It turned out awesome! The pattern worked just like it did in my mind and the best thing of all? My math worked! Which if anyone remembers the hexagon quilt that was supposed to be a square quilt but I got my triangles wrong they would know that math isn't really my strong suit. Throw … Continue reading The One With (Surprising) Success
Sometimes the fabric just tells you what it wants to be. Sometimes it absolutely refuses to inform you and you spend many a frustrating hours trying to get something to click. My advice when that happens? Just give up. Put it back on the shelf, let it stew in its own stubborn juices for a while. Eventually, one … Continue reading The One With Stubborn Juices
I just became the poster child for why you should always lay your quilts out before starting to sew them. I had an idea that was brilliant in my head so I sewed all the blocks together and then laid them out to get the final placement. Clue. It didn't work. It looked nothing like … Continue reading The One With A Quick Unpick
So sorry folks! It's been a couple of weeks since I've posted, but laziness was only responsible for one of those weeks (honest!) The other was WordPress, for some strange reason it just didn't want to publish my post, and then it lost it. Sigh. So here it is in a nutshell. I have a … Continue reading The One With Nothing Much Really
Hi people! I am so very, very sorry that it's been so long since I've posted. I shall blame a mixture of being sick and pure laziness. I was only sick for like a week (and what a miserable week it was), but then I just didn't feel like writing and after all, I was recovering. … Continue reading The One With Grovelling
Do you ever get that itch where you absolutely have to create that one thing or your brain just might implode? Like for real? Well, I got that feeling other week. If I didn't make something with pink and blue fabric I wasn't sure what would've happened. And it had to have a 3D effect. Yes, I … Continue reading The One With Possible Imploding
I love it when I get a really creative idea that just works out and looks cute. During a recent craft party I realized that I have stacks of New Zealand and Bali batik fabric leftover from projects. Most of the pieces are fat 1/4 and fat 1/8, not really enough left for more than … Continue reading Fabric Cupcakes
Last week I had been thinking about the post I was going to do about the zig zag quilt. I told myself 'Don't worry, you have plenty of time. You don't have to write it until Monday.' It wasn't until the end of the week that I realised that hey! It had been Monday! So if you're … Continue reading The One Where Hard Things Were Made Simple
We're here! In the Land Of The Long White Cloud, otherwise known as New Zealand. Haven't actually seen many clouds actually because its the middle of a heat wave here. The temperature got to.... brace yourself.... 30 degrees. I kid you not. Aussie girl here, coming from a place where the news don't comment on … Continue reading The One Where The Heat Is Waving
Christmas is coming!!!! To be honest, the Munchkin family doesn't really do Christmas. We do more of a big New Year's thing, and have a pretty quiet Christmas. But... seeing as how I just got given some absolutely edible Christmas fabric, I feel that some Christmas sewing is in my future 😉 While I was … Continue reading The One Where I Felt Brilliant… Until I Didn’t
