLoveORH" target="_blank">Etsy shop</a> have you popped in to check out what we have there? <a href="http://www.handmadewithloveorh.etsy.com/">www.HandmadeWithLoveORH.etsy.com</a> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Please do. Even if you don't buy anything if you could favourite the shop and some items in it that would be great - it helps bump us up the algorithms and directs more traffic to our site. Sales have been steady - not huge but ticking over a bit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Exciting news on the travel front is that I am off to Zambia in May to visit the school, <a href="http://ourrainbowhouse.org.au/" target="_blank">"Our Rainbow House"</a> that we support. I am going with Peggy, the former co-ordinator of Handmade With Love.</span><br />
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Peggy and I - off to Zambia in May</div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We are also off to Fiji in July for a wedding so that is going to be exciting too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The latest project I have been working on for Handmade With Love have been produce bags, to use in the fruit and vegie section of the supermarket. Our state (Queensland) is banning single use plastic bags at the point of sale later this year and it is promting awareness of the use of plastics. A tv show "War on Waste" has also been instrumental in raising awareness of ... well waste. Anyway I made a set of 6 bags and a little pouch to put them in. I put a photo of them on Facebook and asked my friends if they would be interested in buying them at 6 of $10.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Initially I used up some lace curtaining and netting which I had on hand and then I went to the local second hand shops and purchased a couple more curtains and a bag of netting scraps. I made 24 sets from those. I bought some more netting from Spotlight and made the rest of the bags I needed. I had hoped to have some left over to put on Etsy but as I sewed and posted updates on my progress I kept getting more orders and thus all 36 sets I made were ordered. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The price is going to go up after this as in order to have a consistent product on Etsy I will be using new fabric. From now on they will be $15. I don't mind that my friends got a bargain. Many of them have been very generous supporters of the charity over the years. Its been a crazy few weeks. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">To be honest the reason I took the photos was to put on this blog. I had started writing this post and mentioned the bags and thought I should photograph them... once they were photographed I decided to share them on Instagram and then shared it to Facebook as well. Things got so crazy so quickly I didn't get back to finishing this blog.... and then I had to rewrite a heap. Talk about crazy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">With the new year I am hoping that I can get myself motivated and back into it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have been on Instagram a fair bit (going over to the dark side?) My handle there is <a href="https://www.instagram.com/handmadewithloveorh/" target="_blank">@Handmadewithloveorh</a> so if you Instagram why not check me out and start following me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In September last year Handmade With Love had a stall at Brisbane Comic Con. It was lots of work and lots of fun too. I shared the table with Earthyyu, my son's partner (formerly known on this blog as Gamer Girl). I was selling zipper pouches and bags made from a range of licensed geeky fabrics. Check out her Instagram account <a href="https://www.instagram.com/earthyyudrawstuff/" target="_blank">here</a> and her online shop at <a href="http://earthyyudrawstuff.storenvy.com/" target="_blank">Store Envy</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We did it all again in November at Brisbane Supanova. We've signed up for Gold Coast Supanova in April, (super excited cause Peter Capaldi the 12th Doctor from Doctor Who is going to be there.) We have also applied for Brisbane Comic Con in September. Currently sewing madly to get my stock up - especially lots of Doctor Who fabrics.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have also, with the help of my daughter, Fangirl (from Fangirl Stitches) set up an Etsy shop for Handmade With Love. So far it has only got the stuff that I have sewn in it - the things I make to sell at Comic Con and Supanova but I am planning to also put some of the other "non geeky" products we have sewn....when I get some time. The shop is <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/handmadewithloveorh" target="_blank">https://www.etsy.com/shop/handmadewithloveorh</a>. I'd love you to check it out... maybe favourite a few items... or buy something! All profits go to support <a href="http://ourrainbowhouse.org.au/" target="_blank">Our Rainbow House</a></span><br />
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<br />ozzypiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07751571081318370995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965247165219183064.post-29120827121673847552017-10-13T08:00:00.000+10:002017-10-13T08:00:22.276+10:00Buildings<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We travelled recently to 6 different countries:- Japan, Czech Republic, Germany, Netherlands, Norway and the UK. (</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">(I won't count Dubai as we just transited through there)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We happened to be in Scotland when the new long awaited and no doubt very expensive Queensferry Crossing Bridge opened.</span><br />
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The 1.7 miles (2.7km) structure is the longest three-tower, cable-stayed bridge in the world and also by far the largest to feature cables which cross mid-span. This innovative design provides extra strength and stiffness, allowing the towers and the deck to be more slender and elegant. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I love these massive swooping cables and the extended towers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On our recent trip I became fascinated by stair cases. Australia is a young country and also a big one. Space is not really a problem, certainly it wasn't when our country was formed and so our houses went out more than up. I loved visiting places in Europe which had the extended stair cases - yes even when it was our hotel and we were on the 3rd floor and there was no lift. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I also became fascinated by shadows. This might have been because we appreciated it when we got days with lots of sunshine in them. We were blessed by the weather on our trip but not all days were sunny. Just because it wasn't pelting down rain it didn't mean it was sunny. I really appreciated the sunny days and the shadows they bought.</span><br />
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The famous Australia Sign at Expo 88 was interesting in itself but much more interesting with Fixit Guy and our oldest 2 kids in front of it.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Its not just scenery I like but textures. A friend looking at some of my photos on Facebook of our recent trip asked me why I was taking photos of pavements, man hole covers and bricks. And my answer was.... texture. I love the textures. I was originally going to put all the pictures into one post but instead I will spread them out over several days. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On a guided tour I took once the guide pointed out that Manhole covers are fascinating works of art in themselves with much social history behind them</span></div>
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ozzypiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07751571081318370995noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965247165219183064.post-77677637935659967012017-10-08T08:00:00.000+10:002017-10-08T08:00:24.144+10:00And Sew to travel<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our recent overseas trip was just over 6 weeks in duration. I didn't have time to organise myself a hand sewing project to travel with. The time leading up to our departure was taken up with sewing items and getting organised for my stall at Comic Con which was immediately after our return. I'd posted a status on my FB page stating the number of projects I had completed and was promptly bombarded with requests to see the items. I was delighted to oblige although it necessitated the photographing of all the items and loading them up on facebook. That was followed by a flurry of orders from my friends (and their friends) for various things which I then had to package up and send off all over the country.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That's a long story to say..... no hand projects. I was content though. I had a project to do on my computer - (well my husband's computer since I didn't take mine) - sorting and labelling a bunch of photos that I had scanned from my mother's negatives. That would entertain me sufficiently I felt on the long flights we were undertaking. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So I had resigned myself to 7 weeks of not sewing at all. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">However - that was not QUITE the way it turned out. Our first stopover on our trip was with our Japanese host son Sho and his wife Yuri (and our beautiful host granddaughter Suzu). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the corner of their living room I saw a treadle sewing machine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />Yuri had bought it second hand because it was such a beautiful piece of furniture. She had sewn a couple of things but during our stay asked me to help her sew something for Suzu. A dress perhaps she suggested. Now I am not much of a garment sewer and wasn't sure that we would be able to manage it in the time we had available but was game to have a go. However Yuri saw the photos of bandana bibs that I had made for stalls and we decided to have a go at those. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I love those bandana bibs. They are simple and affective and quick to sew. In about half and hour we managed to print the pattern, cut out the fabric and sew them up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yuri did the machine sewing and the ironing and I did the hand stitching - sewing on the press studs and sewing closed the opening left to reverse the bibs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was perfect and so much fun to sew with her. The memory still makes my heart sing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We had a brilliant time overseas. I outlined our travel plans in a previous blog post <a href="https://ozzypipquilts.blogspot.com.au/2017/07/thursday-thoughts-part-1-our-travel.html" target="_blank">here</a> and I can now tell you that our plans worked out perfectly and we had an absolute blast. We got to meet our Japanese host son's wife for the first time and also our beautiful granddaughter. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Did my comic con stall stock take 6 laptop bags, 17 iPad bags, 44 cosmetics purses, 37 pencil cases, 44 earbud/round pouches, 29 zipper coin purses, 29 tissue packet covers, 4 hanging towels, 14 pot holders, 9 hair scrunchies, 5 bandana bibs. All made from geeky type fabrics (Pokémon, doctor who, StarbWars, batman, Wonder Woman etc) I am done now. It's 2 weeks till I leave for overseas and the convention is a week after we get back. I have to tidy my sewing room before I go so need to stop</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was basically having a little boast about what I had done. What I didn't expect was for my friends to start asking about stuff and wanting to buy from me. It started with one friend asking about the iPad bags so I posted her photos of all of the different ones </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have a page on this blog that I put items I had made onto (so the Comic Con selection committee people could have a look and see what sorts of things I have made/could make) I will load the photos onto that too... eventually.</span></div>
ozzypiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07751571081318370995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965247165219183064.post-44043775939923949402017-07-13T22:31:00.000+10:002017-07-13T22:31:06.358+10:00Thursday Thoughts Part 1:- our travel plans<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Did I tell you we are off overseas at the end of this month? Well we are... we leave here on Tuesday 25th and fly out of Australia on Thursday 27th. We have given ourselves a day extra in case something goes wrong on our drive to Brisbane. Its 900km and we regularly do it in a day and rarely have we had anything go wrong... but, since we are retired and have the time we have decided to have the extra day just in case. So... we leave in 12 days time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We fly to Japan first off for a week to visit with Sho, our host son from 2004. He lived with us for a year and this will be our 3rd visit to see him. This time we get to meet his wife and baby daughter so its very special. We will also get to visit with his parents and perhaps see some of his siblings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">From Japan we fly to Frankfurt (via Dubai and a 5 hour lay over at 3 AM... blergh) and from there catch a train to Prague where we will be joining our week long Barge Bike tour. Then its back to Germany (by train) and 4 days with our host daughter from 2006 Lena and then train to Amsterdam for a long weekend. From there we will fly to Norway and have a week with our host son Joergen (from 2005) and will attend his wedding whilst we are there. Then we fly to Scotland, hire a car and have 12 days driving about UK (well Scotland and England) catching up with some of Fixit Guy's cousins and his aunty Joyce. We arrive back in Australia on the 12th September. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then my daughter is going to be heading down to Sydney Comic Con the following week. She is going to be driving down for it and I have decided to go with her. It will give me a chance to see my mum again (she turns 95 the day we fly out of the UK) and also my sister who has been diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease. It will also give Fangirl company on the drive and I will be her off sider at the convention. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This week I have been working on some of the Comicon sewing I am doing for the stall I am hoping to have at the Brisbane Comic Con in September - I will only hear if I get in at the end of this month. Here's hoping (We have to apply for a stall and wait to get selected) I am planning on sharing the stall with my son's partner that I have been calling Gamer Girl on this blog. She is now using the name Earthyyu Drawstuff ... so I am going to swatch over to that. You can see some of her stuff on her Facebook page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/EarthyyuDrawstuff/?pnref=story" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This last week I have been making some Easy Cosmetic Bags (from Sew So Easy) - by some I mean I made 25 this week in a variety of Pop Culture fabrics. I now have a zipper bag in every one of the pop culture fabrics that I have. I have also been working on some Teeny Tiny Zipper bags, using up some of the scraps of the pop culture fabrics. They are a variety of sizes as I was just working with the size of the scraps. I realised that I was out of the lobster clips I usually put on the zipper bags. I have ordered some split rings and will use them instead. It is a bit frustrating as I am sure I have some somewhere here at home but can't locate them. Now that I have sewn the bags I won't be able to use them on these as they are sewn but the split rings will be good. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have completed putting all the photos from my mums negatives on facebook. My mum loved taking photos, mostly of her kids (she had 8 so lots of practice). In the 1950s women were kept in hospital for 10 days and it was the only time my mum got to sit and stitch. She worked on a supper cloth over several babies. Just recently my sister who was in possession of this cloth passed it on to me. I was delighted to find that my mum used it in this photo of one of my siblings (I suspect its my brother Frank who was born in 1952 but not sure.) </span></div>
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ozzypiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07751571081318370995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965247165219183064.post-34793054813851828292017-06-23T07:23:00.004+10:002017-06-23T07:33:08.385+10:00The Hiatus Continues<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I seem to have lost my will to blog... not my will to live but my will to blog. I can't believe that in 2 months this is only my 2nd blog post. Not sure why and I am sorry for my loyal followers who will now have given up on me and gone to places else where for their blog fix. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the month since I last wrote my main creative input has been in scanning, editing, labelling and posting on Facebook my mother's negatives. She was an avid photographer although not necessarily proficient she was prolific. We children were the main subject for her photography as she documented our growing up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have now scanned all the negatives. It was quite a process. The 35mm ones were simple enough as I had a small scanner, given to me by my daughter several years ago. It scanned the photo and converted it to a positive digital image that I was able to edit quite easily. The black and white negatives from before she acquired the 35mm camera were harder. I had to scan them on our flat bed scanner, then use another program to convert the negative scan to a positive image, and then edit and enhance the picture using one of a number of programs. The flat bed scanner didn't always do a great job and I am seriously considering getting a special photographic scanner to redo the negatives to get a clearer image. but that won't be till Christmas. Anyway - its been an interesting going over the photos and trying to work out where they were taken and why and sometimes who.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This photo really amused our family. Its the 5 youngest children. There was obviously a litter of kittens and puppies at this point on the farm but some how my youngest brother (near dad) only got a cut apple to hold. He looks somewhat bemused by this</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our small community used to have a Fancy Dress ball for the kids each year. With very little money but lots of imagination mum would manufacture costumes for us all. This year (the earliest one I can find photos for) I was about 3 and went as Old King Cole. One of my sisters was the pipers that he called for (mum didn't realise that the pipe he called for was his smoking pipe.)<br /><br />Old King Cole was a merry old soul<br />And a merry old soul was he.<br />He called for his pipe and he called for his bowl and <br />he called for his fiddlers three</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This has taken up a lot of my time - time I would usually spend sewing. I haven't missed my sewing time which is really weird for me. I feel like I am still in a bit of a hiatus or waiting time. I wonder if my excessive sewing over the last year or so has burnt me out. I have finished off a lot of quilts and other projects and thoroughly enjoyed my time. Now might be just a time of rest and recuperation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have done some projects. The Twilter group (on Facebook and Twitter) has been working on a QAL using a pattern called Layer Cake Explosion by Angela Gross from Quilts Bayou. The pattern is a free one from Craftsy but the instructions are fairly minimal as it was designed to be a class pattern, that she explained in the lesson. Daisy (from Laisy Daisy Quilts and Reads blog and podcast) is running the QAL on Facebook and she is writing the more detailed instructions for us. I happened to go on a retreat a couple of weeks ago and took it with me. I hadn't really started the QAL up till then and went from the beginning right through all the steps, using the pattern and managed to get in a muddle at one point as... well I was ahead of the game. Daisy kindly helped me along but the putting together clue is not being explained till the proper time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So yes... I went on a retreat. I have been going to this particular retreat since 2002 (I think it is) I've missed a couple of years for various reason but have attended 11 or 12 times by my reckoning. The retreat itself celebrated its 30th birthday this year. Our theme was Pearls (for 30th anniversary) and the dinner theme was Pearls or T for thirty. This is the first year I have taken a friend with me and it was extra fun because of that. In the past, whilst people are always friendly and many of them I have known for the 15 years I have been going and some from before that even, it was nice to have someone who was MINE so to speak. We shared our accommodation, shared the same table group, sat together at meals mostly etc. It was lovely.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I made a couple of mug rugs for the swap we did on the weekend, worked on the mystery quilt and made a heap of hanging towels for Handmade With Love. It was productive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I really need to get on with my Comic Con sewing as I have just over a month till we leave home to go on our trip to Japan, Europe and the UK. Once back from there it is just 10 days till the event. (I thought it was going to be 3 days and had timed it perfectly but Comic Con is a week later than I thought. Glad its not a week earlier) So I will have a bit of time to sew once we get back but not much.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Since the retreat I have cut out about 25 Easy Cosmetic zipper bags (from the pattern by So Sew Easy) The stiffening has been ironed on and I have started inserting the zips. Hopefully I will get them all done in the next few weeks. I have scraps and can sew more of the ear bud pounches and the teeny tiny zipper bags too. I am not sure if I will make any more of the laptop or iPad bags at this point. Will see.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am sorry that I have been missing in action. I am trying to get myself motivated and back on track but its a bit of a hard slog. When I am travelling I will try to use my blog as my travel diary and so will be more prolific... which is great if you like travel stuff but for those looking for Sewing inspiration... yeah not so great.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The A to Z challenge was full on... but I have participated in it for 3 years now and have previously maintained by usual blogging during the challenge or resumed it straight after it. This year I did make the blocks I blogged about so that was a bit of extra pressure but I had them done well and truly before the challenge started and had the quilt mostly put together as well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The challenge was organised differently this time - you had to post your blog post link to the various forums (the challenge web page, the facebook group etc) each day - there wasn't a master list of blogs to follow. As well I posted my links to Twitter each time... so it was a bit more work. And I tried really hard to keep up visiting other blogs, which were a bit harder to visit with the absence of the master link.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So that all added more stress to the challenge of the Challenge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yet again for the Challenge ie the month of April we were travelling - its always harder to do stuff away from home so there was that too. I don't know why we always seem to travel in April... I'm sure we didn't until I started to do the Challenge. In 2015 we were in Malaysia, in 2016 we had 2 weddings and a trip to pick up our caravan in Melbourne </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This year... I went to Brisbane to go to see My Fair Lady with Fangirl (our only daughter), and stayed on. Fixit Guy (my husband) joined me and all the family gathered in the beautiful Tambourine Mountains (hinterland of Gold Coast) for Easter to celebrate Fixit Guy's 60th birthday. It was lovely for the 8 of us to be together and just hang out. We played board games and card games, talked ate, drank, went for walks, had family photos taken and generally just hung out. Our oldest son (known as The Beast) and his girlfriend (Beauty) flew up from Melbourne to spend the time with us too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The following week we spent in Brisbane, splitting our time between Fangirl's home and the Town House that our younger boys share (Known as Kombi Boy, his partner is Gamer Girl and youngest son Boyo). On the weekend I went to Supanova for the day to get an idea of what that was like. Fangirl has a stall there (that Boyo helps on- he's her minion) and in September Gamer Girl and I will share a stall at Comic Con.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The day after we went to Comic Con Fixit Guy and I drove south to Sydney and environs where we spent time visiting my siblings who live there and my mum. (I am the youngest of 8 and 6 of them live in and around Sydney). On the day of his actual birthday we went out to dinner with my siblings and their partners which was a lot of fun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We were still in Sydney at the end of April, travelling home in the first week of May.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I did do some sewing whilst away - My first project was the Labyrinth Quilt. I had it all cut out and the pieces all in little ziplock bags to make it easier. I managed to get the top assembled in my first week in Brisbane.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I'd prepped a lot of projects for my Handmade With Love stall at comic con and I sewed them whilst in Brisbane (although I didn't take them up the Mountain with us for Easter) and also whilst at a couple of places we stayed in Sydney. I visited a great quilt shop in Sydney and bought myself a few yards of fabric.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And this brings me to another reason I have been blogging. I have always enjoyed tracking my stash usage - ever since I started doing it. But I have lost track this year. I finished off some quilts and gave them away and forgot to measure them beforehand - and then I bought fabric and used it or put it away before I tracked it as well. I kept thinking I will do that... I will write it down before I forget... but I have forgotten and the sense of not doing it properly has weighed on me. Guilt is a really bad thing for creativity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Since we got back from our trip - 3 or 4 weeks now - I have done very little sewing. I seem to have lost my mojo. I have several mystery quilts/QAL that I am supposed to be participating in but I just haven't gotten my act together and got myself sorted. I have to fix some of the projects I worked on whilst away - a few mistakes and it just puts me off doing any more since I have to fix them and I can't get my act together to fix them. I have been going to Handmade with Love weekly and sewing or cutting out or doing what I am told rather than sewing any of my own projects. I have also been going up to our own patchwork group but with that I find I am going late and leaving early. But I am still going. Mostly I have been organising myself for one of the Mystery Quilts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Next week my good friend Lyndi and I are off on a 4 day quilting retreat. I am trying to get myself organised for that... need to get those QAL, Mystery quilt and projects organised to take so I can sew away. This is the first time I have taken a friend to Patch n Piece. I have been going for close on 15 years (all my quilting life) and have gotten to know people there who have become good friends but this is the first time I have taken along my own mate. It will be so fun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I haven't been idle whilst not sewing. I bought home from Sydney with me a box of my mother's negatives that one of my sisters has had for 10 years or so. She has scanned all (or is in the process of scanning all) mum's slides but wasn't up to tackling the negatives as well. About 2 weeks ago I started the job and man is it absorbing. I have scanned all the 35ml negatives and this last few days started on scanning the negatives that are older and bigger. Its super time consuming and the results aren't always the best but it is lots of fun. I have been putting the scanned, enhanced images onto facebook for my siblings and cousins and families to enjoy and they have been a source of great enjoyment and discussion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So... this was just to check in and let you know I am still here and still intend to blog... just lost my mojo for a little while. I will be trying to be more regular. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Complete Secret Quilt Project 1 - this was acutally the t'shirt quilt that I made my daughter Fangirl. I got it quilted and bound and now she has it and I can name it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Complete Secret Quilt Project 2 - this was a t'shirt quilt I was making my son ie The Beast. I got it quilted and bound as well and he now has it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Complete A to Z quilt. I got this quilted and bound before leaving for our holiday as well. It is to be a gift for a family memember too. They haven't as yet received it so won't say who it is for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Complete the A to Z Blogging challenge. This finishes today and - yay I got it done. I blogged every day in April (apart from the first 4 Sundays). I actually got mine written ahead of time which relieved much of the stress for me. I had them scheduled to go up each day and just had to go in and add the links each day to facebook, twitter and the challenge blog. I must admit I didn't quite fulfill all the duties of a participant and didn't visit as many other blogs as I had planned but hopefully over the next few weeks I will visit many more (the links are still up so should be able to do it)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Complete April Clue in Charlotte Hawks mystery. This is an almost. The last clue was putting the units together into a block and then assembling the blocks. I got the blocks done but to complete the clue was the putting together and to do that I needed some sashing in the background fabric but I didn't have any more of the background fabric left and I wasn't sure if I was going to need it or not. I planned to wait till I got home and spread them out on the design wall and work out if I needed the sashing and if so, what I could use. However I was in a fabric shop this past week and found something pretty similar so now I have fabric which I will use when I get home (no cutting mat to do it while I am away)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Complete 20 items for Handmade With Love stall. This didn't happen. I got 8 things made which was pretty good considering we were travelling for most of the month (I left home on the 6th April).</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">update stash report. (I haven't put in the fabric purchases I have made this trip nor the quilt finishes I have had or the completed messenger bags ... a bit behind)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Zenith block is the only one NOT found on Quilter's Cache. When I looked there, there was not a suitable block for me to use in this challenge so I went to my reliable brain's trust aka my Twilter's group on Facebook and told them of my dilemma and like all good brain's trusts they came to my rescue. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">There were a few other suggestions as well but this one was the best (because it had a net presence and I could link you, my lovely readers, to the pattern) One suggestion was that I design my own (ummm no) but my fall back was to get one of the Twilter's named Zina to choose a block for me that I could call Zina's Choice. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anyway I didn't need to resort to designing my own or dobbing Zina in to choose one for me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Zenith can be found <a href="http://www.patchworksquare.com/mf/zenith-quilt-block.pdf" target="_blank">here </a> on a website called Patchwork Square owned by Wendy Russell. My colour selection was very similar to the one made by Wendy. I like how it turned out very much. Its made up of a collection of flying geese, half square triangles and square in a square.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tomorrow I will show you the back of the quilt with this block in plus the finished quilt - you will have to come back again now won't you.</span>ozzypiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07751571081318370995noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965247165219183064.post-74937232075132558672017-04-29T07:00:00.000+10:002017-04-29T07:00:40.672+10:00Y is for Yankee Charm<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's identified by Marcia Hohn (who owns that website) as being from the 1930s. Its a fairly simple straight forward block made up of half square triangles, squares and rectangles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Marcia has a diagram of a quilt made from Yankee Charms with the 2 colours alternated in blocks. It looks great and has a very much a tiled floor look</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">. I am very tempted to make it... it is going to go on the One Day pile</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Its a two colour block on Quilters Cache but traditionally it was a 3 colour block.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I found a few other examples of the block of that name on the internet but which was different. Yet again we run into the situation where a block can develop variations over the year, and where the same name is applied to a variety of blocks</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: italic;">This month I'm participating in <a href="http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/" style="color: #888888;">A to Z Challenge</a>, where 100's of bloggers around the world challenge themselves to write every day for the month of April, working their way through the alphabet. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: italic;">I'm sewing a patchwork block for each letter of the alphabet.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: italic;"> Each day I will share that block and a little about the block and direct you to where you can find a tutorial for that block on the Web.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Its a fun design. This is my attempt. I love my kombi van fabric. I have used it all up now just about. Sigh.</span><br />
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ozzypiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07751571081318370995noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3965247165219183064.post-30073495059896235272017-04-26T07:00:00.000+10:002017-04-26T07:00:41.012+10:00Victoria's Star<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: italic;">This month I'm participating in <a href="http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/" style="color: #888888;">A to Z Challenge</a>, where 100's of bloggers around the world challenge themselves to write every day for the month of April, working their way through the alphabet. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: italic;">I'm sewing a patchwork block for each letter of the alphabet.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: italic;"> Each day I will share that block and a little about the block and direct you to where you can find a tutorial for that block on the Web.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The illustration on the Website of a whole quilt made from the block was gorgeous with the interlocking stars coming through in a secondary pattern. I am not sure I would be tempted to make it though as a whole paper pieced quilt would involve a lot of work removing the paper. I have made one paper pieced quilt and believe me it was a LOT of work getting all those little bits of paper out. Still ... the dramatic result just might be worth it</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is a popular block for use in making Christmas themed items such as table runners because of the star nature of the block but it is dependent on the colour choices on the whole. </span><br />
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