Writing In Twilight

So, my quilt is presently showing at QuiltCon, Pasadena, CA.

It didn't win any prizes, but I was hardly expecting it to. And it's been photographed quite a few times by various people, some of who've tagged me on instagram.

Most notably, it was instagrammed by the company who makes the fabric with which I made the quilt - both the front and the backing - Cotton+Steel.

It's nice to be noticed. :)

Really need to get to bed before midnight. Even if I can't stop my body waking up at 5am, maybe I can persuade my brain not to get in on the act for a couple of hours until the alarm goes off?

Also: either really unfit or getting old. Body hurts after hockey. And this is me without any physical issues! I can't imagine being one of the women dealing with, oh, knees, and ankles, and feet and wrists and things that need binding week after week after week.

I do hope it's unfit. At least I can do something about unfit.

Have 45 minutes to midnight. The race is on...

Oh, and here, have some quilt that I made over the weekend:



That's the half-finished version, I'll post a pic of the full one up when I'm done, along with an explanation of the process. (Basically: I had an assigment for a quilt exchange, I forgot about it, and had to do a rush job over the weekend.)

The Rainbow Connection
2012-2013 Quilt by the Sydney Modern Quilt Guild

The Sydney Modern Quilt Guild is raffling off it's 2012-2013 guild quilt - The Rainbow Connection!

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We now return you to your regularly-scheduled fannish programming...

Both quilts were accepted into the Sydney Craft And Quilt Fair!



You're allowed to submit two, but I figured they'd only ask for the second one if they didn't have enough submissions.

So I'm going to have three (yes, I can count) quilts in the show:

1. The Eternity quilt
2. Santorini Sun And Sky
3. The Rainbow Connection

I mean, the Rainbow Connection is not mine, but I had a hand in it, and I quilted it!

*is still kind of shocked and amazed*

Presenting...
THE SCRAP ATTACK QUILT!


Alternatively known as "Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner!"
It's the first quilt I've made without a specific colour or fabric scheme - just whatever I had to hand and what I thought was needed.

It's my first real scrap quilt!

Life is kinda quiet right now. Still applying for jobs, although it looks like they're going farther afield...again. There's a couple of months' contract in Brisvegas going. Not exactly happy about that. It would wreck church, bible study, writing group, and hockey - which is pretty much the entirety of my social life, such as it is - but if I can hold a job for three months...it's something, anyway. And it would get me back on my feet.

Think of it as working in San Francisco while living in LA.

Ah well, I'd have to get the job first.

Anyway, my first scrap quilt:


Made from the leftovers of fabrics I've used in other quilts, it's looking pretty good... Except that I feel like it needs more yellow, bright green, and hot pink. But that could just be me. Thoughts?

The top for the Gothic Summer Sampler is done! Hurrah!



I've decided that I'm going to do a round-up of the posts I'm making about my quilting activities and post them here once a week. When I remember. You can go and look at them or not, as you wish!

On the horns of a dilemma.
I won something!
WIP Wednesday #20
Crooked Summer Sampler
Dead Simple Quilt-Along - palette choices

Oh, and I finished binding sharim's wedding quilt. It's only 2 years late! *coughs*

Okay, I think that this quilt looks like a possibility for Mum's quilt.

I could knock out one of the 'star' blocks and replace it with a 'panel' block instead. Maybe two? And I have enough white-gold fabrics to make the stars and the sashing so...

Finished the next quilt! It's going to friends who got married in December 2009.

( why yes, it's late... )

( Design advice? )

Anyway, tomorrow is Writing Day because I will be out all day and Thursday will be Quilting Day, because I will be home all day.

Saturday:

Went to North Sydney Produce Markets:


I mostly buy meats from the Produce Markets - specialised meats that are hard to find elsewhere, since the local butcher doesn't always carry them.

Sorted my quilting scraps and found a bunch of batik strips left over from when I trimmed my Cathedral Windows several years ago! (I need to make another Cathedral Windows quilt, really.)

Made my first string quilt blocks with the batik strings.


Turned them into a pillow cover:


Realised the pillow cover was too small for the pillow, and used more batik strips and black fabric to make a bigger pillow cover:


Sunday

1. Went to Kazbah for their breakfast tagine. Tagine was delicious, but restaurant service was very bad.
2. Bought three winter knits for under $100.
3. Bought supplemental fabrics for quilt along, and batting for the back of my Disappearing Harvest Quilt.
4. Put together my colour scheme for the Kaleidoscope Quilt-Along Take #2.
5. Played hockey. Drew 1-1 when we probably should have won. Discovered that I play better when I'm challenged.
6. Went to church and got an unusual sermon on a non-literal interpretation of 1 Corinthians 14 - the gift of prophecy, and the gift of tongues.
7. Helped out with church dinner.
8. Cooked delicious baked ginger-and-soy marinated chicken on a bed of brussel sprouts lightly cooked in butter, garlic, and white wine. (Highly recommended meal.)