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Birds in the garden
While we were having lunch on Sunday I suddenly spotted an unusual bird on the garden fence so I went to get my camera so that I could get some close up pictures to identify it. We’re approaching the...
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New hornbill wall hanging
Over the past couple of weeks I have been working on a new hornbill design for a wall hanging, based on this photo which I took a while ago. I imported the photo into EQ6 and then because of the...
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Toucan wall hanging
My blog has been rather neglected over the past few weeks as I have been so busy, but I haven’t been neglecting my sewing and this is a project I made several weeks ago for a friend. This is a...
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Batik inspired birds and flowers
A little while ago I got this piece of applique out to show some friends and I was suddenly inspired to get it finished. I actually started work on this design five years ago and have taken it out form...
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Birds and Flowers_2
It’s been far too long since I updated my blog and one of my New Year’s resolutions for this year is to write more regularly, so I hope I can stick to it. New year, new project and I have just started...
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New Hornbill design for 2013
While waiting for the threads I’ve ordered for my Birds and Flowers quilt I started work on a new hornbill design. To start with I made a sketch from the photo I’d taken in a friend’s garden, leaving...
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Birds and Flowers stitched
After many hours work I have finally finished machine stitching all the bird and flower applique. Here are a few photos showing some details. I used mostly Aurfil 50wt thread for the applique as I...
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“Tumbling Birds”– The finished quilt
After several months and many, many hours of work my “Birds and Flowers” quilt is finally finished and hopefully on its way to Birmingham (or maybe even already there). Virtually all the applique was...
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