How to post

Well I think I finally figured out that I can read my blog but I can't make a post from work, but I can from my home computer! I guess the system at work has blogger posting blocked.

I have been working on some postcards and would have put up a piccy, but its getting late and I have to get up at 5am tomorrow morning to take my homestay boy, Taigi, to the airport. So bye bye for now.....

What does BBB stand for?*

Earlier today I tried to do a post and, again, this blog didn't show up on my dashboard. But now it has. I wish I understood why these things happen. But, as someone said to me at work today, everything is mysterious to me. (now was that a compliment? No, perhaps not? I was on the computer at work when we had the conversation. Most things on the computer are mysterious to me. Oh well, I figure blogging will only improve my 'puter skills. My son has just walked past and read this post and he says not to say 'puter skills. I should say l337 h4x0r. And I've just told him I'll type dinner when I'm finished. Sheesh, must have been that 5am start I had today.)



Janice likes my 'Crazy Chaos' creation so I don't think I will chop it up. So guess what I'm going to be making tonight....

* Bloody Beta Blogger!!

Play Day

Being the usual gad about butterfly that I am I decided last night to make some post cards to use as gifts. I got out all my off-cuts of fabric with vlisofix already stuck on and had a play, putting them on a bacground piece of fabric and then ironing them into position when I had covered the background. The idea is to chop it up into postcard size pieces. But.....I kind of like it as it is. It called me its name - Crazy Chaos.

So now, do I have another mip (masterpiece in progress) or not? I'm no further forward on either the postcards or my Triple F challenge. (Well that's typical.) Do I chop it up or not? How much of a masterpiece would it be if I finished it as it is? What do I do for postcards now? Chop? Not chop? Chop? Not chop? Chop? ........

O Bother!

I tried to do a post last night and I couldn't get my blog to come up on my dashboard. So I started another blog at honey-bunch-quilting@blogspot.com thinking I would never be able to get back to this one (honeybunchquilting@blogspot.com). Today it seems that I can now get into this blog. I guess, as they say, blogger wasn't playing nice!!

Anyway I finished making the 4 flying geese borders for my Triple F Challenge. They are not sewn on yet as I have yet to choose an inner border fabric. I'm thinking about a dark green. I also have to decide what to put in the corners. The top left corner of the centre isn't very square is it? I'll have to fudge that when I sew the inner border on.

Oops

That was meant to be the Triple F, not the Tiple F, challenge. Well I suppose a tiple (or is it tipple) now and then doesn't hurt. (thanks Janice for being a very good spell checker) I also forgot to say that the participants had to use some of the fat quarter fabric each month.

In the Beginning

In the beginning.... I started blogging earlier this year when my friend Janice and I collaborated on a quilt for the Human Rights Challenge at the national Quilt Symposium in Palmerston North in January next year. You can see this blog over on http://after-the-party.blogspot.com/

I have enjoyed blogging very much and so I've decided to start my own blog about my quilt making. I've been making quilts for over 25 years and I class myself as a classic quilt maker. This means I hope that some of my quilts become classics! Well its really more like classically I start a lot of things and finish a few, every now and then.

Right now I am working on a quilt top I designed for our local club over 4 months this year. I called it the Tiple F Challenge: the Fat quarter, Four block, Four month challenge. Each participant was given a wrapped fat quarter of fabric and each month got instructions for part of the quilt. Instead of making one block of the same size each month I designed it in bits and pieces. Here they are:

First month:










Second month:









Third month:












Fourth month:









Here it is all together:

All I have to do is get the border done, layer it, quilt it, bind it, label it all befor Saturday week! I don't think so somehow, specially if I spend any more time on the 'puter.