Category Archives: Quilts
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Quilt costing to sell
Posted on August 25, 2013 by Liz in Challenges, Quilts, UncategorizedPeople often wonder when they make a quilt how to cost it to sell the first time. Lizzardsview has put this little tutorial together to show you how to cost a quilt for selling. It is very simple in the approach. So lets say I wish to sell the below quilt that I recently completed. […]
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Wooden pegs
Posted on August 24, 2013 by Liz in Quilts, UncategorizedLizzardsView recently remembered that there was a container of 20 small wooden pegs 35mm in length. These pegs had been purchased to hang Christmas cards up, but at the time had not been used. So LizzardsView thought what a good idea it would be to use them to hold the binding of a quilt in […]
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Quilting
Posted on August 10, 2013 by Liz in Quilts, UncategorizedWith the passing of Mary Ellen Hopkins, my quilt group this month have a quilt from her book Connectors Collection #4 11/12, 2000, p.26-27 ‘Double Spools’. This quilt uses Kansas Dugouts and Loose Goose. I have used red in this quilt as a dedication to Mary Ellen. Loose Goose Kansas Dugouts The Kansas Dugouts joined […]
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Mary Ellen Hopkins – Quilter
Posted on July 11, 2013 by Liz in Quilts, UncategorizedLizzardsview received the news that on the 9 July 2013 Mary Ellen Hopkins passed away after a stroke a week earlier. I had met Mary Ellen Hopkins only a couple of times in lectures held via Oatley Cottage. Mary Ellen Hopkins was a vibrant women who turned the quilt world around with her way of quilting […]
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Latest Quilt Project
Posted on May 19, 2013 by Liz in Challenges, Quilts, UncategorizedMy local quilt shop Oatley Cottage is having a stall at the 2013 Sydney Quilt Showin June and has asked the quilt groups from the shop to do a project using Tilda fabrics and a Kaye England block. My choice was to do a pillow case cover using the pillow case technique from Camille Roskelly’s […]
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Farmer’s Wife Quilt Update
Posted on March 15, 2013 by Liz in Challenges, FWSQ, Quilts, Sewing, UncategorizedLizzardsView has this week been able to do a few more blocks. I really like the fabric I am using and hope that the amount of fabric I purchased will get me to the end. These being: Block #5 Bat Wing Block #6 Big Dipper Block #7 Birds in the Air Block #8 Bouquet Block #9 Box […]
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Embroided Blocks
Posted on March 15, 2013 by Liz in Challenges, Quilts, Sewing, UncategorizedI recently have been doing some embroidery for a quilt that is a communal effort. I found this embroidery very soothing work.
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Farmer’s Wife Blocks
Posted on January 26, 2013 by Liz in FWSQ, Quilts, UncategorizedLizzardsview has just been playing with my Farmer’s Wife Quilt page as it was not impressive with the lack of uniformity of images. This has also sent LizzardsView off yet again looking at other websites belonging to people doing the Farmer’s Wife Quilt blocks. There are so many that LizzardsView likes and is impressed with their colour play the […]
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Simplify – Modern Quilts
Posted on December 26, 2012 by Liz in Quilts, UncategorizedI have attempted my first project from Simplify by Camille Roskelley
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New Year objectives
Posted on December 25, 2012 by Liz in Challenges, Knitting, Needlework, Quilts, Sewing, UncategorizedOk, Christmas Day is halfway for myself and family. I have been thinking of my New Year objectives. I am aiming to get a few more UFOs finished. The year is going to be busy with study but I am hoping to get rid of a few more UFOs and of course I am looking […]
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