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I look like Charles Bronson

And like one of the Olsen twins. As cool as it is to look like Albert Camus and Alfred Schnittke, it’s more fun to morph into Liv Tyler.

Change of direction

Yeah, no, I didn’t really like those quilt blocks. I decided to go with the hanging strips effect instead. Eventually I realized that I was running out of fabric – stupid seam allowances! I scrounged a few more pieces out of the cupboard and managed to piece together a single-ish quilt top. Now on to [...]

My house is for sale

This morning (at 8 AM, thank you not very much) they put the big board up in front of the house. I will spend the next few weeks living under a microscope, with the house open for inspection twice a week and gawkers pausing to look at pictures on the board. Fortunately the inside of [...]

Laundry Girl

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } After catching up a bit on household chores, I was finally able to start on Tilda’s quilt. I decided to use something like string piecing, so I’m sewing strips onto muslin [...]

Anglesea

It was Yvonne’s birthday today. She and the girls are attending a church camp this weekend, in Anglesea on the Great Ocean Road, so Tilda and I drove down to join them for the day. Tilda was very proud of herself for asking “Are we almost there?” only 3 times. We started off with the [...]

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