Crazy Passion and A Heart to Wear on My Sleeve

 

 

Poppy Bag

 

My BQL Challenge February Bag

 

Finished with 40 minutes of February remaining - a narrow shave! Featuring bobbin work quilting with Madeira Burmilana and appliqued additional poppies. Definitely not a shy, retiring bag.

The Mechanics of Machining

I was having a bit of a surf around Blogland and came across this amazing graphic by Material Mama, which shows how a sewing machine works to combine bobbin and needle thread. I think it's brilliant as well as strangely compulsive viewing: well worth a look. Some clever folk have managed to embed the graphic into their own blogs but I can't work out how, so I've linked it instead.

Nutmeg aka MaterialMama also links to this, which is more techy but less hypnotic. I believe these images will fascinate my family, who are used to sharing their home with sewing machines, accompanying accessories and essential stashes but also appreciate the hows as well as the whys.

In My Heart

 

Passions of mine: stitching, texture, colour, beading, glitz, textile.....

Hooking up with a Star

 

This is a hooky star: a prototype project for the village primary school. Working to the theme, "Christmas Unwrapped", the children were making decorations with recycled materials. Plastic bags cut into strips were to be prodded with blunt pencils into hessian. This one uses recycled mailing bags, as I had a small accumulation of them at home. An outline was dran onto the hessian, which was then filled with hooky/proddy. The edges were then cut back to a seam allowance whcih was folded and glued to the wrong side.

A Complementary Quiltie

 

A 5" quiltlet was made for another swap on Unlimited Textiles. I made use of a complimentary colour scheme: the orange really makes the turquoise sing. It is quite heavily stitched, kantha style, which I find meditative and calming in the execution, and of course embellished with beads as well.