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Welsh Quilts

I receive the Kaffe Fassett Newsletter and in that Brandon Maybley mentioned how pleased they were with the hanging of Kaffe's latest exhibition in Wales, so I floated down the ether to have a look.  What I found was a beautiful website with lots of things to explore, including the Kaffe Fassett's exhibition and lots more.

They also spoke about a video, which I searched you tube for, and then found a link on the web page.  My maternal grandmother often told me stories about Wales that she had heard from her Welsh father. One comment was that her father had said that his mother had wonderful 'Welsh Quilts' for her children.  No one knew what that was.  Visions of fanciful quilts came to mind but this video perhaps gives a more realistic glimpse of the reality of those quilts.

 

A day doing nothing in particular

I think it was a wasted day but then it could have been a day relaxing.  I seem to have spent the day just frittering time away. 

I knitted for a bit, washed my hair, did the washing and hung it out.  Then a walk to the shops to buy a coffee and a magazine.  I spent a whole hour talking to a friend on the phone then missed the bus into town and spent 30 mins waiting for the next one.  There was a nice pair of boots in the shop window.  Too bad I can't wear them.

I was going into the Art Gallery to buy a members season pass for the Quilt Exhibition from the V&A coming next month, but they didn't have any tickets there.  So I sat in the gallery and waited for my husband, who was at French lessons, to join me for lunch.  I have to say we had a nice lunch.  I have left my camera somewhere so just have my iphone.  I'm not too good taking photos with this so most of the ones I took at the gallery went into the trash.  But this might make a nice string quilt.

Then we went to the Conservatorium of Music to hear a concert, but it had just finished.  So we caught a ferry back to the city and were going to get the city hopper home but missed that one and had to wait for the next.  So had another cup of coffee.  We got the ferry only to be put off at the next stop.  Then we stood waiting for another ferry.  It finally arrived and we got off and slowly dawdled home. 

Now I have to get dinner.  I think I will go with the relaxing day even if it was uneventful.

I'm not getting very far with my sewing.

I spent ages preparing my embroidery for my friend.  Too bad I didn't read the instructions properly.  I got nearly to the end of the first plate only to find most of it should have been stitched in one thickness of thread not two.  It took me days to pull it all out.  Now I have to start again.

There is just so much other stuff going on that I'm not finding time to stitch.  Some of the 'other stuff' is another book in the Rain Wild Chronciles series by Robin Hobb, 'Blood of Dragons".   I have made myself put it down and only read one chapter per day.  That is so hard to do.

I might start to re-read all Robin Hobb books again, and there are lots of them.  They are so exciting to read I'm sure I missed some facits of them.  It must be age.  I never re-read books but now have an urge to re-visit a lot of books I have read before.

Tears

I was checking my favourite blogs this morning, one of which is 'whip up.net', only to read that Kathreen Ricketson is dead and her partner Rob Shugg is missing at Coral Bay in Western Australia.  The children are with relatives.

I didn't know her personally but was a follower and admirer of her work.  What a tragic loss. There are moves to set up an education fund for her young children.

A new twist on an I spy quilt

I think this is a great twist on an old quilt.  It was sewn by my friend Judy on her Bernina machine.  When I first looked at it I thought it was just another I spy quilt.

But then I saw the question blocks.

I like the use of uppet and lower case letters.

And the different colours of threads used.

Those variagated threads are so effective used like this.

And a number of different variagated threads.

You could change the questions to suit your fabric and this quilt would keep a young child interested for ages.