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hand embroidery, a video chat

Continuing on from my previous post……

Once I chose my fabrics I was ready to start.  Time was running out and I needed help.  I have 3 friends – the Zoombas – we’ve been meeting via Zoom on most Saturdays through our many lockdowns here in Melbourne.  All 3 are excellent at applique. 

I prepared 4 kits for each of them except for the vase fabrics. I wanted to put the blocks together and then decide on what fabrics to use for the vases. 

Needless to say the Zoombas did an excellent job and the blocks came back beautifully done.  Thanks ...

Have you ever wanted to do a workshop with me?  Well….. now you can!

I will be offering two clamshell quilt virtual workshops, one for Europe and one for the US.

Europe:

Wednesday 20 January 2021 at 8:00pm Melbourne time.

Wednesday 20 January 2021 between 9am and 11am European time.

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USA:

Sunday 21 February 2021 at 8:00am – Melbourne time

Saturday 20 February 2021 at 4:00pm EST

Saturday 20 February 2021 at 1:00pm PST

Saturday 20 February 2021 at 3:00PM CST

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This virtual workshop ...

  Together we welcome in 2020 with a review of 2019 and a glance at what may come to be in the months ahead.

Black Licorice is one of my new patterns. I’m doing so many of them together that I sometimes lose track of them. I do concentrate on new BOMs as they are most popular with shops.

I designed Black Licorice because of my (new) love for shot cottons. Here in Australia we get a beautiful range of shot cottons. And what goes best with so much colour? Black and white fabric of course. Black Licorice is a small quilt – only 34 inch square. The border is quite deceiving. Its actually two saw tooth borders done on green shot ...