More animal feet

I’ve been working away on the applique feet. I still wish I knew how other people get their curves so nice and smooth, but as Emily said yesterday, it’s a rustic quilt. I like that phrase.
Here’s a picture a leopard’s foot. I am particularly pleased with the applique on this one. The second block [...]

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A night on the town

We went into Cape Town and saw a play last night. On Monday nights the theatre has a special deal, patrons get dinner and a show. The cost on Monday nights for the dinner and show is cheaper than the cost of the show alone on other days of the week.
We saw Bonhoeffer. Dietrich Bonhoeffer [...]

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Hmmm…

I don’t usually post stuff like this, but given the background of my blog, I thought this was pretty accurate.
Your Blog Should Be Purple
You’re an expressive, offbeat blogger who tends to write about anything and everything.
You tend to set blogging trends, and you’re the most likely to write your [...]

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By Jove, I think she’s got it! (almost)

The applique is coming along. I’ve had a bit of a breakthough and I’m getting progressively happier with each piece. Though it is messing with my perfectionist streak just a little.
This is the giraffe’s footprint. I love this hand-dyed material. This was traditional freezer paper needleturn applique.
To do the zebra’s hoof I sewed vylene [...]

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Two quilt blocks

I did another quilt block last night, while watching the final episode of The Apprentice – Street Smarts v Book Smarts. Thursday nights are about to become non-tv nights again. Funnily, I never watched ‘the Don’ while I was in Australia.
Here they are hanging on my design wall (really just a piece of fabric I [...]

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If you only see one movie this year…

The heat here is continuing unabated. Yesterday Cape Town was 35 degrees C (about 85F). After work we went to the big mall nearby to watch a movie. We haven’t been to this cinema before as it is twice the price of the one we usually go to, but it was close and the air-conditioning [...]

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Placemats

The placemats are finished. I’m quite pleased with how they turned out, but not ecstatic. I’m thinking that placemats may make good Christmas presents this year: light, flat, easy to post, not so expensive that I’ll be devastated if they get stolen…
I will be binding the next lot though, no more ‘enveloping’ for me.
Now [...]

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Heat wave

The weekend was very, very hot. All of my plans for finishing the placemats and finishing my latest charity knit came to nought.
Instead I spent the weekend lying on the couch watching movies, reading and trying to stay cool.
So instead of Finished Objects to show, I’ll update my list of books I’ve read this [...]

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One down…

I finished one of the placemats last night. More would have gotten done, but I also made MIL a curtain for her new room and did some charity knitting.I will definitely be adding binding to the ones I do for myself. But overall it’s turned out ok. I managed to quilt it stitch in the [...]

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Relief…

Yesterday as I was about to leave work an email popped into my in-box from Diane telling me that her package had arrived safely – only a month after the due date. Given that the last thing I received here had a gift stolen out of it (thank you South Africa Post!) I’m relieved that [...]

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