Corris Uchaf, Wales
Posts tagged quilting
Mobile – we come to you
Oct 16th
Over the winter of 2010 – 2011 we shall be mobile. This means we can take the shop to you and/or your group in and around Wales
You decide what you want and when, and we’ll bring the shop to you
Just let us know please email or phone 01654 761656
Patience
Aug 17th
Perhaps that should read Patience and Trigonometry. And this is not a new card game with triangular cards.
I am creating patchwork squares for a new quilt top. These squares are made up in part of triangles. These I overcut. This is far better than undercutting, but a pain in the proverbial I’d rather do without. It will mean unpicking, re-cutting and re-stitching all the affected fabrics.
This only came to light when I had completed the squares and was about to join them them all up.
I am also aware of the old adage – Measure Twice & Cut Once.
So, either I was too impatient when drawing out the designs and calculating the angles to give me all my measurements or else I need to revise Pythagoras and his cunning plans. But I know it’ll work out fine in the end ….
Which leads me to my new favourite comic strip of the day which seems to sum up this quilt.
Patience - from Mimi & Eunice
Patience – from Mimi & Eunice – by Nina Paley (with grateful Thanks)
Cutting Fabric
Aug 14th
As we all know, the design process for a new quilt not only involves the creation of shapes in coloured fabrics with stitching patterns, but also includes the templates for the cut fabric.
This process is perhaps the most enjoyable for me, followed closed by the creation process where you sew the top together and then fill, back and quilt it all together
But, age seems to be catching up with me. The middle process (the actual cutting of the fabrics into shapes and sizes including seam allowance) now leaves me cold and sore.
Not just cold, but weary and with back problems due to leaning over my worktop and slicing or scissoring the bits of fabrics I want from my stash. Is “scissoring a word?.
I need a cutting fairy (rather like a tooth fairy in a way) who will take my sketches and colour charts and will just, as if by magic, cut the fabrics for me so that I can enter the shop one morning having left the designs overnight, and hey-presto everything is ready for sewing. Is this just too much to ask?
End of my back problems – but start of old age illusions I guess … Oh well, back to my roller blade …
The Quilt Index
Aug 13th
Found this when looking for something else, just as you do.
It seems such a good idea as well, catalogue properly all quilts that it can, together with details of the quilter and where it is currently housed.
Not sure I can say much more as a whole waft of the website is about copyright – I’m not even sure if I should be mentioning at all.
Shame as I was really sold on the whole concept.
Ollie of Ollie’s Quilt
Aug 8th
Just stumbled upon a picture of the Heroine of our tale as discussed here.
So here she is (with just a hint of her work in progress at the bottom of the picture) although looking very much less animated than usual probably because of the camera!
Ladies and Gentlemen – may I present Ollie of Ollie’s Quilt
OLLIE
The Quilt Association
Aug 8th
Just in case your diary has taken leave of absence without your permission, a reminder:-
The Summer Quilt Show
12-July – 11-Sept 2010
Minerva Arts Centre
Llanidloes
Powys
Wales
UK
As there is nowhere in earth you would rather be than in mid Wales during any August and September, this is a quilting exhibition that just cannot be missed for the quality of work, imagination, style, presentation and an opportunity to explore and share knowledge with all the folk of the Quilt Association.
Plus Llanidloes is a rather charming Welsh village with a substantial history and wondrous scenery all around to be enjoyed however you travel.
Stitched: art quilter documentary
Aug 7th
A film about quilting? Or perhaps more pertinently a film about quilting against time, against tradition and against other adverse circumstances?
We can all identify with at least two of these and maybe the other as well.
Stitched: art quilter documentary.
Should be an eye-opener, I hope to catch the full version when released, but the site has a clip available….
The Festival of Quilts @ The NEC
Aug 5th
Running at the NEC, Birmingham from 19 – 22 August 2010 this is an exhibition not to be missed by any lover of textiles, sewing, vibrant colours and textures, and audacious imagination for this must be Europe’s leading quilting event of 2010
Workshops, competitions, amateur and professional works showcased, together with the stalls of scores of suppliers there is something to keep you occupied and entertained all day long.
Unlike 2009 I have no works in the competition, but I intend going as a spectator this year and hopefully I’ll see some of my friends and customers there ….
