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Exhibition and Wine evening

Hi everyone,

Here is the info for the exhibition and wine evening on Saturday 25 February at The Loft (1st floor)  in Chinatown.

Here is a map on how to get there:

Please drop me an email if you are coming.

Thanks

Marianne

Dijanne Cevaal workshop - Tapa Quilt

On Tuesday and Wednesday of this week I was at the British Club as they had quilt teacher Dijanne Cevaal from Australia visiting to run some classes.  Her website is: http://origidij.blogspot.com/

Tuesdays class was "breaking all the rules" ....something I had never had much trouble doing.  It was great being able to cut freely and not have all the points match.

Wednesdays class was "Machine Applique and machine quilting" .  This too was a great day and she also showed us how to make 3d leaves, and leaves using soluble stabiliser.

Here is a photo of my quilt from the two days classes:

Tapa Quilt (not yet finished)

Tapa Quilt (detail)

This quilt still requires more quilting but am hoping to have it finished by the end of February in time for the exhibition in Chinatown.

A Big Thank you to the ladies from the British Club for organising this and inviting us ladies from the ANZA Quilt group!

Some time ago I inherited two antique sewing machines, a hand crank machine from my husbands grandmother and a treadle machine from my husbands aunt.  Both of these machines came from Holland.  Today my mother in law and I decided to clean them both up and put them to use.

We managed to wind the spool (a long shuttle) and with the help of some crc (or wd40) got it sewing again. The stitches came out beautifully.

We tried to wind the bobbin on the Alfa but couldn't figure out how to get the winding mechanism to work.  If you know how this works please email me!

Anyway we had a full spool and tried to sew with the machine.  That was a lot harder than it looks and it kept sewing backwards.  Then my mother in law tried (an ex spinning wheeler spinner) and she managed some beautiful stitches.  I can see I need some more practice at consistant peddling before I can get this to work!  I still love the machine anyway!

Thankfully parts for these types of machines are still available in Singapore as there are still a lot of tailors shops that use these types of machines.

Well thats all from me....

Happy Quilting!

Woven quilt

Its been a while since I have been doing any sewing as we have been busy looking for a new place to live.
Yesterday and today I worked on a new quilt.  Here is the result:

Woven colour purple/red

detail

 Not quite finished yet......

Yesterday it was great to meet up with the ladies from the ANZA Quilt group again and  on Monday and Tuesday I am doing two classes at the British Club with Dijanne Cevaal.

I am really looking forward to that!

Happy Quilting!