Monday 18 July 2011

Seven Orphans to the Burning Man

This week I am sending seven orphans off to the Burning Man! Before you call the police, read Christina's post over on a few scraps. She and her husband are planning to take a treadle sewing machine to the extraordinary sounding Burning Man Festival for what she describes as "a fun experiment in collaborative art". I like the idea of my humble British patchwork being sewn into something new and wonderful in the Nevada desert, so volunteered to make and send a few blocks. The blocks needed to be 12 inches, so I added random scraps and borders to a few orphans left over from various quilting projects. They are very random - I almost literally picked up bits and pieces of fabrics lying around my sewing area and added them :-). Hopefully they will fit the bill!

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In other quilty news, I have decided to sign up to Lily Quilts' Hexalong. I have already re-started on my hexagon scrap quilt from last summer so will carry on with this, but having seen the beautiful hexagon sampler quilt posted here, I *may* have to start a new project to make something along these lines too. This will be my main quilting project for the upcoming months, cos I am still having trouble using my sewing machine much without exacerbating my back pain. Grrrrrrr. But an excuse to hand sew isn't such a bad thing ;-)

Hexalong

Oh, and not forgetting this week's Good Things:

good things wc 11 july 2011

If you'd have asked me, I'd have said it hadn't been a very good week, but keeping this journal just goes to show me that good things are happening all the time, if only you take the time to notice them!

5 comments:

  1. Those blocks are 100% gorgeous. Lucky Christina.

    Home made Coleslaw is the best. Years and years ago I made some for a BBQ. Everyone said it was the best they'd ever tasted. Can I find the recipe now? Can I heck!

    xxx

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  2. Wow Burning Man - I remember seeing a documentary on that once, didn't know it was still around. Taking a treadle sounds great! Love the blocks you did, and your good things!

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  3. How exciting to be part of that collaborative project! Still loving your "good things" pages...someday I'll follow through and get into the habit myself!

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  4. Awesome, Viv! Oh, the things that I have heard about the whole Burning Man experience! It really must be something, and how awesome that you are not, in your own way, part of it!!

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  5. Thanks again for participating! These are all great. I really like red so the ones with red centers are my favorite!

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