With the Celtic Mystery Quilt, the Nearly Insane blocks, the preparation for the holidays I didn't had much time for blogging before Christmas, and there are a few things I wanted to catch up on.
Firstly, I finally received my copy of 'Quilting Wide Open Spaces' by Judi Madsen, of Green Fairy Quilts. I ordered it back in the summer, but there were delays on the printing, so I have been waiting quite a long time for it - but not as much as Judi had to wait for her first published book! The book is about quilting with a long arm quilting machine. I don't have a long arm machine, and tend to hand quilt most of my quilts, but I have always been amazed by the beautiful custom machine quilting that Judi does, as it is so neat and well thought out. I could be converted ...
Finally, some very sad news. A few days ago I found out that my favourite local quilt shop, Busy Bees in Newport, Wales, had had a serious fire during the night, and it looks like EVERYTHING has been destroyed. I can't imagine how heart-broken the owners must feel. I had just started attending a Worker Bees group there once a month, and some of the fabrics in my Celtic Solstice quilt were purchased from there, so I had only visited there quite recently. It makes you realise what an important role LQS's have in building your local sewing community.
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| 'Quilting Wide Open Spaces' by Judi Madsen |
Finally, some very sad news. A few days ago I found out that my favourite local quilt shop, Busy Bees in Newport, Wales, had had a serious fire during the night, and it looks like EVERYTHING has been destroyed. I can't imagine how heart-broken the owners must feel. I had just started attending a Worker Bees group there once a month, and some of the fabrics in my Celtic Solstice quilt were purchased from there, so I had only visited there quite recently. It makes you realise what an important role LQS's have in building your local sewing community.
so sorry to hear of the local quilt shop burning down - when you find a good meeting place you want to keep it. Maybe the owners will open in a new building? I had not thought to get Judi's book as she puts so very much quilting in her quilts that I don't think I could ever duplicate her work with hand quilting and I don't know enough by machine.
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