How did 5 weeks get away on me… I’ll tell you.

After my trip across the Tasman to help Mum get adjusted I just needed some time to clear my head and so I have just been quietly catching up on work (Violet the Long-Arm Machine has been working overtime) and I’ve taken part in only a fraction of my usual frenetic quilting activities.

I apologise but I just didn’t have the head space for blogging (not for writing and hardly even for reading).

But, I think I can safely say “I’m back” and just to prove it you may like to have a look here at a new website I have started with my good friend Jennifer of 5foot1 quilts.  This collaboration is something we’ve talked about for a while now and we’ve finally done it.   We’d love you to take a look and tell us what you think, but be a little kind as it’s still in its infancy.  But, in a nutshell, it’s going to be a website for documenting and providing a data base of reproduction fabrics from the 1700s and 1800s.   We’re both very excited about it.

This coming weekend I am going to Adelaide, South Australia for the inaugural Australian Machine Quilting Festival (AMQF).  I’ll leave Thursday as it takes all day to drive to Adelaide and my first class starts at 8.30 on Friday morning.

All up I’ll be doing three classes (I’ll be a student, not a teacher) and I’m very excited about it…can’t wait.

I’ll leave you with a photo of a very gorgeous fabric I have had for ‘ages’…I got it out this morning as a possible photo for the What Fabric is That? website and decided to keep it for me instead.

I hope you like it…I’ll have to do some research, this is one I can’t remember the name of.

Madder Paisley

I’m still loving those paisleys…