October is Birthday month in our family and when we got home from mums Party we had another party to organize for my Daughters 30th
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At The Beginning of October I flew north with my sister and all our kids, our brothers flew south with their families and together with local family and friends we celebrated our Mum’s 80th Birthday.
The ribbons across the bottom and the dragonfly and butterfly are the ones that we used to decorate her cake.
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Taking Control has 2 meanings…It had been some time since I had done any stitching for which there was 2 reasons…
The first reason was that life was distracting me but I didn’t mind because I was getting a lot of good things done and felt as if I was taking control of my life.
The second reason was the black background which is much harder to design onto and thus requires more thought and takes longer but that alone wouldn’t have stopped me because I really love what I have stitched on the black background…What was stopping me is that black is difficult to stitch onto at the best of times and when you have to ware glasses it is even harder and that was stopping me from stitching, what to do, take control, cut off the rest of the black, replace it with cream and start stitching again.
The second detail is a Celtic design from a book that Sharon lent me when I was doing the designs from the covers of Cadfael novels…I altered it to fit the space I had and used it as a warm up exercise while I thought about what I wanted to stitch next…
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The Beads stitched along the join in the fabric are the beads that I bought at the quilt and craft show.
The space at the beginning of the row is where I was going to put a badge I bought at the Alice Cooper Concert but it looked to clunky so I didn’t use the badge but couldn’t bring myself to fill in the space, I wrote the name and date of the concert on the back.
The Flowers are for Spring and during spring is Florade which is Canberras Annual flower Festival.
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To get this year started I have been for a 5 day Holiday with my sister to North Queensland to visit our 2 youngest brothers and their families…We had a lovely visit and now it is time to get on with 2010, I want to catch up the stitching and blogging of my sampler by the 23rd january which will be its second anniversarry.
Last year I Blogged a group quilt, Peace in Pieces made by canberra krazy quilters, in todays details I have recorded the new variations of stitches that I did on my block in that quilt along with the information that Peace in Pieces won first prize in the group quilt section of Canberra Quilters 2009 Exhibition.
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This is another design based on a design from the cover of a Cadael cover….I was going to add more detail to this design but left it as is because I like the uncomplicated line of the pattern.
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 I have already used this design twice, I thought that it would look good on a black background and a new panel was a good opportunity to try it…so the new panel is Black…I stayed with the medieval them and did an illuminated P for the Panel number and followed that up with the design of another Cadfael cover.
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My sister and I very much enjoyed watching Master Chef Australia and I thought that their logo would look good embroidered, as it turned out after outlining the shape with stem stitch, the work had pulled in so much and every row around to fill it in was going to pull more, rather than have that happen I used acrlyic paint to fill it in.
The image also shows the hem at the bottom as this is the end of the 8th Panel
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Last year for the tour I did a detailed embroidery of a street scene, it took a long time to stitch, this year I didn’t have as much time and had to think of a simpler design, I ended up playing around with the bike design, making it a bit smaller and repeating it in different colours.
To adapt this cadfael design to my sampler I had to simplify the lines, I also turned it upside down because it looked visually better that way.
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One of my many collections is elephants, I love them and when I heard that a baby elephant had been born in Australia I couldn’t resist recording his birth on my sampler, he was named Luk chai.
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