Hi every one ,just a quick word to any one near or going to Boston from the 25th May through to Mid July.

There will be an exhibition of prayer flags at the Museum Fine Arts Boston.

Its been organised as a positive response to the bombings and all the pain that caused.So please support it if possible.The Vancouver modern quilt guild is organising it.

Flickr has a "To Boston With Love" group page so you can check out some of the flags that will be there.

    Cheers…

Sorry everyone but I'm so excited ,I ordered some bits and bobs late last week and they have arrived.....

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breath Cook breath .......Will try to talk sense now,  I have been lusting after a couple of experimentation kits from the thread studio in W.A. and bought some last week they arrived today .

WOWZZZZAAAAAA I'm so excited I don't know which kit to play with first.

I have a kit to learn needle felting ,some mulberry…

Prayer flags are made so that the words inscribed on them or the energy placed in them will travel on the winds ......

I have made prayer/memorial flags on and off for a long time now,though never shown any here till now .Last month was one hell of a month through out the world and several events inspired me to make some flags and I'm sharing a few with you all.

My flags are made purely from the gut ,so to speak.I gather from my stash anything that catches my eye when I decide…

USA                                                           UK

slip stitch = sl.st                                      single crochet or slip stitch

double crochet = dc                                treble

single crochet = sc                                 double crochet

half double crochet = hdc                      half treble

crochet needle usa 7, uk 2,5 cotton no 8

Make a chain of 45 sl.st

1st row:1 dc in the 5th sl.st from…

Morning all,

My strawberry sunday pin cushion is the result of my decision that the world needs more love and laughter in it.I love wild tea cosies and hats but there are plenty of makers out there ,but after a search realised there were not many wild pin cushion…

I'm so excited. I have to share!

I felt the urge to go wander in Goodwill, today. I was hoping, expecting to find something I could use in my garden. I was getting disappointed, because nothing was speaking to me, but then I remembered that I had found some fabric there once, so I went to that section.

There were several bags of jumbled yarns among the crafts people had given up on. I was going to pass them up, but then I saw what looked like a doily, and I thought with the…

I received this book over the week end and I am so delighted to have it. It makes  all those colors of dmc floss make sense. It sets out groups of DMC floss in groups of colors. I have been reading for two days and just can't put it down. For anyone who is unsure about color when it comes  embroidery this really brings it all together.I hope this info is good for someone out there in the stitching world Hugs To all Elaine

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Back home after a beautiful couple of days resting in the Bunya Mts ,it is such a special place.

We were in  a house this time and it was luxurious ,our only complaint was we didn't get to spend as much time as we would have liked on the rockers on the front patio.There were 2 grandpa and 2 grandma rockers and they were in…

Hi all,

had to blog about our first sunny day in I don't know how long.Its been so good to sit out in the sunshine ,at morning tea time we had 3 house holds out on their front patios enjoying smoko and sunshine.

Well off to organise lunch ,then to sew.House work is done for the day.

Cheers Faye 

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