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Looking up

It always pays to look around, especially in a strange city where you constantly need to get your bearings. Tokyo is such a vertical city, I have been doing a lot of looking up. Here, in no particular...

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Signs

I can only hope that visitors to Australia find our fascination with Japanese and other Asian scripts as amusing and delightful as I have found the signs around Tokyo. In fact all the signs are...

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Happy Life with Quilt and Stitch

I have already mentioned a couple of times that I stumbled upon a quilt show while in Tokyo. I had gone to the seventh floor of the Seibu Department Store to see their craft area. It was a full on...

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Lace and embroidery

In the lift on my way up to Floor 7 at Seibu I met these two delightful girls who were out to dinner at one of the roof top restaurants. Though they had no English and I no Japanese we got on very...

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Off to NZ

I love going to New Zealand and their Quilt Symposium that is held every two years. But I missed the last two held in Christchurch and Palmerston North. So I am doubly happy to be in Auckland in 2019,...

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Sunny skies

After a stormy night that kept all but the foolhardy or the hungry in doors, it was lovely to wake up to clear skies. The first two days were rainy so until this morning I haven’t had a chance to have...

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Devilish details

Who would have thought I would not only know how these edge treatments were executed…but also have a pretty good go at doing some for myself. Here is the general sequence of 4″ samples from my first...

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A few quilts

In between classes I have been snatching time to view the many exhibitions that are part of the Quilt Symposium. Passion and Proportion is 12 quilts by Australian and New Zealand Quilters who have been...

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Cornwall Park

A Sunday evening stroll through the sliver of Cornwall Park adjacent to the school was a pleasant way to spend the last of my time in Auckland. A kotare, the sacred kingfisher, flashed past as I walked...

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Lights, camera, action

Overnight a whole lot of trucks rumbled into the school grounds, taking over most of the space between buildings.They are not here to take away the quilts. The sign on the windscreen gives a clue.By...

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Castlemaine Botanical Gardens

A cold and blustery day has kept me indoors, at last an opportunity to write about my recent visit to these gardens. I have been through Castlemaine on countless occasions over many years, but two...

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Elphinstone weaving

At the moment this blog is in no way an accurate journal of my comings and goings. I am in catch up mode so this post relates to my Castlemaine visit a few weekends ago. The reason for this trip was a...

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Hidden

The hot northerly wind was really irritating today. After a morning in a shady part of the garden I had had enough and needed a distraction. So I drove, with air-conditioning blasting an icy breeze,...

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Same different

Local quilt shows have a certain sameness about them. They all feature quilts made by the members of the group in the past two years. These quilts are all sorts of styles and feature a wide range of...

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Coming up from behind

Way back in May I gave a friend an African violet for her birthday. I added a leaf or two from each of my violets so she could have a go at striking a whole collection. Vireya did the research and...

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Blown away

The 2019 Bonnie Hunter Mystery Quilt is about to get going. So far the fabric requirements have been released. This year she was inspired by some high jinks in a field of Texas Bluebonnets. I am not...

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Velvet, Iron, Ashes

Unlike most exhibitions, there is no one pathway or story in the current one at the State Library’s new Victoria Gallery. The name picks out a few of the objects, there are many more. It is up to the...

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Seasonal stars

Last Monday it was too cold and windy to work in the garden as I had planned. So instead I made Prairie Point Stars. Using a Moda Layer Cake “Frosted Memories” that had been in a prize pack years ago,...

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Spinning

Had my last visit to the Guild this year, to check on Summer School requirements, borrow some books and see the current exhibition. This time it is the graduating class from the Certificate of...

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Metamorphosis

First thoughts are of Primary School and the life cycle of the butterfly. Transformations in my garden Lorraine R Parker, NSW This was a popular but not the most common response to the theme of this...

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