Sunday, August 16, 2009

Quilt WIP

Here is a sneak peek of my quilt WIP. I am having slight reservations about it, along the lines of "why am I cutting up perfectly good fabric to sew it back together again?" and "this is the literal enactment of writing a thesis - arg!" but otherwise, I am enjoying the process.

The beautiful scissors you see are my grandmother's (they were her great aunt's before that). Heavy and authoritative, I feel like I'm continuing a tradition when I use them. Below is my dear grandma's jar of buttons, full of hundreds of spare buttons from my mum's school uniforms, jackets and shirts that have long since gone. As a child, I used to love pouring them out and running my hands through them, sorting them into colours and shapes.

8 comments:

  1. That fabric is all so cute! Love it!

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  2. Oh I would love to make a quilt. Gorgeous fabric!

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  3. Thank you! Penny and Yvonne - the patterned fabrics are from kelanifabric.com.au - excellent, reasonably priced range and free postage in Australia. The others are from my own stash - Big W, I think!

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  4. Hi Kate, love the colours you've put together. It's a long process, but well worth the effort. Can't wait to see the finished product...

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  5. lovely! i will enjoy seeing how this quilt progresses, and those animal and bicycle prints are v cute!

    happy birthday too, kate =)

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  6. such cute fabric! thanks for your comment, and it's 100% ok with me :)

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  7. Your fabric choices are *so* lovely and making me want to sew!

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  8. Ooh thank you everyone! I really should just sit down and get a few hours down on it further, but it's taking me ages to get all my other work done. Sigh. More photos soon - I promise!

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