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Palm Beach Quilting – a quilt shop review

February 4, 2016 by beneaththestitches Leave a Comment

Another review in my series of shop review. This time for Palm Beach Quilting. This store is located on an industrial estate and is not too far from my place but has taken me ages to organise myself to get there for the review.       So for the basics Address    7/2 Industry Boulevard, Carrum … [Read more…]

Posted in: Outings/Shows Tagged: observation, shop review

#WIP – work in progress (link up with saint cardigan)

January 31, 2016 by beneaththestitches 1 Comment

  I saw that Catherine of Saint Cardigan was having a link up about current WIPs and creative processes. I am in! Her blog, by the way, is beautiful and inspirational definitely check it out. “The creative process consists of six working phases – inspiration, clarification, distillation, perspiration, evaluation and incubation. During a particular piece … [Read more…]

Posted in: Hexagons, WIPs Tagged: creative process, EPP, newhexagon, planner, rosettes, WIP

Favourite EPP notions

January 30, 2016 by beneaththestitches Leave a Comment

We all love notions, I often have a good wander around shops just looking at little gadgets and notions to see what is new or interesting. Obviously, for patchwork a ruler, rotary cutter and a cutting mat are all must haves but there are little things that make things easier or more fun and those … [Read more…]

Posted in: notions Tagged: EPP, lists, tools

Fabric Frolic Bus

January 24, 2016 by beneaththestitches Leave a Comment

On Sunday 17th January I boarded a bus with around 50 other women to take part in a Fabric Frolic. What is a fabric frolic? It is an event organised in Melbourne where from the 15th – 23rd of January each year there is a shop hop organised taking in seven shops. The fabric frolic … [Read more…]

Posted in: Outings/Shows Tagged: beautiful things, creative, happy, observation, outings, patchwork, shop review, travel

Using a Rotary Cutter

January 14, 2016 by beneaththestitches Leave a Comment

So as a newbie you quickly realise that everyone uses rotary cutters and mats it is MUST. But how do you use them? Firstly you must keep in mind that it is basically a rolling razor cutter and it is therefore extremely sharp. I have seen a few injuries through the hospital involving rotary cutters … [Read more…]

Posted in: Skills, Tools Tagged: quilting, skills, tools

Instagram January Challenge

January 10, 2016 by beneaththestitches Leave a Comment

I am taking part in another Instagram challenge. I have blogged before about how much I LOVE Instagram. I really enjoy sharing creativeness and sharing moments all captured with a quick snap on your camera phone. You can take it to another level and take fancy photos and style them, but I prefer the less … [Read more…]

Posted in: Instagram, Lists, Planner Tagged: beautiful things, creative, instagram, lists, photos, planner

Reducing or enlarging quilt blocks using a photocopier

January 7, 2016 by beneaththestitches Leave a Comment

In order to reduce and enlarge quilt blocks using the photocopier, you need to use a calculator/proportional scale to reduce or enlarge you quilt block patterns to fit your project. You need to know the size of the finished block that you would like to have in your quilt. You also need to know the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Calculators Tagged: calculator, tools

A new year – 2016

January 2, 2016 by beneaththestitches Leave a Comment

HAPPY 2016! A new year is always so fresh and sparkly – a clean fresh slate to start over, carry on with the good and move away from the bad. A new chance to get things right. There is a great anticipation of how our lives/lifestyles will change in 2016 if we just put the … [Read more…]

Posted in: About me, Lists Tagged: blog, creative, happy, WIP, writing

Why I Blog

December 27, 2015 by beneaththestitches Leave a Comment

Now just imagine how many posts there must have been on WordPress.com blogs in 2014. Actually, you don’t have to, because they gave that number too. 555,782,547. That’s over 1.5 million per day with 47 million published from mobile devices. There isn’t data available for 2015 yet and of course, there are many other blogging … [Read more…]

Posted in: About me Tagged: blog, happy, hobby, observation, skills, thinking, writing

I love this #

December 11, 2015 by beneaththestitches Leave a Comment

There is something super cool happening in the quilting community on Instagram. You really should check out the #getyouraussiequiltywish (if you are in Australia) or #getyourquiltywishesgranted (if you are in the US). It is so easy to participate. IG quilters are posting a wish for a pattern, a fabric, scraps or a colourway. Other others … [Read more…]

Posted in: Instagram Tagged: #, happy, instagram, quilting
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