http://www.koiwabiru.com this is about making and doing Sat, 24 Apr 2010 08:12:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sometimes when making things - or assisting in creation, you don't really have a lot of control. In making nice things for my house, the nicest things I can assist in making is cut flowers for the house. Although they are a tiny little thing that your eyes wouldn't really notice terribly ... http://www.koiwabiru.com/?p=124 There are a stack of wonderful cross based quilts around the blogosphere at the moment. Jacquie's quilt is made from the Common Threads Quilting Bee is gorgeous with its wonderful shades of red and white - the differently sized combinations look so thoughtful and considered, but not fussy. The other pleasure ... http://www.koiwabiru.com/?p=123 After a couple of weeks of piecing in time snatched from chores and work, and after a lot of swearing when quilting, I finished a birthday present for a friend. Hope you love it Kirsty! http://www.koiwabiru.com/?p=122 Sometimes the internet and I are great friends - it shows me beautiful inspiring things that people do and make and wonderful things that happen. Sometimes, the internet shows me horrific things, and sometimes the internet tells me fibs. One fib is the fib about 'you too can make a beautiful unlumpy, ... http://www.koiwabiru.com/?p=121 With the weather so appalling in Melbourne, by turns demonically hot and cool with rain in suburban typhoons, I have been spending quite a lot of time inside and sewing. This jag of sewing has astonished my little bottom of the line Brother who has insisted that enough is enough ... http://www.koiwabiru.com/?p=120 Working without a pattern gives you a tremendous amount of freedom - but if you are making it up as you go along, and if you flit obsessively through the flickr pools of modern quilts, the Tokyo Quilt show and anything amandajean makes  gain inspiration easily, you can tend to ... http://www.koiwabiru.com/?p=119 The quilt continues to grow in odd leaps ... The string section [the strung section??] has been joined to some indigo that will be off to one side [as I am putting another half width of the bean fabric next to that to make it wide enough for the bed. Here is ... http://www.koiwabiru.com/?p=118 After a very long winter of doing not much crafty, and a lot worky, I have had a bit of a spring clean of the craft room and been inspired to make. Some of the gorgeous string quilts around the blogosphere and around flickr are just too delectable to not ... http://www.koiwabiru.com/?p=117 In my life, there is no more passionate, painful or productive relationship than the one that I have with with my hot glue gun. While I have a content and happy marriage with a human male, my glue gun and I are drawn together and fight one another like Buttercup ... http://www.koiwabiru.com/?p=116 After a perilous journey over land and sea, from a teetering pile of washing, on a ironing board in the suburbs to a workplace near the city - what would an explorer find? [Or more to the point - in a malnourished flickr account on the wired ...] Perhaps some pretty, ... http://www.koiwabiru.com/?p=115