Re: Quilting...O/t Cherie>Mel

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Mel much to the digust of a friend of mine who is an avid hand

quilter, I do mine by machine - I just wouldn't have the patience. I

did classes in Leichhardt earlier this year at Logan's Patchworks to

learn some of the basics and do the finishing on my first quilt

(which proudly hangs above my bed). If you ring and ask for Helen, I

am sure she will be able to put you onto someone to complete UFO's.

I'm a really lazy sewer but I found that by doing this little project

at night, it kept me out of the fridge. Actually I only got into

this by accident - 18 mths ago when visiting my sister, she took me

into a little craft cottage in the country as she was interested in

taking this up. Well she spent her time supervising her 3 ankle

biters not to destroy the place and I walked out with a new quilt

project and have had all the bits for both quilts sent over from NZ,

plus I had to go and buy a new sewing machine to do a decent job so

it turned out to be an expensive project. My new quilt is for a

single bed, which I don't have, so that will probably end up

collecting dust somewhere when it is finished and I'm hand sewing

lots of words (quotes) onto that one as well. How big is your

unfinished one?

Ciao

Cherie

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> Cherie... Bev...

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> I love quilting, I love doing embroidery, but can't now because of

dodgy

> tendons in my hand. It is arthritis, but I don't like that word as

much

> as I don't like the word " diet " !!! LOL!!!

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> I have a half finished quilt that I would love to have finished, a

> fortune spent on fabrics etc. I am searching for someone who

finishes

> these ufo's (un-finished-objects as the lady at Killara calls

them). I

> am desperate to also have a silk emroidered purse finished and I am

> looking for someone to do that. If you know of anyone who does

ufo's...

> I would really appreciate getting in touch with them. I think the

quilt

> job is easy enough to finish... its a hand made one though, and the

top

> is only half done... which makes it a big job.

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> Oh well... maybe one day I will get inspired and get on with it.

Maybe

> I should just give up and finish it by machine... but it is so

fiddely.

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> Mel

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