tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89513142912943158092024-03-19T01:09:32.489-07:00Sharon PedersonQuilting Instructor, author, DVD publisherSharon Pedersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04257496857467228934noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8951314291294315809.post-2190326770288716652011-12-07T10:47:00.000-08:002011-12-07T10:47:11.048-08:00Aurifil Designer of the Month<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Along with my business partner at Nine Patch Media - Elizabeth Phillips - I've put on a lot of miles this year. Since my last post we have been to the APWQ Quilt Show in Tacoma where the Roses of Remembrance quilt won anHonourable Mention Award, a two week tour to China with 30 other enthusiastic travelers, Houston, for the annual International Quilt Market & Festival, and on my own I spent 5 busy days teaching in Florida. Even listing it all make me tired. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I guess what I'm trying to say is - even though I seem to have been uncommunicative here, it hasn't all been lying around eating chocolates and reading trashy novels. (Although I have to admit there has been a bit of that this month.) </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div>Other exciting news from Nine Patch Media includes our new association with Lyn Kenny from Australia. Lyn is an extraordinary machine embroiderer and digitizer and we have collaborated with her to produce two new embroidery collections - Midnight Roses and Traditions. You must visit Lyn's website to see her other exciting designs - they have given us so many ideas for projects my 'to do' list has grown enormously. Please understand my 'to do' list contains the things I really want 'to do'.</div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
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</div><div>With best wishes for a happy holiday season and a prosperous, healthy, and happy New Year. </div></span></div></span></div></div>Sharon Pedersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04257496857467228934noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8951314291294315809.post-35557064266244068692011-06-02T14:13:00.000-07:002011-06-02T14:13:56.944-07:00The Shopping Channel<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Hi friends,</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;"> Ask me if I had fun doing The Shopping Channel for AccuQuilt. - Live TV is very different from filming something that can be edited - and it's a good thing that adrenalin keeps you 'on edge' as it was a very long day. My first segment was on at 8:00 a.m. and I had to be in the studio a minimum of an hour before (being a bit nervous I got there at 5:30 a.m.) and my last one was at 7:00 p.m. - which was followed by taking down the set. I got back to my hotel at about 9:30 p.m., packed, requested a 6:00 a.m. wake up call and fell into bed. I shut off the light and to quote a family friend, I was asleep before the light went out. </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Another adventure starts tomorrow - my 50th High School Reunion. More about that later. </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">I bumped into Brenda Miller and her friend, Lisa Hill in the airport in SLC and we shared a shuttle to our hotel. Brenda and Lisa got to witness the hilarious sight of me chasing the aforementioned shuttle as it drove away from our hotel with one of our suitcases still on top. The driver had removed the bungee cords holding the bag down, then went to the back of the van to take the other bags out. After emptying the back he assumed he was finished so he started to drive away. Fortunately I saw the bag on top and yelled at the driver - he didn't hear me - so I started running - and screaming - after him. When he got to the curb he had to stop or I'd never have caught him. After I banged on the rear window he got out and I just pointed to the top of his van. I would love to have a video of the whole thing - it was amusing after the fact. At the time all I could think of was 'will he notice it if it falls off? The people coming out of the hotel who witnessed the whole thing gave me a round of applause for my efforts. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">A much more relaxed meeting took place with Brenda and Lisa in Brenda's booth at Market. That's Brenda on the right </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">and the name of her company is Among Brenda's Quilts. Brenda is from Strathroy, ON.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><br />
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</span></div><div>As many of you know, Elizabeth and I travel twice a year to see all the new stuff available at Quilt Market - sometimes we are showing new stuff too. Our newest DVD, Dorothy's Sampler, was introduced in Salt Lake City - the location of this Spring's Market, and here I am doing a demo of the Drunkard's Path block from it.</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">This required being able to shoot video and send it electronically to The Quilt Show and Elizabeth found this amazing gizmo - a steady cam - that allowed her to use her iPhone and not get the wobblies that you so often see with hand held video cameras. In the below photo we are taking advantage of two comfortable chairs in our friend, Jackie Robinson's booth, and you might be able to see the device I'm talking about - Elizabeth is holding it.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">As you can imagine, every techie fan wanted to see what it was and find out how to get one. Elizabeth joked that she had never had so much attention in her life - but it wasn't her they were interested in, just her 'equipment'. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Market is always interesting, exhausting, but a 'not to be missed' event and this one was particularly fun. To see our interviews please visit</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.thequiltshow.com/">www.thequiltshow.com</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">and click on Daily Blog. I got to talk to some 'legends' in the industry and also some exciting 'up and comers' that I know we'll be seeing more of.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">One of the biggest joys of attending Market is getting together with old friends. Often it is the only chance we get to see each other - however briefly.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Fellow teacher and author, Charlotte Warr Andersen and I shared a hug, and it was fun to run into Val Jensen and Leslie Burtch from Quilty Pleasures Quilt Shop in Ottawa.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0ndaqSxovgMLFfZUNvPKvqXN7TrDzxmEjMTO9wCdEGKORUVGtu2N7p5BtVWl2o9y7ai7QRJ8m3OXD5wle44fBTW3SBauixZ4-eTtxwloMEbzQ01cxOd2uamdZ5Zj3hASNZnWM_PZmJYw/s1600/DSC00379.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0ndaqSxovgMLFfZUNvPKvqXN7TrDzxmEjMTO9wCdEGKORUVGtu2N7p5BtVWl2o9y7ai7QRJ8m3OXD5wle44fBTW3SBauixZ4-eTtxwloMEbzQ01cxOd2uamdZ5Zj3hASNZnWM_PZmJYw/s200/DSC00379.JPG" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCBEN7rUj0uUA4Zc50tuNrjkyurtHU9bYcGllO9xA2bp573XC6AZyXarkfyIrkcMSYMZ8wIhPkHmz6KHXGLjtSjatB-Z9h2QxW6H7kIF4sZdDo39G7-j76rNafKWx2O3W0dCjbGBQii4M/s1600/DSC00380.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCBEN7rUj0uUA4Zc50tuNrjkyurtHU9bYcGllO9xA2bp573XC6AZyXarkfyIrkcMSYMZ8wIhPkHmz6KHXGLjtSjatB-Z9h2QxW6H7kIF4sZdDo39G7-j76rNafKWx2O3W0dCjbGBQii4M/s200/DSC00380.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
</span></div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">When we weren't filming for The Quilt Show it seemed I still ended up in front of a camera - here Jodie Davis from QNN and I are setting up a shot in the Aurifil Thread booth. I have a new Sashiko Thread collection with Aurifil and I appear to be showing Jodie where to focus the camera to get a close up.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><br />
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</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">I'm sure most of you have been at a book signing at one time or another, but have you ever been at a 'thread signing'. I was highly amused when this lovely lady approached me with a pen and asked me to sign her box of my Sashiko collection threads. By the way, they are the most gorgeous 12wt threads and would look good in other applications as well as Sashiko.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">As you can imagine, all this walking around filming, etc. requires you to keep your strength up and what better way than with ice cream. Well, it wasn't really ice cream - but raspberry sorbet is nothing to be spurned - and it was the perfect pick me up when I came across it in this booth.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxu115SaZxlvJas5U29tOjnm5fh4Ms9O2izqwhLDADPOfrfZkmeY3UsmhlqpeYkRJ4QsyQ2gJb0R0ZCsRPfYUyFOgM98hRyjWfDiX7uHXUyFX4KrK2Hap2anMOEpORNL7s2fPqFY34cik/s1600/DSC00371.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxu115SaZxlvJas5U29tOjnm5fh4Ms9O2izqwhLDADPOfrfZkmeY3UsmhlqpeYkRJ4QsyQ2gJb0R0ZCsRPfYUyFOgM98hRyjWfDiX7uHXUyFX4KrK2Hap2anMOEpORNL7s2fPqFY34cik/s320/DSC00371.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">What would a quilt market be without quilts. This was my absolute favorite and when I saw the picture of it in the show catalogue I was convinced it was a photograph of a dog. When we found it in the show I got up close and was absolutely amazed to discover it was all thread. The artist, Barbara Barrick McKie certainly knows her way around a sewing machine. The title - "I'm watching you" pretty much sums it up.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
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</div></span>Sharon Pedersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04257496857467228934noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8951314291294315809.post-11308885901081000442011-05-07T15:05:00.000-07:002011-05-07T15:05:38.677-07:003D Sunflower Block Pattern<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hi Quilting Friends,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As promised the link for the instructions for the 3D Sunflower Block is below.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The title of my book and DVD, Machine Appliqué for the Terrified Quilter really says it all. For those of you who have been afraid to try appliqué, I have included some photos of my "class" with Elizabeth's grandchildren, Sonny and Greta, as they put their </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mother's Day</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Rose of Sharon block together. I have to tell you, it really is child's play.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><blockquote type="cite"><div>It's been great fun participating in Volume 3 of Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks and forgive me if you've heard this before - but I'm delighted to see my block on the cover !!! Of course with all the work I have been doing with Rose of Sharon blocks, mine had to be a Rose of Sharon variation. With just three simple shapes (a blossom, a leaf, and a circle) and various sizes of those three shapes you can make any number of variations - and the block can be any size you want. </div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div>If I were you I'd be first in line to get your copy of this issue - it's going to go quickly. It will appear by May 10th and after you've visited all the other stops on the Blog Tour I know you will want your very own copy. </div></blockquote><br />
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<blockquote type="cite"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'm still playing with Rose of Sharon ideas and I wanted to share my sunflower block (who says you can't make a sunflower with rose shapes? ) While I was fooling around with this idea, it occurred to me that having some three dimensional petals would look good, so I fused two pieces of the same fabric together and cut them on my AccuQuilt Go cutter, then positioned them over a layer of already fused petals. I think it's fun and certainly 'robust'. </div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>While I was making sunflowers Elizabeth's grandchildren, Sonny and Greta, were making fabric pictures for Mother's day. They love the AccuQuilt shapes from the Rose of Sharon die and they are fearless in their approach to their creations! Hmmm....now I know who to call in when I need help making blocks. </div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOtJgQsoejOQBwyytt6oh7W14KmEhpJrGc9jbb1pArPWzNxw4qkFJnaS8m1xT5hN3axPrantfZ684VLcjg3aGZZz6zLHJA86vh0ryg-nkiXl7weD4YsbFB-vQQ8j7zl8Zf9eGBcVU9Sg4/s1600/DSCN7049.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOtJgQsoejOQBwyytt6oh7W14KmEhpJrGc9jbb1pArPWzNxw4qkFJnaS8m1xT5hN3axPrantfZ684VLcjg3aGZZz6zLHJA86vh0ryg-nkiXl7weD4YsbFB-vQQ8j7zl8Zf9eGBcVU9Sg4/s320/DSCN7049.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<blockquote type="cite"><div>Oh Sonny.....Oh Greta......want to come and play at my house?</div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><br />
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My favourite part of any guild meeting is Show and Tell, and we saw some great quilts I'd like to share with you. Elizabeth was the designated photographer and the pictures just arrived so I got to enjoy seeing the quilts all over again. Elizabeth - my partner at Nine Patch Media - and I were invited to show the Rose of Sharon quilts and it was a particular pleasure for me as I was present at the inaugural meeting of the guild 10 or 12 years ago. As their name implies, they are a very friendly bunch and I always enjoy visiting.<br />
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As it was the February meeting there was a Valentine theme to Show and Tell - which I'm sure you'll enjoy<br />
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We had such fun showing our Campbell River friends all of the Rose of Sharon goodies, the book, DVD, stencils, gift cards, etc. etc. and I hope they enjoyed seeing them as much as we enjoyed the terrific Show and Tell.<br />
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I hope you enjoy it too.Sharon Pedersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04257496857467228934noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8951314291294315809.post-73547301228365696292011-02-17T13:28:00.000-08:002011-02-17T13:28:36.187-08:00What do you do when it looks like this outside?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDGmLqzB69aYumyS46VY9Td8VaDEJUa8Ih2C0zXeNOgAiIl2zgmImzzvnWjvbHiLkHU-l-UcuFdXMn-_khoMoQH6kAbdn68PUpZxp8wt9xrLyGDqoSGXPAID5rJJLIb_9jt5BwvWNHudo/s1600/DSC00105.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDGmLqzB69aYumyS46VY9Td8VaDEJUa8Ih2C0zXeNOgAiIl2zgmImzzvnWjvbHiLkHU-l-UcuFdXMn-_khoMoQH6kAbdn68PUpZxp8wt9xrLyGDqoSGXPAID5rJJLIb_9jt5BwvWNHudo/s320/DSC00105.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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Yesterday I had planned a mini-holiday in Vancouver with my best friend, Kathleen. Getting there involves an hour and a half drive to the ferry terminal and then an hour and a half ferry trip from Vancouver Island (where I live) to Vancouver. We woke up to this - and for those of you who live where you have 'real' snow it probably looks pretty benign. However, just getting down the hill I live on to the highway at the bottom is dangerous when we get snow. Those tennis ball sized snow flakes where the biggest I'd ever seen and if it wasn't such a pain in the neck getting around I wouldn't mind because it is so beautiful.<br />
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I know that as an 'adult' I'm not supposed to get upset when I don't get what I want - when I want it - but I was really looking forward to both visiting Vancouver and spending time with my BF so switching from 'mini-holiday' mode to work mode just wasn't happening. What to do? I did the next best thing - something I love to do and don't often take more than the bare minimum of time doing.<br />
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The lovely dark round one is our all-time favourite - it's the one we have for every day. It's full of seeds (sesame, poppy, sunflower, and pumpkin) and it both toasts and freezes well.<br />
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The third one was a first (and might not be repeated), it has wild rice in it and somehow the combination of wheat flour and wild rice just doesn't quite do it for me. Fortunately, my husband loves them all so I don't have to worry about any going to waste.<br />
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Today the sun is shining and the snow is melting, but our little window of opportunity for the trip to Vancouver has passed so I'll just have to console myself eating lovely home made bread.<br />
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This may have serious consequences when I weigh in on Saturday.Sharon Pedersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04257496857467228934noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8951314291294315809.post-14005367584688782102011-01-08T15:55:00.000-08:002011-01-08T15:55:48.979-08:00More Roses To Come<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkyR8KvEehmiSqijtdo_g3GyGHUcq8Sxb6-qgU_p7iOEuAarKlfObwFyMSYRQEo2bQdkUVMETkRxAJt1qqGfMatNQqZ44S-B7LoiSu2IauWZ9OUFt5e5090FQRmqHFKSeqALlvQoVcrkc/s1600/DSCN6853.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkyR8KvEehmiSqijtdo_g3GyGHUcq8Sxb6-qgU_p7iOEuAarKlfObwFyMSYRQEo2bQdkUVMETkRxAJt1qqGfMatNQqZ44S-B7LoiSu2IauWZ9OUFt5e5090FQRmqHFKSeqALlvQoVcrkc/s1600/DSCN6853.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkyR8KvEehmiSqijtdo_g3GyGHUcq8Sxb6-qgU_p7iOEuAarKlfObwFyMSYRQEo2bQdkUVMETkRxAJt1qqGfMatNQqZ44S-B7LoiSu2IauWZ9OUFt5e5090FQRmqHFKSeqALlvQoVcrkc/s320/DSCN6853.jpg" width="240" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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With the gorgeous palette of fabrics from Island Batik and a set of matching threads from Aurifil we are having a wonderful time designing and making projects.<br />
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Pictured here (holding all the new fabrics) is Sarah, our Admin person at Nine Patch - Sarah is a new quilting enthusiast and chose for her first quilt - a queen sized Double Wedding Ring. Not a faint heart that's for sure. <br />
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Every Christmas my family does a jig-saw puzzle - it's the only time of year that my cutting table is completely cleared off. This year my brother Thomas, and his son Michaeljohn helped a great deal - as did Xiao Yun, my sister-in-law who took this picture.<br />
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