tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46963007396978211222024-03-06T01:08:14.460-08:00Lizzie-in-the-loftHello, folks! I love reading other people's creative blogs - hope you enjoy mineLizzie Phttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13114774129732023408noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696300739697821122.post-1373328235079801372018-08-06T09:41:00.000-07:002018-08-06T09:41:34.519-07:00Quilts, Crafts and Salt's Mill - A Grand Day Out!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><b>- and 5 minutes away across the River Aire...</b></i></span></h3>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><b><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Salt's Mill</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Hockney Gallery</span></b><br />
<span style="color: #45818e; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">& </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">World Heritage Site</span></b></span><br />
<b><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Saltaire</span></b><br />
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<i style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-large;"><b>A Grand Day Out!</b></i><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Admission to the show £2.50</b></span><br />
<b style="color: #444444; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">includes tea/coffee & cake</b><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><b>The Yorkshire Air Ambulance &</b></i></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;">By car - route between the Quilt Show & Salt's Mill, Saltaire.</span><br /><b><span style="color: #45818e;">The Shuttle</span></b><span style="color: #444444;"> fabric shop is exactly half-way</span><br /><span style="color: #444444;"> between the two, just by the bridge over the river.</span><br /></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Walk between the Quilt Show & Saltaire <br />via the Roberts Park footbridge across the River Aire.<br /> </span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The Singer Featherweight 221K</i></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><i style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cute - definitely!</i></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">This pretty little </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sewing machine was given</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to me a year ago </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by an old friend down-sizing from a </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">huge</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Victorian semi </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to a small bungalow. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A few months before her wedding in the 1990s,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">with all his stuff, dumping s</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">everal </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">surplus-to-requirements</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">items </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a damp garden shed at the bottom of the garden</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- including h</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">is mother's precious little Featherweight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>(I'm carefully not mentioning any names here in case the </i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Featherweight Fan Club </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">seeks vengeance.)</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">When my friend moved in the following Spring and found the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">It was completely seized up, and for the next 25 years </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">it was only good for propping doors open</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When it came to me, I</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> cleaned and oiled it as best I could</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but it remained stubbornly stuck -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and though </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">people might service a Janome </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">or Bernina, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">no-one seemed interested in tackling a </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">vintage machine. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So back in the cupboard it went.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Twelve months later, I hauled it out again, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">hoping that </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">my neighbour, a</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> restorer </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of vintage</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> motorbikes, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">might take a look and tell me to stop</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">flogging a long-dead horse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just one last check on the internet before popping next door...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that's when I discovered</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Carmon and April Henry</b><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">at </span></span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="https://singer-featherweight.com/" target="_blank">singer featherweight.com</a></span></b></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Carmon and April have created a brilliant website</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">with all the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">FAQs, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">advice, and video tutorials needed to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">begin restoring and using a Singer Featherweight, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">from </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">threading the needle to </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">taking the machine apart, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">piece by piece.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With free downloads of the instruction manuals</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and a list of spares available to buy from the website,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it's a really comprehensive service.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> With Carmon's video assistance, I've removed and cleaned</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">loads of fiddly little bits and, importantly, put them all back together!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And though I still<i> </i>don't know whether some of </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the attachments</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">are for </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sewing or for taking out someone's appendix, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and i</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">t did take two of us twenty minutes to get one </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">teeny-weeny </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">screw back into its tiny hole,</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">my lovely little Featherweight is now working well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Not bad for a machine that's nearly 60 years old -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">and not bad for an owner who can give it at least a decade!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #134f5c;"><i>Many thanks, Carmon and April! </i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">but here we are, ankle-deep in the little blighters,</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and loving them!</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now I know why so many people love hexies -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">they're the ultimate stitch-on-the-go, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">stash busters</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">- and t</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">here's so much more to them than</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Grandmother's Garden!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Cutting papers was very easy with Coler's<b> </b>37.5mm </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">metal hexagon</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Take a sharp pencil and some thick paper</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">simply run the pencil round the inside of the</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">hexagon frame,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">moving the template round the paper until it's filled.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You'll need one whole hexagon for the centre of the block,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and three more hexagons cut in half to make your</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">scrappy </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">half-hexie 'twists'</span></div>
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<u style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">A helpful tip...</span></i></b></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For the centre hexagon </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I cut my calico</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">into </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3.5 inch squares, not hexagons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This made them so much easier to handle,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and any </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">excess fabric was easily trimmed down later</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The sharp corners of half-hexies can be tricky to fold, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">so try cutting your fabric with a slightly wider</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">seam allowance - it r</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">eally helps!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">With right sides together, pin </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the </span><i style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><b><u>long</u></b></i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> edge </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">of a half-hexie twist</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">to one edge of the centre hexagon, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">as shown below. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;">Don't worry! </span>Only half of your first </i></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>half-hexie will</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i> - and that's how it should be.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>It looks odd now, but all comes clear in a minute...</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Sew the patches together with tiny stitches,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">catching just </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a few threads at a time. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Pull the thread tight enough to help the stitches disappear</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">but not so tight that it puckers the fabric.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is how your patch will look when it's opened out</span></i></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Looks odd, doesn't it - but that gap will be filled!</span><br />
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<i style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Now to add the next half-hexagon...</i></h4>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">See how the pink patch fits neatly onto</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the side of the previous blue block and the calico centre?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">With right sides together, s</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">titch as before,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">making sure the points line up.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">After that it's easy to see where the next patch will go.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Fig.1. In progress</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Continue to add 'twists' to the side until</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the calico centre is surrounded, and the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">last piece tucks its tail neatly into </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the little gap left at the start.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Just stitch that little tail in place</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and - voila! - your first twisted hexagon block.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Fig.2. Finished block</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Just to say...</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You'll notice from the picture above that the twists</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">flow round the block clockwise, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">but in the one before the pieces are being added</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">counter-clockwise.</span><br />
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<b style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><i>How did that happen?</i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In fig.2 I lined up the <i><span style="color: #cc0000;">LEFT</span></i> corner of my first half-hexie twist</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">with the </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">LEFT</span></i> corner of the calico patch.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As a result, all the twists were added to the left, clockwise. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In fig.1. I lined up the <i><span style="color: #cc0000;">RIGHT</span></i> corner of the calico hexie</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and the <i><span style="color: #cc0000;">RIGHT</span></i> point of the twist, forcing</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> all the other pieces</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">to be added to the right, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">sending the flow anti-clockwise</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In a scrappy quilt I don't mind mixing the two,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">because it gives the pattern movement,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">but it may make a difference if you're</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">using a smaller range of fabric.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If in doubt, make them all turn the same way.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Coming soon - an easy border for a small hexie quilt </span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oscar Wilde famously said</span></h4>
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Not sure he was talking about quilt fabric or cupcakes,</div>
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but I know <em>exactly</em> what he means...</div>
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Just spent a very happy Saturday in Saltaire</div>
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helping <strong>Lesley O'Brien </strong>get </div>
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ready for its grand opening on</div>
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<strong>Monday June 3rd</strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #990000;">Two UFOs reached a significant stage this week -</span></em></strong><br />
<strong><em><span style="color: #990000;">this is one of them!</span></em></strong></div>
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After many months, the hand-quilting on my</div>
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<strong><span style="color: #134f5c;">ODEON</span></strong> quilt is finally complete.</div>
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My daughter's delighted - she's waited patiently</div>
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My own feelings are very mixed...</div>
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I absolutely love this quilt and don't want it to go!</div>
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The inspiration for this project was the <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4696300739697821122#editor/target=post;postID=3709230958335697926" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #134f5c;">Art Deco Odeon</span></strong></a> </div>
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of my 1950s childhood, and batik fabric seemed the only way to go.</div>
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Hadn't been a fan of batiks until I made this, </div>
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but I'm loving them now!</div>
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Electric Quilt patchwork design software and foundation piecing -<br />
a fantastic combination for creating all sorts of lovely things!<br />
Love it, love it, love it!<br />
Sounds complicated, but a bit of time playing around and<br />
getting to know the programme really helps.<br />
After a bit it all starts to come together ....<br />
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Planned this little block for Plantlife's <br />
Wildflower Meadow project<br />
on my new<span style="color: #674ea7;"> </span><a href="http://electricquilt.com/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #674ea7;">EQ7</span></strong></a> software upgrade. It needs rearranging a bit, and a border<br />
to make it the required 15cm square - and I need to be A LOT more<br />
accurate with my piecing, but it's a start.</div>
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Printed out the numbered block...<br />
EQ can number the patches automatically, or you can do it yourself</div>
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Decided to be more adventurous with colours next time I shop for scraps!</div>
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prototype ready for its border.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christmas decs are stashed, days are getting longer, bulbs are coming up - it’s time to celebrate SPRING with a little project, and this idea from </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the wild flower conservation charity <strong><span style="color: #38761d;">Plantlife</span></strong> could be just the thing.</span></div>
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Meadow” of textile</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> squares </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">celebrating </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">the role of our native wild plants in British Culture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It's open to anyone, and once completed, the “meadow” will </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">be shown at a series of exhibitions around the UK.</span></span></span><br />
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</span></span>They want 15cm squares created using any medium - sewing, knitting,<br />
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Here are a couple already submitted by Seona Anderson</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Love the jacobean black work, and the glistening beads</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em> on the sundew just bring it to life</em></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I'd love to try foundation piecing again.</span></span></span></span></div>
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It's a method of sewing fabric to a numbered paper or cloth grid<br />
and can be almost like<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> painting with </span>fabric. - great fun!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I love </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="color: #38761d;">Regina Grewe's</span></strong> foundation-pieced </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><strong><span style="color: #38761d;"><a href="http://www.reginagrewe.de/04muster/0405blumenjahr_e.html" target="_blank">‘Year of Flowers’</a></span></strong> collection</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><em>Winter aconite pattern by Regina Grewe</em></span><br />
<em><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">pieced by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/quiltexplorer/2322342817/in/photostream/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>quiltexplorer</strong></span> </a></span></em><br />
<em><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Love the fabrics & how the background fabric changes direction</span></em></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><em>Pansy pattern by Regina Grewe - </em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><em>Lovely piecing and choice of fabrics by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/quiltexplorer/2871710446/in/photostream/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>quiltexplorer</strong></span> </a></em></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do check out this link to Regina's website -</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I just love her snowdrop wall hanging </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Below is a free pattern from Regina's website<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It looks complicated, but once you've got the principle,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uaW26igygE" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #38761d;"> paper piecing made easy</span></strong></a> tutorial on YouTube</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These are a couple of little squares I did when I first started patchwork.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">The seams on the maple leaf aren't accurate and the points</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;"> are cut off - but I did love doing it. The bromeliad is a bit better...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Wonky seams, poor points - ho hum - but I still like it</em></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Check out the <span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><strong>Plantlife</strong></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> website </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for details</span><br />
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<a href="http://wildflowereurope.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>http://wildflowereurope.org</strong></span></a></div>
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<em><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Typical!</span></em></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> <strong><em> </em></strong></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">I finally get my head round Windows Vista and my laptop dies!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Once again</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> I'm up </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">to the eyes in muck and bullets,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">grappling with Windows 7</span> <span style="font-family: Arial;">and </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Microsoft Office 2010</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">T</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">hey've got a fight on their hands.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I'm determined </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">to make Windows and Office </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">do what<em><u> I</u></em> want </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">and not the other way round!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This card from my 'New Man' card range sums it up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I do feel like booting the thing into space sometimes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Life imitating art, or what!</span></div>
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Just an example --</h4>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Was a bit concerned about some emails that went AWOL in the transition</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but decided to take a positive view and opened Outlook Express thinking </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><strong>'Ooh, goody - a fresh start!'</strong></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then fourteen thousand </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">old emails</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: #990000;">Fourteen <em>THOUSAND</em></span></strong><em><strong><span style="color: #990000;">!!!</span></strong> </em> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The whole shebang was due to the default email setting</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">being </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">IMAP and not our former POP3. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you're none the wiser, join the club!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the same reason, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">they took <em>absolutely ages</em> to delete,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and I almost lost the will to live when I found them</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> in the </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">'deleted items' box and realised they had</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> to be <span style="font-family: Arial;">turfed out of there </span>too.....</span></div>
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<em><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's when I decided to log off...</span></em> </h4>
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<em><strong>...but if you're not from Yorkshire, say -</strong></em> </div>
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We celebrated <strong>Yorkshire Day</strong> in grand style this year!</div>
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Yorkshire legends!</div>
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From t' left: Hannah Hauxwell, Compo, Hardcastle, Norah Batty, an offcumden</div>
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from over t' border, and Reg Mellor, world champion ferret-legger.</div>
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That's reet grand, Reg!</div>
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We'll dig up a bit o' peat bog next year instead o' that green towel</div>
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"But ah'm goin' for t' ferret-legging record!" says Reg. </div>
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"Ah've already done five hours 'n' twenty minutes!"</div>
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"I don't care," says Norah. "It's not what we want to see when we're cooking!"</div>
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Yorkshire pudding! </div>
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"Lovely wi' Bingley bangers, mushy peas and onion gravy," </div>
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I'm vexed that some folk are supping wine. It just i'n't right."</div>
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Should've got a photo of the Yorkshire curd cheesecake</div>
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we had in t' finish-up, but I forgot.</div>
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Bet you think I'm making all this up...</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferret_legging" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></div>
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Wonder if Reg'll be defending his title in Richmond, Virginia this year?</div>
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A Glasgow University study claims that quilting is'uniquely' good for us!</div>
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Quilting, they say, provides benefits beyond those of physical </div>
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and outdoor pursuits. It stimulates creativity, lifts the spirit</div>
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brings people together, encourages friendships,<br />
and as we plan, measure and stitch, exercises lesser-used bits of <br />
the brain and brings order to our thoughts<br />
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I'm sure knitters would claim the same on all those fronts too -<br />
but, hey - let's hear it for quilting!<br />
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Saw this photo on Joan's <a href="http://ouvragesduneacadienne.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/getting-everything-ready.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;"><strong>Ouvrages d'une Acadienne</strong></span></a> blog.</div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-size: large;"><em><strong> - if you're in the area, do see it for me & take pictures!</strong></em></span></div>
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This <span style="color: #990000;"><strong>'Underground Railroad Sampler' </strong><span style="color: black;">by</span><strong> </strong></span><span style="color: black;">Eleanor Burns </span></div>
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It's thought that slaves escaping from America's southern states</div>
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were guided to freedom by signs hidden in quilts they found<br />
slung over fences or windowsills, seemingly to air. <br />
The patterns and colours were thought to hold directions and<br />
warnings to help fugitives reach the safety of Canada. </div>
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Quilts airing on a fence were a common sight, so neither the plantation<br />
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Some do question whether quilts were used in this way,</div>
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but what isn't in doubt is that a lot of people<br />
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<em><span style="color: #990000;">Finding the pattern was easy - group leader Jenny ordered it from the internet. Finding the fabric might be trickier....</span></em></h3>
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Civil War fabrics are hard to find in the UK because tastes are different. <br />
We do order from the US on the internet - but tax and postage are a killer!</div>
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I'm not a fan of buying fabric I haven't seen and touched.</div>
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Buying from a single range produced by a manufacturer</div>
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you already know seems the best way forward, but, </div>
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having said that, I do love an element of unpredictability,</div>
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and would not want to go the 'range' route every time...</div>
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Looked for UK suppliers on the internet and found a couple who<br />
had odd bits, but we struck it lucky at <a href="http://www.patchworkchicks.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;"><strong>Patchwork Chicks</strong></span></a>, <br />
just twenty miles away in Barrowford.<br />
Great to find that the girls are into the Civil War over there!</div>
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Charged with choosing the fabric, a few of us crossed <br />
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Too much to take in! Too many quilts, bags, wall-hangings...</div>
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Finished hyperventilating and got down to business.</div>
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Chose Moda's <strong><span style="color: #990000;">Warm Memories range</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #990000;">Fifteen patches of varying difficulty, </span></strong><strong><span style="color: #990000;">fifteen volunteers keen to have a go </span></strong></div>
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Fancied doing the Bear's Paw block </div>
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Loved the fabric choice, and it was so nice to make!</div>
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A number of people began searching the net for</div>
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Books about the era were passed around, including one about </div>
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activist and former slave, Harriet Tubman.</div>
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After escaping the slavery into which she was born, she rescued</div>
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more than 70 slaves using the network of antislavery activists and </div>
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safe houses known as the Underground Railroad.</div>
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It's a fascinating story - check it out on </div>
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Harriet (born Araminta) is the Minty mentioned in the notice below<br />
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I laughed when I visited Judy Butcher's <a href="http://virtualquilter.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><strong>Virtual Quilter</strong></span></a> blogspot</div>
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and read that she uses her computer to design</div>
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'way more quilts than I could make in several lifetimes'.</div>
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That makes two of us! Most of my designs will</div>
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never make it to the sewing machine - </div>
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but it's such fun playing on EQ6!</div>
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Passing round photos of the tiled frieze in St Pancras station, </div>
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a friend said, 'I can see this as a quilt - but where do I start?'</div>
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St Pancras is a spectacular London landmark. </div>
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Opened in 1868, it was recently renovated & extended</div>
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at a cost of £800 million </div>
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Look at this beautiful detail hidden in the rafters!</div>
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Set to work redesigning some of the standard EQ6 blocks.</div>
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Wanted to get the feeling of these Minton tiles</div>
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Opted for batiks, simply because they glow.</div>
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Was right out of my comfort zone in terms of pattern and colour</div>
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'It's awfully complicated,' said Jill, faintly,</div>
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'but I do like it!'</div>
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Am lost for words this week.</div>
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We returned from holiday last Monday</div>
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to hear that a dear friend had lost her only son in very tragic circumstances.</div>
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What can one say? </div>
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We're just praying that God wraps her</div>
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When my mum died, thirty-four years ago this month, her home was</div>
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packed up by Pickfords and everything - including the coal box below -</div>
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was shipped across the country to us.</div>
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Today it sits next to our coal-effect gas fire, still </div>
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full of the nutty slack my mum dug out of the </div>
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You're probably thinking I'm 'Nutty Slack' for keeping coal</div>
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But that would be the short-sighted view</div>
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'Some day,' I thought, 'that coal will come in handy' </div>
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The idea was sparked by a little flurry on Facebook -</div>
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- an hour or so later it emerged as crisp, fresh leaves.</div>
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Our plan is to break the coal up into 1-inch cubes and </div>
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of nutty slack working its magic on their tired old bones.</div>
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Loved this project from the Summer issue of </div>
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It's such a simple block, but so cleverly cut - I just had to try it.<br />
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With a few quilt projects in the pipeline, I decided to cut the pattern down<br />
and make a nine-block quilt using some of my scrap fabrics.<br />
This would give a centre layout measuring 33" x 33".<br />
Reducing the borders to 1" and 4" to suit these proportions <br />
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First job - join two pairs of 6.5" squares together...</div>
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Measure 4" either side of the centre line and cut off the two side strips.<br />
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Just a little - <em>unsponsored!</em> - plug for the <strong><em>June Tailor ruler</em></strong>...<br />
I dithered over buying one of these for ages before parting<br />
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I did a 2-minute demo at my quilt group the other day,<br />
and they ordered one for the group toolbox right away.<br />
It makes cutting strips, diamonds, triangles or hexagons so easy!<br />
Check out this YouTube link for a demo<br />
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Here they are, all sewn together.</div>
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I've got a cream crackle fabric for the 1" border and a <br />
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<em><span style="color: #990000;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">I recently heard a friend say </span> </strong></span></em></div>
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that hasn't been used or worn for a year. </div>
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'I'm a ruthless minimalist' she said.</div>
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As a born collector, I was really impressed, and wanted</div>
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because, frankly, collecting can get really silly...</div>
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Just to give you an idea -</div>
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I've brought a full carrier-bag of Belgian conkers through customs,</div>
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because they were bigger and better than ours:</div>
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I've a vast wine cork collection - and they weren't even good wines!</div>
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I have the National Collection of paper napkins.</div>
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In the mid-'90s, a dozen ornamental gourds, some corn, and a</div>
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few dozen autumn leaves came home from a holiday and </div>
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<em>fifteen</em> years later, most of them are still showing up in </div>
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Fall 'happenings' around the house.</div>
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The leaves only bit the dust last year, but the corn is fine</div>
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and the gourds got a new lease of life with a coat of acrylic paint.</div>
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My minimalist friend reluctantly agreed that these were okay </div>
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<strong><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;">I CRAFT, THEREFORE<em> </em>I COLLECT!</span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">More photos of this Tutankhamen's Tomb</span></div>
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This part of my stash looks almost modest doesn't it?</div>
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But there isn't room for a breath of air in there,</div>
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and this cupboard is just the tip of the iceberg...</div>
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If you're looking for storage, I can really recommend these IKEA </div>
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cupboards and sliding drawers - they're fantastic for organising</div>
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your fat quarters and notions.</div>
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Are Crafting and Minimalism compatible?</div>
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Not right now!</div>
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What would help is to increase the creative output </div>
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to match the collecting input. </div>
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Sorted! (well, almost...)</h3>
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I'm constantly amazed by how creative, motivated and productive</div>
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It really makes you want to branch out and try something new.</div>
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Was particularly inspired by two blogs recently -</div>
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<a href="http://quiltspluscolor.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Quilts+Color</strong></a> and <a href="http://sentimentalquilter.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><strong>A Sentimental Quilter</strong></a></div>
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Kay (<a href="http://quiltspluscolor.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Quilts+Color</a>) inspired me to clear my sewing room for action -</div>
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and Kathleen (<a href="http://sentimentalquilter.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">A Sentimental Quilter</a>) made me launch out</div>
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more boldly into scrap-matching. </div>
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Result -</h4>
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1. Fabric for a scrap quilt sorted, washed, pressed, cut out and ready to sew, </div>
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2. A lovely pile of prints unearthed for my <a href="http://lizzieintheloft.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/something-old-something-new.html" target="_blank">grandson's quilt</a>, </div>
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plus a blending border and binding fabric found at <a href="http://theskepknittingandquiltingshop.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><strong>The Skep</strong></a> </div>
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<em>Love the Skep - the girls there are great!</em> </div>
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So - a good afternoon's work. Very happy!</div>
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Just right for a little chap born in time for the Queen's Diamond</div>
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Jubilee and the London 2012 Olympics! </div>
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Plus his mum really likes these colours...</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Seems <em>months</em> - it IS months! - since Esther cut the</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I can't recommend enough having the layers </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">you're a hand-quilter with </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">bad knees or a bad back. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's worth its weight in gold!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My quilting friends offered to do a Team Baste, bless 'em,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but some of them aren't good after leaning</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> over a table, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so this seemed a very good option. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A perfect match for my quilt, or what? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's by </span><a href="http://www.etsy.com/people/ShardsofGlass" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; color: #45818e; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Shards of Glass</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and I found it on Etsy last week. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Couldn't believe how similar it was in colour and style</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>"EQ - what?"</strong></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Those who've never seen <span style="color: #990000;"><strong>Electric Quilt</strong></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> in action </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">might be interested in a brief view of how</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the programme helped me design the Odeon quilt</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next I added quarter log cabin blocks, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">inserting them right across the grid and flipping some</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Colouring the block is easy - just the touch of a button.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">EQ comes with libraries of blocks, fabrics, applique</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> patterns and basic quilt layouts, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and new fabrics are</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">added free every month. You can also download</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">For OdeonI just used library fabrics that were roughly</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Esther wears jade a lot and loves browns and creams, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so those seemed a natural starting point. I've never used batiks, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but the more I thought about the more it seemed the way to go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bought most of them at the wonderful </span><a href="http://www.webfabrics.net/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Web Fabrics</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> at</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Purcellville VA,</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and then trawled the web to match a</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> lovely gold scrap I found in my stash.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Must've looked at HUNDREDS of sites, but eventually found it at </span></div>
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<a href="http://www.batiks.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Batiks Etcetera</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> in Wytheville VA and had it shipped to the UK.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The fabrics shown in this layout are not batiks, but</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><em><strong>Meet</strong> <strong>Clarice Cliff</strong> </em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">- </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">one of the most innovative and exciting </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Her </span><span style="font-family: "verdana";">iconic 'Bizarre' ware was a big </span><span style="font-family: "verdana";">hit,</span><span style="font-family: "verdana";"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and the manufacturer,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> stunned by its success, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">pretty </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">much gave her </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Bizarre ware is still very collectable, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">but its affordable </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">price tag is a thing of the past!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the 1950s, Grandma had a clear-out and my</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> mum found</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> herself with </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">two full sets, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">an 'Autumn' design </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">dinner service,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and a lovely </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">'Jonquil' tea set </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">with iconic </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">rectangular side plates</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I loved it - so colourful and fun! - but my mum was not so fond. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When we rented a beach bungalow for a few years, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">she was </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here we are on the roof of our beach bungalow.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm top right, with my cousin in his very cute </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">knitted bathing suit. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><em><strong>January 1953</strong></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A massive storm surge hit the East Coast </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and Holland -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">many people died and much of the </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">coast was devastated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We only caught the edge, but it was still pretty scary. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The waves hitting the sea wall were huge and </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the wind</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">lifted me off my feet, so </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">my dad </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">tied me </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">to a lamppost</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">with his belt while </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">he took photos from </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the cliff top.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I survived, and he kept hold of his trousers,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">but, sadly, the photos have gone ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A day or two later, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">we went to see the damage</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The beach bungalow was a wreck - doors ripped off,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">windows gone, knee deep in sand and seaweed,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and everything we'd left there, including the Clarice Cliff,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">had been swept out to sea</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So, if there's not much 'Jonquil' about, it's because</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> most of it is at the bottom of the North sea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">eating crab sandwiches </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">off a plate</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> like this - </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">or has he sold it all on Sea-bay?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Remember Saturday matinees at the Odeon?</span> </h2>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Few of us had a TV, so matinees were a real treat. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Queueing at </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the door, the rush for </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the best seats,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Pearl & Dean adverts, ice cream, cartoons -</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it was all very exciting... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And getting chucked out when my cousin dropped </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">stink bombs in the gents was quite exciting too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Odeon design must have been burned on my brain</span><br />
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<br /><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Art Deco or what!</em></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These colours and shapes </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">show up in art deco</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">architecture, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">lighting, upholstery, glass, pottery</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so many different things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">L</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ook at these fabulous tiles from</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">photographed by Michelle of <a href="http://www.barnhouseantiques.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>Barnhouse Antiques</strong></em></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">And this art deco </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">wall light from<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> Coventry Technical College</span>,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">taken by </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/petezab/with/6876584497/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>Pete Zabulis</strong></em></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">is just so evocative of the era</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Inspiration everywhere!</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Verdana;"><em>Coming next - a <a href="http://lizzieintheloft.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/clarice-cliff-davy-jones-and-me.html" target="_blank"><strong>Clarice Cliff</strong></a> story</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Verdana;"><em>that will make you art deco fans weep...</em></span></div>
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<em><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>New grandson = new quilt</strong></span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Been seeking inspiration for a few weeks now...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When Hector was born, the family dogs</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> seemed just the thing to feature on his quilt,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> but what to do for Meyer...?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Was at a loss until a dig through the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> family archive produced this little gem...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've always loved this delightful drawing,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">created many years ago by Meyer's daddy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">the perfect </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">centre for the quilt -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but I needed three more figures</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to complete the family group </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><span style="color: #990000;">To clone or not to clone...?</span></em> </span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Decided not to clone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Decided to try doing more drawings in the same style -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">which turned out to be harder than it sounds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Drawing kid-style is difficult when you're an adult -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">we can't help making things too perfect</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fancy having a go yourself? Then try this - </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you're a Righty, get a massive felt tip,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">hold it in your LEFT hand and just go with the flow on a B-I-G sheet of paper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It feels odd, but adds lots of naivety to a drawing...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so here are a couple more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Using </span><a href="http://ww.electricquilt.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Electric Quilt</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> software </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I created basic</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then the drawings were scanned, imported into </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the programme, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and traced using </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the mouse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It took a while as I haven't used the drawing programme </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for months and it's amazing how soon we forget...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">If you're finding EQ hard to get your head round,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's the result.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's a work in progress, but I quite like it so far.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now comes the interesting bit - </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">chasing up the right fabrics at </span><a href="http://www.patchworkchicks.com/" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Patchwork Chicks</span></strong></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> ,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">plus a detour to the </span><a href="http://www.thealmainn.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><strong>Alma</strong></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> for lunch </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of course.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Have honked, hooted, coughed, sneezed and sniffled all over the weekend - but last night was the most orchestral. Even the breathing between coughing fits sounded like a geiger counter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Been shivering under a shawl I crocheted back in 1968. Glamorous it ain't - it makes me look like Whistler's Mother - but I love it at moments like this. Buster was press-ganged into modelling again as there was NO WAY anybody was going to see me wearing it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because of this cold, I haven't been able smell or taste a thing for several days. Food tastes of nothing, flowers have no scent, and I sprayed deodorant twice yesterday cos I couldn't tell whether I'd already done it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was shot and captured during the Second World War and ended up in a POW camp near Dresden, where he witnessed the bombing of the city by the Allies. Afterwards, the POWs spent weeks digging people out of the ruins. It was a terrible job and, after a time, his brain just switched off the sense of smell and taste in order to cope. It never switched on again for the rest of his life. I remember him saying that food had lost all its pleasure and the scents he'd loved were all gone. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I named this one 'Tesselations', but friend Denise described</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> it as 'Falling Leaves' - sounds right.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Had a lovely birthday - lunch at the Alma, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">an hour or two at the quilt show, tea and cakes with friends</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> at the Heritage Centre cafe, then home for</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">an evening with my lovely husband and best pal. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> If you're going to Boundary Mill, Barrowford is two minutes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">away and a trip to </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Patchwork Chicks is well worth the detour.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Heritage Centre is nearby and has a good cafe</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and a shop selling hand-made crafts. Fell for a brooch...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As Jane Austen said, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that a young man in possession</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> of a grandma, must be in receipt of a hand-knitted garment or two.' </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Seduced by the <em>very</em> cute photos of this little duffel coat by Debbie Bliss, I parted with a small fortune for the wool and got knitting. All garter stitch - easy peasy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Weeks later I I was thinking Hector would get his pension before he got his coat. Nobody told me that garter stitch takes twice as long as stocking stitch, that mistakes are harder to rectify, and any variation in tension shows up big time further down the track...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But here it is - effortlessly</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> modelled by Buster.</span></div>
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