Trips

This "trip around the world" seems to be taking a lot longer than my last trip

but I'm getting there.

How small

is too small?

 

Making a"Trip Around the World" involves a lot of cutting up strips,

sewing them together,

cutting them up a bit more,

 

a bit of unpicking,

then lots more sewing up.

At the  end of the strips are all these little bits too precious to discard.

So I do a bit more unpicking and trimming....

But these little bit of selvedge....

less than 1/4" ?

The main one

What am I working on?

Another white quilt

which is another

"trip around the world"

Trip Around the World

I know there are some of you 

 out there 

 who are getting very excited about your own big trip

But my friends

and I 

have doing our own trips around the world.

Meanwhile back home

it's harvest time!

I think I will have to make some cards

I am so pleased!

If you came over from Nat's blog I am really pleased to meet you!

Say hello!

Today I thought I might share a bit about myself:

 A few years ago I had a quilt selected by jury to be exhibited at the Tokyo Quilt Show.

What an experience!

It really ignited my interest in all things Japanese in particular their textiles.

I started collecting…..

Two years later my quilts were again juried into the Exhibition and remarkably a quilt was selected for the “Wa” section. This is for quilts of Japanese themes or fabrics. I was astounded!

For some time I have been working with these old (and not so old) fabrics from kimonos and futon covers. I unpick them, gently pulling out some one else’s stitching.

I wash them, sometimes after a good long soak, and hang them out in the sunshine.

I day dream about patterns and quilts while I’m ironing them.

Making a quilt from the fabric can be quite difficult. I have a limited colour range and different textures. Once I have started a quilt I like to always finish it though this is slow sometimes. As I am working away I get disillusioned with my abilities and decide it’s time to try something else.

But then I get close to finishing: hemming the binding and I feel the almost completed quilt …..

And I am on to planning the next one

ps. this is my 'trip around the world'

Say nothing

My mother used to say:

"When you have nothing to say,

Say nothing"