tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-312953172024-03-07T09:14:07.580+00:00embroidery overlapsFeaturing all kinds of areas that overlap with and give stimulus to embroidery - colours, shapes, textures, painting, quilting, the natural world . . .Barbara Cheesemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144956212968199246noreply@blogger.comBlogger355125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31295317.post-46550929127708728952017-12-26T11:39:00.001+00:002017-12-26T11:39:39.891+00:00Remerbering Durdle Door<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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testing testingBarbara Cheesemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144956212968199246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31295317.post-85953003876791152442017-12-26T11:39:00.000+00:002017-12-26T11:39:12.334+00:00IT training . . . . <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
. . . with clever daughter, trying to remember what she told me yesterday, and succeeding a little!</div>
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I have these pics saved in 'pictures' folder, but have nothing saying whose work they are. I'm not going to pretend they are my work because they are not! Unfortunately.<br />
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They need to be used as inspiration for some fresh work by me, I think that must be why I saved the pics.Barbara Cheesemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144956212968199246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31295317.post-18864675352465003022017-12-25T16:47:00.001+00:002017-12-25T16:48:48.160+00:00Happy Christmas!<div style="text-align: right;">
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Barbara Cheesemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144956212968199246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31295317.post-61368696654728875392017-08-07T15:07:00.001+01:002017-08-07T15:07:49.087+01:00Trying again . . . . . . . to put something on this blog, but finding it a bit of a mystery. How do I get pictures on in the way I want them? I used to be able to do this with very little trouble, but something seems to have changed - my memory perhaps? : )<br />
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Have been trying to put pics on, but they just won't come. I'll have to look for some help. It is very frustrating!!!!!!!!!<br />
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Now how to express this - drawing? painting? stitching. Hmm, we'll see, I hope.Barbara Cheesemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144956212968199246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31295317.post-84382696274011176432017-02-19T20:40:00.000+00:002017-02-19T20:40:38.896+00:00Holiday . . . . . . . . on Brownsea Island, in Poole harbour, this last August, Grand Family Gathering for a week in 2 National Trust cottages on the quayside. Fabulous! Warm sunny weather all week, lots of interesting things to see and places to walk. And natural items to play with artistically!<br />
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. . . . . to get going regularly with this blog again, but it is so difficult! It is driving me mad again, the pics won't go in the order I put them in, and there are some odd blue fullstops a at the beginning of the line above, underlined. What made that happen? I've not been such a nutter at writing this blog in the<br />
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This is my second attempt, the first was lost and not published. I'll be interested to see what does come up on the actual blog.<br />
It won't let me write by each pic, so a summary - the dodecahedrons were made at Christmas, to sell at a stall, but only one went. People don't realise what they are missing, interesting geometry , patterns and colours!<br />
Then there is a sunrise, fascinating streaks of colour and the contrast of dark trees.<br />
Then, some books I've made recently, simple down and up stitching, but variations in the stitching, making patterns on the spines. The covers are made from cereal packets, with painted/printed paper stuck over to cover the pictures of bowls of branflakes.<br />
That's it for this time. I shall try again soon, take some more photos of my work and nature around us here where we live.<br />
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<br />Barbara Cheesemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144956212968199246noreply@blogger.com0Western Europe52.482780222078205 -2.10937531.761585722078205 -43.417969 73.2039747220782 39.199219tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31295317.post-88469051905244134602017-02-10T11:52:00.001+00:002017-12-25T16:18:02.305+00:00Visit to Dundee <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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. . . but first a shot of a lovely Christmas cactus that is still flowering when I started writing this post. I get fascinated by the shapes, of the flowers and the trails of connected leaf sections. Need to do some drawing.<br />
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There is a high point in the city, the Law, which you can drive or walk up to enjoy a marvellous view over the city and along the Tay in both directions.</div>
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Time for some stitching - some of the latest work of our church stitching group, Threads of Faith, an altar frontal for the 'green' part of the Church of England calendar. We went out into the church grounds, collected leaves, then used them as patterns, cut from fabric and stitched them on painted strips. I did have these 2 pics in the other order but for some reason the blog changed them round and won't let me change them back! Frustrating. There must be a simple answer.</div>
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Barbara Cheesemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144956212968199246noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31295317.post-51307197580889030302016-11-30T17:37:00.002+00:002016-11-30T17:37:41.287+00:00It is such a long time . . . .. . . . . since I put something on this blog ..... time I woke up again!<br />
So here are some pics I find striking, in pattern, composition, line, texture, colour.<br />
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Sunrise, looking out of a front window of our house.<br />
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Family on the roof, helping sweep the chimney (!) and enjoying the view.<br />
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Textures of tree trunks in Kingston Lacy grounds (local National Trust estate) :<br />
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Plants in the orangerie in another such place (I've forgotten which!!!), intriguing shapes and line:<br />
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And ok, some stitching - a concertina book, each page a square padded piece, fixed together by stitching painted sticks on to the edges.<br />
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These two are the backs of the stitching, and they have come out as interesting as the fronts.<br />
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. . . . that I didn't manage to do at the latest Dorset Contemporary Quilt group that met 2 days ago, because I couldn't attend. But having read a report on the work on it at the meeting, and looked up some Youtube videos, I had a go, the first I've ever tried! It is certainly an interesting technique, and one I'd like to work on some more, probably only with paper, though there must be some way of doing it with fabric. Or maybe just draw it and colour it in????</div>
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. . . an 18" square made of torn strips painted and printed on, plus couching in a zing colour. The strips are all different fabrics, stitched together then painted with fabric paints. I've not done any printing yet but will do. I forgot it, so will see what I can fit in around the couching.</div>
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The colours are a bit stronger in reality than they look in the photos.</div>
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<br />Barbara Cheesemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144956212968199246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31295317.post-33117938371448368162015-04-29T14:55:00.001+01:002015-04-29T14:55:15.167+01:00Books that the Dorset CQ group . . .<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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First 2 pics, a warm-up exercise and a chance to try out the basic things done when making a book. Easy sizes clockwise from top left : A4 card - half A4 card - one quarter A4 (postcard here) and one third A4, and up to, say, 12 folded pieces of paper.</div>
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Moving on, using the basic technique, books with more than one 'signature' (folded bunches of pp.), - Another possibility: use an old journal quilt (or other fabric piece) for the cover.</div>
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Basic cover - A4 card, (here printed on)</div>
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or measured and cut out of a side of a cereal box, cut to size and covered with painted paper.<br />
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each of which gets stitched in one at a time, and various straightforward patterns are possible. <br />
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If the book is to be fitted into a removeable fabric book cover, then the cereal packet doesn't need any paper or paint, and the stitching can be simple as it is invisible inside the cover.<br />
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So, hopefully this will help a bit in deciding whether to try making a book, and what sort of book to go for.<br />
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<br />Barbara Cheesemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144956212968199246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31295317.post-27719657767308879322015-04-16T09:33:00.003+01:002015-04-16T09:36:21.433+01:00Traveling to . . . . . <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Early Sunday morning, when the sun was rising, there were all these plane trails in the sky. Where from? Where to? Its a mystery. And the second one down is moving.</div>
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<br />Barbara Cheesemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144956212968199246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31295317.post-18598827119011656122014-12-23T14:48:00.000+00:002014-12-23T14:48:49.544+00:00Bags and books for Christmas . . .<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I found a pattern at the Festival of Quilts for these bags, made with strips, but went for the single fabric for these presents as it is a lot quicker and I started making them a bit late. They are a sort of box substitute - put your bits and pieces for a particular job into one and carry it off with you to do it.</div>
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Here's my original effort, on the right, using strips from my leftovers collection. There is scope for a lot more interest with the strips, but the single fabrics I've used all come from Africa - the top two from Uganda and the others from Togo in West Africa - and for me that gives them a special interst all their own.<br />
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And then books, of course. These are made from pill packets, slit down one narrow side, all the flaps stuck down, and the whole covered with coloured paper, on both sides. It could be collaged, but I'm not much good at that so tend to use a large enough piece of paper I've painted and printed myself. </div>
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Pages for the signatures have to be cut to fit, which can be a bit tricky when one's mathematical skills are weak, and a tendency to do things back to front is active, but once I start I get into the swing ok. I've been trying out different styles of long stitches and arrangement of holes or slits. Weaving across plain long stitches is fun, as is the linking across the stitches, by sliding the needle under the previous stitch as you come by on the next signature.<br />
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Some packets aren't very big, as the hand shows. It's a mixture of pills, asthma inhalers, throat lozenges and, oh yes, the packets Tesco sardines are sold in! Well, omega 7 is good for you.<br />
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The print block used for the one in the hand was made by incising the pattern with a biro onto stuff like the polystyrene backing pizzas sit on. It's worth saving!</div>
<br />Barbara Cheesemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144956212968199246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31295317.post-33064745678900211812014-12-15T14:31:00.000+00:002014-12-15T14:37:00.993+00:00Using up odds and ends . . . <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
. . . trying to reduce my stash of stuff, but failing. There always seems to be even more left at the end. Reminds me of the story in the Bible of Jesus feeding 5,000 people with 5 loaves and 2 fishes and having 12 baskets left over afterwards. I wonder what they did with them?</div>
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These small bags - 3 - 4 inches - are woven using odd bits of knitting yarn and other threads of various kinds. I just can't throw even small bits away but have to try and find something to do with them. More postings to come, after Christmas probably. So watch this space as they say.</div>
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The weather has turned colder at last and husband Derek has been sawing and chopping wood for our wood burning stove. There are some interesting patterns inside the trunk that look like some artist has been drawing on them. We think silver birch, but are not sure we've remembered richt.<br />
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And red sky at morning . . . . beautiful, but what is the weather going to be like today?</div>
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<br />Barbara Cheesemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144956212968199246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31295317.post-43114379742224929892014-10-27T10:01:00.002+00:002014-10-27T10:01:32.922+00:00Fungi . . . <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Found along the paths by the trees on Upton Heath.</div>
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Made after a workshop for our church stitching group. Many thanks to Amy Langford for showing us how to do it.Barbara Cheesemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144956212968199246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31295317.post-62796618696372543102014-09-28T10:01:00.002+01:002014-09-28T10:01:34.655+01:00Made for Infinity . . .<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
. . . a contemporary quilting group I belong to, a project making use of a list of ideas/topics : dwellings, household objects, photo transfer, lutrador, thread painting, alphabets. Some of them got a bit mixed up in mine. Anyway, finished at last, so am posting the pics.</div>
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The pages are 6" square, double sided, (though the back is just what came through from the front, but it was given a bit of thought!)</div>
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Mix of hand stitching and machine.</div>
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Photo transfer of tulips from last spring, and a leaf held down on painted lutrador square by organza.<br />
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Free machine drawn flower and newspaper photo transferred with lutrador Tamil letter stuck on.<br />
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I made the first page into a cover by adding a spine. A pocket on the back holds a piece of card to stiffen it.</div>
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This and the next pair - just the stitching from the front showing on the painted fabric.</div>
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The back stitching looks good on these two I think.</div>
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Some more letters, in a font called 'Africa'. The words, from Ugandan languages, mean 'joy' and 'life' (Lugbara) and 'hope' (Luganda).<br />
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A leaf from our grapevine on lutrador and painted bondaweb with echo stitching and plastic fruit bag stuff over. And next to it the cover is folded round .<br />
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The book folded up. The cover goes round the back! Couldn't get my head round the direction, it is like getting left and right swapped!</div>
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The front, but it is going backwards.</div>
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The sticks are more visible here.</div>
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At the moment I am seized by a driving urge to get things finished off, and the last few weeks have seen several pieces of work sorted.<br />
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Now I need to be seized by an urge to keep this poor old blog up to date. Oh dear.Barbara Cheesemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144956212968199246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31295317.post-13240791885666903662014-02-27T16:21:00.000+00:002014-02-27T16:21:19.706+00:00Stitched letters and Spring flowers . . . <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
The letters - the Contemporary Quilt group has asked members to produce versions of all the letters in the group name, in order to create a new banner, any ones and as many as we want. So I decided on A, made a stencil and painted inside it, then smudged around the cut-out A, then did a cartoon-type one</div>
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(bit fuzzy this second pic, I hadn't discovered all the settings on the camera until a granddaughter who is excellent at photography showed me when she took the crocus pics following)<br />
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Becca's photos, a lovely spot of colour in the garden.<br />
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Crocuses marching on . . .<br />
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. . . and welcoming the sun.<br />
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The white edging line attracts me here - a stitching idea coming up. Such a simple thing but striking.<br />
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Ok, more bread, I seem a bit stuck on it at the moment, filling up the freezer.<br />
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We have some window boxes with anemones and tΓͺte Γ‘ tΓͺte daffodils. The former have been slowly budding and flowering for weeks now, through all the storms. It's a real cheering thing, looking out of the windows at the rain and trees bending in the wind, and these lovely colours and shapes.<br />
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Meanwhile the sea not too far from us is a bit scary . . .<br />
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Last grandchild gets her starting school quilt, a year late!!! It was posted off to Scotland and received with excitement, which was very nice.</div>
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Breadmaking. This one turned out looking like a baby elephant all curled up and sleeping, completely unintentional! But it was a very tasty wholemeal!</div>
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New hobby craze - jigsaws. 1000 pieces and not very easy.</div>
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<br />Barbara Cheesemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144956212968199246noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31295317.post-85677961162363982662014-01-12T20:56:00.002+00:002014-01-12T20:56:35.387+00:00Trying again . . .. . . to get back to regular blogging. I was so fed up with the previous layout that I didn't want to look at it again! So thought I'd start a new blog, and in fact have <a href="http://embroideryoverlaps2.blogspot.co.uk/">set one up</a>. There is one post in it and maybe now I've managed to change this blog again it will stay that way! I quite like this new look, except for the size of the heading background. I can't find how to reduce the size to a more moderate rectangle. Please can anyone out there help me?Barbara Cheesemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144956212968199246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31295317.post-52618744907538362762013-07-06T17:07:00.000+01:002013-07-06T17:07:48.259+01:00Altered books pages<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
One of the worksops I do is <em>Altered Books</em> and here are a few sample pages. Techniques include stitching pages together, or just stitching on them, sticking lace etc on a page and painting over the whole thing, punching shapes out along the edges . . .</div>
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. . . windows, and something interesting to see in them . . .</div>
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. . . spent mostly in the sun and shade of trees in the graveyard and adjoining field feeling amazed at the variety of colour size, shape, detail of flowers, leaves, grasses and lichen! And interesting reflections in the stream with the blade shaped green leaves pointing up from the water and the black silhouettes of them pointing down.</div>
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Masses of plants crammed onto the edges of the stream, varieties of grasses . . .<br />
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. . .sunny reflections as well as the dark ones . . <br />
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. . . and strange rosettes of lichen in greys and yellows.<br />
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How many different colours are there in this tomb wall?<br />
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Bright buttercups and tiny daisy shapes . . .<br />
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. . .grass,<br />
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speedwell, tiny, almost lost, but such a brilliant blue.<br />
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And spiky teazles. . .<br />
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The sun is out, look how the tulips have opened up, lovely patterns of black and yellow inside.</div>
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Red ones and streaky red/yellow ones - these two pics are of established tulips . . . . </div>
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. . . and multi-petalled ones . . .</div>
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. . . and a fringed one (never seen one of these before).</div>
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And the eco-books, so-called because they are made with a cereal packet card cover, and paper that I was going to chuck out (it's old, I don't want so much, I'll never use it all), and the stitched cover into which the book is inserted is made by free machining scraps of fabric onto a wadding-type backing, plus a lining.</div>
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When the book is full, with shopping lists, things to remember, things to do, inspiring thought for the day etc etc a fresh one can be made, with more cereal packet and chuckout paper, and inserted into the stitched cover!</div>
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If you fancy one of these and are going to the Festival of Quilts in August in Birmingham (see Twisted Thread website), go to the Tombola stand, run this year by the Contemporary Quilt group (special interest group within the Quilters' Guild) and stocked with book covers and bookwraps, and try to win one. Good luck!Barbara Cheesemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144956212968199246noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31295317.post-50236485705547624062013-05-20T21:31:00.002+01:002013-05-20T21:31:47.069+01:00Feeling nervous . . .<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
. . . about trying to do things with this new layout. The answer is, have a go. So, first, the inevitable books . . . </div>
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. . . the most important things in the world at the moment, I am told by the grandchildren, are BOOTS.</div>
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And the West Country Embroiderers in April, with Karen Head, was making a piece of felt with threads and bits decorating it, the secret of how to stop them falling off! I couldn't stay all day, because of the boot wearers visiting, so went back lunchtime and made a bit with them (and forgot to take a photo!)<br />
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Later I made another at home with a bit more stuff on it.<br />
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Closeups of the two pieces, showing the threads better.<br />
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A day out took us to West Bay and the famous Broadchurch cliff (did you see the crime serial on tv?)<br />
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I love the pebbles, tiny little ones at this end of Chesil Beach.<br />
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Lastly, the first four Contemporary Quilt Group journal quilts. This year we have to have picked a theme and must stick with it for the year. Mine is patterns from world alphabets. First I introduce myself, using letters from the Touareg orthography plus printed 'translation'.<br />
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Then a rotation of a Gujurat letter<br />
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Then repeats of a Tamil letter<br />
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And a Tibetan rotation on indigo dyed fabric.<br />
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The letters are cut out of printed and painted sheets from an old CQ newsletter and are handstitched in place on background fabrics suited to the origin of each letter.</div>
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Phew. Now let's see if it publishes properly.</div>
<br />Barbara Cheesemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144956212968199246noreply@blogger.com0