Quilting - Jacob's Ladder (lesson 2)

This one uses squares and triangles..


they say quilting is very forgiving....I surely hope so...some squares became rectangles (hope you didn't notice )

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Quilting- Nine Patch Block (lesson 1)

I started a quilting course, for beginners, in early January. There will be 9 sessions in total. In each session we learn/improve techniques by making at least one new block.

Lesson I: Nine Patch Block

Homework: a variation of the previous block, using the same techniques

more to come...

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Chicken scratch

...a type of embroidery done on gingham.
You can get beautiful results ...the final result looks like lace ....
This is my first attempt...

Do you like it? I do!

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What I have seen ... recently

from my trip posted previously...

I found all of these in a fantastic restaurant called "O Bernardo" in Boavista dos Pinheiros (near Odemira and Vila Nova de Milfontes), in Portugal.
I wanted to take everything with me...and I did...in pictures...



...a rag rug...
... a lovely couple...
(sewn by the owner of the restaurant...and she says she can't sew?!....)

...some patchwork bags...

I've seen some of these posted in A Saloia ... she calls them 'Talegos'

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Where I have been...recently

a town....





a city...
(some will argue it should be 'THE' city ;)

surely some of you will be familiar with one of these?!?!?!

(Also) handmade for me

As they say: "better late than never"

So here it is, these beautiful (Xmas) presents that my frieng G made for me.
I am such a lucky girl!!!!

(tres chic...oh la la )

( I need to make something worthy of these beautiful buttons)


(funky!!!!)

(romantic...)